DeLay offered this response: “These things take time and they take a long time, and some people get weary of the constant barrage that we see in the media.
“You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard as Iraq is held to, nobody’d go to Houston, because all this reporting coming out of the local press in Houston is violence, murders, robberies, deaths on the highways,” DeLay said.
Yes, except for the liberal media coverage, Houston and Baghdad are very similar. Only Houston doesn’t have the daily suicide bombings. And it has electricity more than a few hours a day. And has functioning water and sewer. And a functioning government.
Were it not for the above you’d have a hard time telling one from the other.