U.S. HOMICIDES RIVAL WAR'S DEATH TOLL

Though the United States has declared an end to its major assult on the government of Saddam Hussien, loyalists to the old regime have continued to menace the clean- up and rebuilding operations of the coalition. These parasites have suddenly found themselves living worse off than the poor wretched common people of Iraq that they had formerly dominated. Hiding underground, unable to work and secure a way to meet a good living standard for their families, they have reverted to the obstruction of peace by cowardly dressing in civilian's clothing and setting booby traps and snares throughout the country to try and derail any chance of hope for the new Iraq. They know they are done, washed up through, finished. So, with their backs against the wall and all hope lost, they have still decided not to go down without one last fight.
What a sad bunch they are too. Resorting to attacks on the Red Cross, new young police recruits, innocent school children, hotels, with their suicide missions. Yes they have successfully pulled off some of their dastardly deeds and have even managed to achieve their goal of maming and even murdering quite a few people. To date some two hundred have been killed since the cease fire.
To some degree they have also managed to pull off their ultimate goal. Which is to to intimidate and strike fear into people who are trying to unite against them and create a decent life for themselves and their families. Even some clear back here at home in the good ole U.S.A. are beginning to get somewhat antsy about the situation. How quickly they seem to lose confidence. Even after they saw how rapidly their brave men and women moved right in and tossed out Saddam and arrested so many of his devlish emps. They witnessed the statues of Saddam being toppled over in the streets of Baghdad and the Iraqi people so jubilantly celebrating the great fall of their oppressors.
Some of the folks in England then had the gumption to create a statue of our beloved president, George W. Bush and make a mockery of that most memorable day of a beginning of new freedom. They are just about as bad as the loyalists of the former Saddam regime, trying to fool people into thinking that they are just regular citizens. The people in London who were demonstrating wanted the world to think that they were average Joe citizens of the United Kingdom too but we all knew who they really were, those "Bloody Commies" left over from the old Bolshevik Party.
But as each day passes and more and more parish, more and more we hear it. "Bring in the United Nations. We need more peace keeping forces. Our mission is failing," and on and on.
Now lets take a look at some of the facts... Since the war began, somewhere around March 19th 2003, there have been 505 confirmed coalition deaths. 434 of those have been American, 53 British, 17 Italian, and 1 Polish.
Now some 200 of these casualties have come since the major offensive by the coalition was declared ended. Hence the call to usher in the United Nations to help keep the peace.
Now lets take a look at just one of our dear states in these united States. Lets have a peek at Ohio, since thats my home state. No, lets not even look at the entire state, lets just have a look at it's three major cities. I like to call them "The 3 C's" Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus.
Looking back on this year from 01/01/03 to 06/07/03 (a 21 week peroid of time) Here is the number of homicides or out right murders that took place. Cincinnati had 30, Cleveland had 35, and Columbus (poor ole "Cow Town") had the most with a wooping 47 for a total of 112 killings in the 21 week period.
Now for a look at the entire year of 2002. Cincinnati had 66, Columbus had 81, and Cleveland had 89 for a total in the year 2002 of 236 random killings in only 3 cities of our (peaceful, law abiding) United States.Throw in Indianapolis and it would bring the total for the 4 cities to 319 random killings for the year 2002. Now mind you I am only talking about 4 cities here. These are not traffic related deaths or drug overdoses. These are out right killings, homicides, slayings, with guns, knives, or what have you. What would this death toll be raised to if we added in every large city and small town? Maybe we should invite the U.N. to come over here and tame our cities and communities in this country before signing on in Iraq. Or better yet, why aren't some of our good and brave soldiers not out patrolling on Main Street U.S.A. to keep crime here to a minimum? Where are the people crying out to help us here?
We really do need to stop worring so much about whats going on over in Iraq and let our troops do their jobs. They are doing a wonderful job as compared to the job we are doing here at home for ourselves. Are we too busy looking through the screens of our television sets to see whats going on over in Iraq that we have no time to look out the windows of our own back doors? It seems that all we mainly do here is allow the terrorist people to accomplish what they have set out to do and that is to do nothing more than strike fear into our hearts and minds and fear my friends, breeds nothing but failure.
To view a list of all our casualties of war and all the latest updates, please go to: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/