The comparisons are to show the exaggerations that the MSM has been reporting as truths. Are there really 20-30 mutilated bodies turned up everyday or is it propaganda? Are there 100 "innocent" Iraqis killed everyday or is it 45 Innocent and 55 terrorist? The difference makes a huge physiological impression on Americans. For months now all the MSM has been claiming or insinuating is there is a massive "civil war" going on costing the lives of hundreds a day but 2 days after the new years we get that it's half of all the violence they've previously claimed. In this article the AP is claiming that based on these numbers they've been under-counting in their reporting which is the most laughable thing I've heard ever from the them. If they would have been telling the truth to start with then they wouldn't have to play the word game with the real facts.
This is such BS. Everyone with half a brain knows that at least - AT LEAST - 300,000 innocent women and children have died in Iraq. Why, after all, would Michael Moore and Barbara Streisand (BS) lie?
Of course all who believe the 300,000 figure are just as described above: Half a brain.