Rumsfeld Lie on Baghdad Murder Rate - EXPOSED

[wyethwire]

An AP reporter actually bothered to track down a murder rate in Baghdad by counting bodies with bullet holes in the Baghdad morgue. Meanwhile, the Secretary of Defense and a "respected" academic hold to the time honored tradition of pulling numbers out of their ass.

To recap:

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

[belab13]

1. Worse than morally bankrupt, Rumsfeld is pathologically evil.

but I'm sure everyone here already knows this.

[dansolo]

2. He was talking about murders of Americans

Iraqi murders don't count.

[wyethwire]

3. John Lott wasn't

John Lott claimed the murder rate in Baghdad was lower than the murder rate in Washington.

He had no research to back it up.

A reporter did his homework and found out it was a lie.

[wellst0nev0ter]

4. "Cop Killings", Not Murders

Because that's what soldier killings represent, right? Compare 42 American deaths in a month to 116 cop killings in DC.

116 cop killings IN HE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE CITY!!!!!!!!!!!! :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Sweetpea]

5. God knows we don't know the scores that are being settled

etc....or just desparate people trying to survive.

[wyethwire]

6. But John Lott

Claims that more guns lead to less crime in IRaq