A Republican congressman representing rural southern Michigan is taking heat for saying that most of Iraq is at least as under control as Detroit is.
Freshman Rep. Tim Walberg of Tipton didn't quite say Detroit was a war zone. He said most of Iraq "is reasonably under control, at least as well as Detroit."
"...on Wednesday, searching houses in the expanding security crackdown, while at least 33 apparent victims of sectarian killings were found dumped across Baghdad.
The bodies of two policemen, handcuffed and showing signs of torture, were found in Diwaniyah, the site of recent clashes 80 miles south of Baghdad.
The bodies of 32 people were found shot dead on Tuesday in different districts of Baghdad, police said.
Bombings killed at least 18 other people across Iraq yesterday, authorities said.
Iraqi police found the decapitated bodies of nine policemen with their hands bound and bearing signs of torture in a town near the city of Ramadi-(3/17)
A total of 19 bodies were found shot dead on Saturday in different districts of Baghdad, police said.
The bodies of two people, shot and tortured, were found on Saturday (3/17) in the town of Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
Police found 30 dead bodies throughout Baghdad. Two dead bodies were found on the eastern side of the city (Risafa) and 28 dead bodies were found on the western side (Karkh). The following is the number of dead bodies per neighborhood.
Those 145 murders above cover a four-day period and are only the murders reported in Iraq.
Estimate of Iraqi Deaths Since June 7, 2006 - 17,971
In 2006, Detroit, Michigan had 411 murders.
The Congressman from Michigan is only 17,560 off, and that's comparing a full 12 months of murders in Detroit to a little over nine months in Iraq.
If you extrapolate those nine months of murders in Iraq it comes to 24,000 in a one year period.
And, I haven't heard or read where any of those murders in Detroit that the victims were tortured by having holes drilled into them.
Walberg's comparison would be laughable if it wasn't so despicable.
Update-Iraq's Sunni deputy prime minister was wounded Friday in a suicide bombing near the heavily fortified Green Zone. Eight other people were killed, including one of his advisers, police said.There have been no reported IED assassination attempts on Detroit's Deputy Mayor as of this posting.
