[jaykay]

As a resident of the Detroit area, I can tell you that in the city itself there were 102 homicides in the first 3 months of 2004 and that most of them were drug/gang/other crime related and aside from a handful of innocents caught in crossfires, these deaths were not tragedies but predictable consequences of violent behavior.

It doesn't seem right to compare them to soldiers who died defending America or even mention them in the same breath.

[freebilly]

It doesn't seem right to compare them to soldiers who died defending America or even mention them in the same breath.

No, it doesn't seem right, but when the left starts shouting about American deaths in Iraq it's good to have some facts about the "Fallujahs" of America....

[Robert A Cook PE]

Numbers.

See, the liberals are emphasizing (exaggerating!) for political purposes the relatively few deaths in Iraq so they can destroy Bush.

In the meantime, more Americans (by far!) are getting killed every year (by their fellow liberal voters/felons in the inner cities!) than are getting killed by our sworn enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan.