...while looking at this lovely photograph:
New Orleans, as of last week's march on City Hall, had recorded nine murders this year...a quick scan of today's headlines seems to indicate at least two more homicides...eleven, perhaps more, for 2007, and it's just the middle of January.
Yesterday police found thirty bodies in Baghdad. From what I've read or seen recently, that's a slow day.
Let me be CLEAR, by the way: New Orleans IS NOT OK. Eleven, maybe more, murders in the space of a couple of weeks--in a city half the size it used to be--might be the most visible sign of trouble, although it is not the only sign. Anybody who wants to can STILL drive through obscenely large parts of the city where it genuinely looks like a bomb went off...this morning. Basic city services that the rest of us take for granted have not been completely restored. Just making groceries can be an ordeal.
No, New Orleans IS NOT OK.
What I am saying is, given that New Orleans IS NOT OK, Baghdad must truly be a living hell. If the Crescent City is slowly bleeding to death, the capital of Mesopotamia has a severed artery, and blood is gushing like, well, oil from Rumallah...while a little man, with an even smaller brain, ignores the monster sized mess...both over here AND over there. Hard work? Hell, he doesn't have the first fucking clue.
Again, how can ANYONE expect this administration to fix Iraq when they either can't or won't fix New Orleans?
I keep hoping someone will ask him this...and I'd be interested to see "Mr. Thick Skin"'s reaction.
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