Baltimore is just like Iraq!

Wow, I thought we'd seen the end of the "X-American city is more violent than Baghdad" wingnut meme, but Putz dusts it off.

Reader Charles Rutt emails: "Obviously, we need to just leave Baltimore. We’ve been there for almost 200 years and still don’t have it under control. I think we should cut off funding to the city to teach them that we mean business and be out of there by the end of summer. I’ve got 29 Senators who agree with me…. "

Meanwhile, in the Baltimore of the Middle East,

Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a series of bombings and gunbattles across Iraq, the U.S. military announced Saturday.