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- kencyber, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46Yeah, that would be true if you take away the religious and ethnic tensions, corrupt police, and 14,000+ murders that occurred this year alone.
- RamanujanRedux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38The House of Representatives is full of insane jackasses.
~Jon Stewart` - kuj007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Can't wait for the Muppets to take it...
- hawkeye17, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32This moron is Exhibit A of why America needs a change. I'd love to see King say that to the families of Iraq Vets.
- TheSavant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26This guy is insane. I've been there. There is no place in Iraq that can be compared to New York. Take New Orleans right after Katrina and put it somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Arizona. That's Baghdad.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Memo to self: stay the ***** away from Manhattan.
- FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Isn't Bagdhad the same area where there was an article from last week entitled "Choose the wrong car and you DIE"? Where, every time you are driving, you have to worry that if you take the wrong route through a US Blockade, our troops MIGHT just blow the car into the next century?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Yeah, I remember the last time I was in Manhattan with my team. We were taking small arms fire from this bombed out apartment building and had to call in Spooky for a fire mission. You shoulda seen them light up that dump! What's really a hoot is to sneak up behind the bomb disposal guys in the chow line with a paper bag and pop it BOOM! The look on their face is priceless. Later we went out on patrol, lost one truck to an IED, raided some houses looking for insurgents, then did some shopping and hit some of the clubs.
Hell, yeah, Baghdad is just like Manhattan.
(keep in mind this twit chairs the House Homeland Security committee...hopefully not much longer) - megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20This is the stupidist ***** thing I've heard anybody say in at least 16 hours, and the last thing that I heard whose stupidity rivaled this also just happened to come from the mouth of a politician. In other words, I believe we may have unearthed a conspiracy.
- deanlowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Peter King's been hang out in the wrong parts of Manhattan, the parts with car b0mbings and death squads.
- halavais, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21The troops being present and about 80 people being killed every day. I'm in Manhattan, waiting for my wife to arrive home. I have no worries that she will be killed by a suicide bomber or a trigger-happy guardsman. Are there stores and traffic? Of course, it's a city. But it is also one of the most dangerous places on the planet at the moment.
- TheSavant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I don't think it is an exaggeration. In fact, I think I understated things. The piles of garbage, decaying bodies of animals everywhere, flattened building and the look of fear in the people's eyes. I was wrong. It is far worse than New Orleans.
- TheSavant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Baghdad is a city in Iraq. Maybe YOU should pay attention before you call people "dumb".
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Send him on over!
- concept, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14im not a democrat, but damn, he is nuts to compare a war zone to an area in the USA
- dave1021, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"It is very much, for natural citizens, a "daily routine"-type place."
Where are you posting from, soldier?
From Yerass? What province is that? - toasty168, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13yeah sure, when you've got you're own entourage of US military, people will shut the ***** up. Let's see him walk around by himself.
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Can't wait for him to take his whole family there for vacation.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Iraq is a country, not a county."
Although if the US sticks around much longer... - zeiben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12For a republican, Manhattan probably IS very similar to Baghdad. Everybody there thinks you're out to screw them and just can't wait till you're gone
- hobbers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"Yeah, that would be true if you take away the religious and ethnic tensions, corrupt police, and 14,000+ murders that occurred this year alone."
Wait, are you talking about Manhattan or Baghdad? - mochaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11This is just one more evidence of hoe the GOP does not want to recognized the fact that Iraq is in the middle of bloody civil WAR!
- Itazura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Ill go ahead and tell my friend dodging sniper fire and grenades its really just fireworks and confetti. Manhattan my ass, he should be fired.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Well, when are you going to Baghdad for a ***** holiday? Come on, put your money where your mouth is, *****. Prove it.
- darrin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Iraq is a country, not a county.
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Plus car bombs.
- gardnert1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9There's a civil war with car bombs, murders, and assassinations in Manhattan? Where have i been?????
- Anpheus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14The above should read: "More like Escape from L.A."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Reporters don't even leave the Green Zone. Likely never leave the hotel.
- observer1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9If Baghdad were like Manhattan then our troops could come home.
- DyDx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Are you high? Or just incredibly stupid?
- realyst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The problem is Senators tend to be followed about tightly by armed guards, and take heavily regulated walks across highly secured areas for the least amount of time as possible.
They also don't announce their presence.
His experiences would be like claiming Cuba is the richest country on Earth based on a nice trip he had to a resort hotel. In which case the naysayer would probably still be in a better position to judge using that which he learnt word-of-mouth and via education or even media exposure(when its bias isn't too skewered) - malfourmed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Manhattan has a population of around 1.6 milliion. New York a population of around 8 million.
Baghdad in 2003 had a population of around 5.8 million. Iraq a population of about 26 million.
If NYC has 400 deaths, then the equivalent rate for the whole of Iraq should be around 1,300, not 14,000. - cheekybastard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Since when did Condi Rice have to make an unannounced visit to Manhattan? http://www.google.com/search?as_q=unannounced+visit&num=100 I guess its hard to see straight when you spin so much.
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I like how he concedes every once in a while there is a car bomb, but then everyone goes back to their daily lives. Except for, you know, the people who triggered the bomb, the people who died in the subsequent explosion, and the families of both sides. Just like ***** Manhattan, eh.
- heavensblade23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Like being in Manhattan where there's roughly 75-100 violent deaths a day, maybe.
- deanlowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Should ask him how the strip clubs rate in both cities.
- reticulate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7...Driving around in your heavily armoured Suburban, surrounded by bodyguards with automatic weapons.
- mike_p, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's called damage control... Although the Foley scandal has nothing to do with other Republicans, it's done enough to further damage the Republican image (amazing in itself). This guy is out of his mind to make comments like that... it's not even close enough to call it comparing apples and oranges.
- garyh84, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Crap, hit the digg down when I meant to hit the digg up... man, I wish there was a way to take it back :
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Being in Baghdad is just like being in Manhattan...about 20-30 minutes after the second plane hit."
- DeadLikeMe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Except all the death and mayham is from those crazy middle eastern taxi drivers
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think he's been fooled by the Taxi Drivers with New York accents.
- realyst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Okay, Mr. King. Go right on ahead and visit. Make sure you bring lots of American money and wear a goofy "I[heart]BD" t-shirt. Walk around a lil bit. Take in the sites and sounds. And if you're still ***** alive at the end of all that, THEN I'll believe you.
Oh yeah, and tell people you're a member of Bush's party(they probably don't know what a Republican is). I'm sure they'll greet you as a liberator. - lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6...If being in Manhattan is like being in Baghdad.
- fahrenheitlf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Quote from link below - "The Green Zone is certainly a world unto itself. Women in shorts and T shirts jog down broad avenues, and the Pizza Inn does a brisk business from the parking lot of the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy. Near the Green Zone Bazaar, Iraqi kids hawk pornographic DVDs to soldiers. Sheik Fuad Rashid, the U.S.-appointed imam of the local mosque, dresses like a nun, dyes his hair platinum blond and claims that Mary Mother of Jesus appeared to him in a vision (hence the getup). On any given night, residents can listen to karaoke, play badminton or frequent one of several rowdy bars, including an invitation-only speakeasy run by the CIA. At the Green Zone Cafe—where contractors toting 9mm pistols smoke hookahs while an Iraqi drummer provides entertainment—a sign on the door warns customers to empty their weapons before consuming alcohol."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5973273/site/newsweek/
I might agree that the Green Zone area of Baghdad is similar to Manhattan. This is not indicative of the surrounding area, however. How can someone enter this area and assume the rest of the city and country are similar? - fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Jeez, I mean, you hear the jokes, but I didn't think Manhattan was really that screwed up.
- NoAccounting4me, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6From what I've heard, the freeways are more like L.A.
- hcl40u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Don't forget the occasional pools of blood, gotta watch out for them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Before the war, being in Baghdad was like being in Manhattan. A lot of Americans tend to think of Iraq as a big desert with small towns, an inaccurate perception.
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