Thanks also to Janaka for this:


501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the
beginning of the war - so far


0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the
Nazi surrender to the Allies in May 1945


0: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from
Iraq that the Bush administration has allowed to be
photographed


0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has
attended for soldiers killed in Iraq


100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or
Vice-President Dick Cheney in 2003


10 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took
to the streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq,
setting an all-time record for simultaneous protest


9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq
each day since the invasion in March last year


1.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq
per day since hostilities began


16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the
start of war


10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi civilians killed since
the beginning of the conflict


$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to
American citizens by the end of 2003


$13 billion: Amount other countries have committed towards
rebuilding Iraq (much of it in loans) as of 24 October


36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army
since 1999


92%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to
drinkable water a year ago


60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to
drinkable water today


1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam
Hussein a pair of golden spurs


45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March
2003 that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September
attacks on the US


$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that
Bush became President in 2001


$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal
year for 2003


1st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in
United States history


$1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national
debt increases each day


10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held
since beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at
this point in his administration, and Bill Clinton 33


1st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas
emissions per capita


$113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000
campaign, setting a record in American electoral history


$130 million: Amount raised for Bush's re-election
campaign so far


$200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to
raise in 2004


$40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among
the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 2003


28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the
second longest holiday of any president in US history
(Record holder: Richard Nixon)


13: Number of vacation days the average American worker
receives each year


3: Number of children convicted of capital offences
executed in the US in 2002. America is only country openly
to acknowledge executing children


1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more
prisoners (152) than any governor in modern US history


2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs
during the three years of the Bush administration


1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in
December. Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000


1st: This administration is on its way to becoming the
first since 1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an
overall loss of jobs during its complete term in office


80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed


55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before
the war


40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which
the US is responsible


$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's
original 16-person cabinet


88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less
than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003
cut in capital gains and dividends taxes


$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are
expected to enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in
capital gains and dividends taxes


$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001


$116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save
each year in taxes


44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's
economic growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy


1st: George W Bush became the first American president to
ignore the Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow
inspectors access to US-held prisoners of war


9: Number of members of Bush's defense policy board who
also sit on the corporate board of, or advise, at least
one defense contractor


$300 million: Amount cut from the federal program that
provides subsidies to poor families so they can heat their
homes


$1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel
in April 2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on
Iraq


58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has
opened to road building, logging and drilling


90%: Percentage of American citizens who said they
approved of the way George Bush was handling his job as
president when asked on 26 September, 2001


53%: Percentage of American citizens who approved of the
way Bush was handling his job as president when asked on
16 January, 2004


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