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[seabass]

You'd think but not even close. Baltimore has 650,000 people and had 269 murders in 2005 or 22/month. Since the US population in Iraq is only 150,000 though or 77% smaller than Baltimore, you need to reduce the murder rate by the same figure which brings it to 5/month. In other words, the murder rate of americans in Iraq is 800% higher than the most crime ridden cities in the US. And that's using the lowest monthly casualty figures since the war began.