"Jeff" wrote
OK Vito, why don't you explain to us how it makes sense to compare the
: monthly rates in Iraq to the annual rate in DC?

Let me explain it so even you can understand. The author compared a 22-month
(not monthly) period in Iraq to a 22 month period in DC in order to make a
humorous point - that we should pull out of DC. It's a joke, dummy! Who
cares if the numbers are exact in a joke.

: ... the fact that handguns deaths are only a portion of these numbers.

OK, I see you forgot your pills again ......