I saw a segment on Fox News Channel (where else would I see this—certainly not on the state-run CBC) the other day with U.S. Congressman Steve King that instantly stuck with me. It was still with me this afternoon so I thought I better put some of what he said down for you to enjoy.
He did some figuring, and from that figuring, made a speech to the House of Representatives on May 03, 2006. I tore these figures out of his speech, which you can read in full and for full context here. He’s been wildly criticized for these figures, but nobody has been able to refute them with any success as far as I can tell—merely with more leftist pacifist liberal rhetoric and obfuscation and deceit.
Iraq – 27.51 deaths per 100,000 per year
Venezuela, 31.61 violent deaths per 100,000
Jamaica, 32.40 violent deaths per 100,000
South Africa. It jumps all the way up to 49.60.
Colombia, 61.78 violent deaths per 100,000
Washington, D.C.; 45.9 deaths per 100,000
Detroit, 41.8
Baltimore, 37.7
Atlanta, 34.9
St. Louis, 31.4
Oakland California, 26.1
New Orleans before Katrina, 53.1
I looked it up as best I had time for, and Canada comes in at 29.1. That was in the 90s. I suspect it might be lower today.
Here’s some of his (long!) speech:
Mr. Speaker, I would point out that if it is intolerable to face that kind of violence as a percentage of the population in Iraq that is unsustainable and that somehow we should pull out of there and wash our hands and give up or cut and run or maybe split the country up into three different sections, and then imagine what kind of violence we would have if we pitted those three factors against each other. But, instead, I will submit that we are being treated with a relentless drum beat of television violence in Iraq that, even though it is honestly represented in those significant instances, we don’t have our television cameras lined up on the emergency rooms in the United States. We don’t have them lined up here in the emergency rooms in Washington, D.C. or Detroit or Baltimore or New Orleans or Atlanta or St. Louis.
[…] Mr. Speaker, I think this makes the point very well that we can be delivered a constant drum beat of violence, and then we begin to think that it is an intolerable violence and something that is such a high level that it can’t continue, that a civil society just simply can’t sustain that kind of an onslaught, when, truthfully, the violent level in Iraq is well less than half of the violent level in Colombia, and they sustain themselves although not so well. Slightly higher than half the rate of South Africa; they sustain themselves.
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And thanks to PTBC reader and constant info supplier Mister Kim for sending me a bunch of pictures that Canadian and American liberal print media never, ever put on their front pages. There’s thousands of pictures just like this one (below)—usually sent from Iraq by Iraqis or U.S. or coalition soldiers—not the media. The subject on Mister Kim’s pass-it-on email was: “PHOTOS TOO GRAPHIC FOR MEDIA”
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