True, true, true. About 50,000 people are killed in the US during criminal acts each year (thankfully, the vast majority are criminals themselves). I guess that makes America a place where body counts are greater than Iraq while at the same time the bad guys are getting killed at a much lesser rate. Seems to me that the MSM should pull up stakes and get yonder to a place of greater safety.
Actually, deaths by homicide in 2004 (last year with full data) were about 17,000, but your point is valid. We have more Americans murdered every three months than have been killed in Iraq.
But then, facts don't matter. The MSM wants the public to believe that we are losing, and they are succeeding. Articles like this are designed to help.