just like chicken

from atrios, comes word that, according to Tom DeLay, Iraq is just like Houston (with all of its attendant violence), and it’s about time the liberal media grasped this essential truth.
If Iraq really poses no more danger than Houston, DeLay would be well served to show the press just how silly they’re being by taking his family on a summer vacation to Iraq. To lend weight to his profound analogy, he could do the whole thing sans the $1,000/day security guards that the liberal media has found it necessary to hire when reporters risk their lives to cover the situation there. I’ve never been to Houston, but I’m relatively comfortable in asserting that Houston Chronicle reporters don’t require the same.
Maybe the mayors of Baghdad and Houston could have one of those public ‘all-in-fun’ challenges, like those Mayors engage in prior to Super Bowls, only they could compare car bomb death tolls at the end of a given month. Houston would wager a NASA space helmet, maybe, and Baghdad would counter with free ride to the airport (life insurance not included).