Eye-Rack Safer Than Chicago And Detroit?
Apparently, that is what the Republican Representative Tim Walberg from Michigan said just yesterday. Perhaps he won't mind telling the U.N. Secretary General that highly relevant fact:
BAGHDAD, March 22 — Like most of the bombs that insurgents launch into the heavily fortified Green Zone, the mortar shell that exploded in the crook of a tree on the compound’s eastern edge at 3:40 p.m. local time today caused some structural damage and no casualties. But this one carried a particularly resonant message about the continuing violence that plagues the capital.It struck about 250 feet away from the riverside residence of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. At that moment, Mr. Maliki and the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, were holding a news conference inside the residence to mark Mr. Ban’s first visit to Iraq. In another room were gathered many of Iraq’s top political officials.
. . .The deafening explosion startled the secretary general, who momentarily ducked his head as windows shattered outside and flecks of plaster drifted down from the ceiling. Mr. Maliki barely shifted.
Putz.