Baghdad USA

It would be nice to see some of the politicians, particularly the democrats so fixated on the shortcomings of the war effort in Iraq than they are in their owns states to pay more attention to the problems facing their American cities like once proud and now sadly hurting Motor City Detroit MI.

This is a common tactic to take away from their own local failings and problems by focusing on the war as opposed to the wars going on right here on America's streets, done by passing useless, time wasting war resolutions as the Detroit city council incredulously did a while back while their own city rots away, as well as cities in California are so often doing. The Chicago city council here itself did the same thing a while back, but at least the city is also focused on local crime issues a little more judging from the same crime statistics cited in this article below.

Detroit Declared Most Dangerous US City:

My Way News - "DETROIT (AP) - In another blow to the Motor City's tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation's most dangerous city, according to a private research group's controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics. The study drew harsh criticism even before it came out. The American Society of Criminology launched a pre-emptive strike Friday, issuing a statement attacking it as 'an irresponsible misuse' of crime data. The 14th annual 'City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America' was published by CQ Press, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc. It is based on the FBI's Sept. 24 crime statistics report." continued

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