August 12, 2003
Wyeth Ruthven: Fact Checker, B.S. Wrecker
My old friend and doppelganger Wyeth makes good use of his free Lexis-Nexis access today, scoring a bulls-eye on Don Rumsfeld's balderdash about Baghdad having a hunky-dory murder rate with this post:
You've got to remember that if Washington, D.C., were the size of Baghdad, we would be having something like 215 murders a month. Donald Rumsfeld, 6/19/2003
Yet, despite Iraqis owning machine guns and the country still not under control, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pointed out that Baghdad is experiencing fewer murders than Washington, D.C., where handguns are banned. John Lott, 6/26/2003
The Baghdad police don't have official crime statistics, but the number of bodies at the city's morgue says it all. Baghdad is in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave. The city morgue handled 470 gunshot deaths in July. Associated Press, 8/11/2003
Posted by Greg Greene at August 12, 2003 5:00 PM
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