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Posted at 12:40pm on Mar. 22, 2007 Iraq no worse than Detroit?
By Swoles Lament
Yesterday on a local radio show, Republican Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-7) compared the level of saftey in Iraq to that of Detroit.
from WaPo:
During an interview Monday with WILS-AM, Rep. Tim Walberg said the returning troops he has talked with "indicate to me that 80 to 85 percent, in a conservative fashion, of the country is reasonably under control, at least as well as Detroit or Chicago or any of our other big cities. That's an encouraging sign."
I'm guessing Detroit is not part of Michigan's 7th district.
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Posted at 3:58pm on Mar. 21, 2007 Another Athlete Turned [Marine]
By Swoles Lament
Jeremy Staat, a professional football player and former teammate/roommate of Pat Tillman, is heading to Iraq as one of 300 Marines in the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.
from FoxSports.com:
"The way I look at it, we're spreading freedom, and you have to support the troops and you have to support the war," Staat, 29, told KITV in Honolulu on Tuesday as he prepared to leave from Hawaii. "You can't just tell some Marine who just lost his buddy that we supported you but not the war, because in that case you're basically saying that Marine, his buddy, just died for nothing. We're one team."
It saddens me that stories like this continue to go unnoticed.
titled changed by streiff. Staat is a Marine not a soldier.