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tjohn
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Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2155
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 6:51 am: |     |
A few numbers that give some perspective on current U.S. and
international affairs.
TOPIC: NUMBERS
505: Number of American soldiers who have died during the invasion
and occupation of Iraq so far (as of January 23, 2004)
232: Number who died in combat
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
13: Number of meetings between Bush and Tony Blair since he became
President
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
2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since
coming into the White House
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
32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not
precision-guided
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
$23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as
of 19 January 2004
1st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year
(1.57 million) was set in 2002
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 (Recordholder: 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
221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts
took effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000
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
9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 2003
80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed
55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war
43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002
130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the
United Nations) with an American military presence
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
700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated
in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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
+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in
poverty
1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending
was greater than the one the previous spring
54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately
elected to his post
1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40
years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not at
federal level
9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on
the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor
35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military
assistance after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from
prosecution before the International Criminal Court
$300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme 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
200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted to downgrade or weaken
29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of
a whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured or
become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the Pentagon
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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United STRAWBERRY of America
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1860
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 8:53 am: | |
53 % of American citizens who approved of the way Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 16 January, 2004
This is the bottom line...Thanks for the info.This of course as the Dems take the stage. Watch this number rise much higher once the Dems finally pick a candidate.
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ashear
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Username: Ashear
Post Number: 935
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 10:01 am: | |
45% - Percentage of Americans who would vote for Kerry if election were held today
44% - Percentage who would vote for Bush
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Presidential_Tracking_Poll.htm |
United STRAWBERRY of America
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1866
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 10:06 am: | |
These type of polling numbers are quite common when one party is involved in a hotly debated campaign.
Similar numbers were offered in 84, & 92. As we now know, both of those elections were landslides for the incumbent. Similar to what we will see in 04.
Once Bush faces off against Kerry, we will see the Republican candidate's numbers skyrocket.
Sorry to burst your bubble, buddy boy.
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JJC
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Username: Mercury
Post Number: 194
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 10:24 am: | |
505 Americans killed. No WMD or Al Qaeda links. Try your "polling numbers" arguement on a soldier's mother / father / wife / husband / children. This is not about a hotly debated campaign, it is abour sending troops into harms way recklessly (US was unprepared) and needlessly (no imminent or even near term threat). |
United STRAWBERRY of America
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1870
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 10:41 am: | |
yawn
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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey
Post Number: 514
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 11:00 am: | |
1992 was not a landslide for the incumbent. |
United STRAWBERRY of America
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1874
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 11:08 am: | |
I meant 96..sorry
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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 442
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 11:23 am: | |
How about this number:
" There's no need for triggers if you have responsible budgeting, and this tax relief plan is responsible in a responsible budget. You know, there's $5.6 trillion in surplus, and that's a very conservative estimate."
Andrew Card, Meet The Press Feb, 2001
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cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 815
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 11:46 am: | |
Or this recent one -- the Medicare Drug bill was undersold as costing 400B, when it's 1/3 more on top of that. Hey -- were you surprised? Where was the intelligence on that one -- both in predicting the costs as well as people in this country actually supporting such theft? Dems say it's that high cuz it's a handout to corporations, and if they could eliminate that part of the bill they'd go on to spend even MORE. Damn the deficits, keep the entitlements coming. A pox on both Houses.
How many died in the invasion and liberation of Europe? or just France, to narrow it down? Was it more than 500? Just curious. Maybe if we could pull a Dresden bombing campaign and kill vastly more Iraqis, things would have been as quiet as they were in Germany post WW2 and it's rebuilding.
I'm also surprised that given how outraged members and families of our armed forces should be at Bush for misleading them, female enrollment at the scandal plagued Air Force Academy is up 14%. And they cited patriotism as one of the causes. Go tell those families they're stupid and their vote shouldn't count. Why would they support the monster in the Oval Office anyway? |
tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2158
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 11:56 am: | |
Dresden - good example of an operation that killed a lot of civilians but did not hasten V-E Day. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 446
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 12:03 pm: | |
It's complicated and has to do with regions and incomes. See today's NYT editorial about "giver" and "taker" states for instance.
"Republicans seem to have become the new welfare party — their constituents live off tax dollars paid by people who vote Democratic. Of course, not all federal spending is wasteful. But Republicans are having their pork and eating it too. Voters in red states like Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are some of the country's fiercest critics of government, yet they're also among the biggest recipients of federal largess. Meanwhile, Democratic voters in the coastal blue states — the ones who are often portrayed as shiftless moochers — are left to carry the load."
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cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 817
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 12:06 pm: | |
The point of WW2 was if you innihilate significant numbers of civilians and troops you will quash any uprising should you invade and occupy. This last war wasn't conducted that way on purpose, and rightly so. That a small insurgency remains isn't surprising. |
tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2159
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 12:09 pm: | |
Cjc,
That statement about annihilating civilians is so German it is scary. The Germans practiced civil terror in both World Wars and it simply strengthened the resolve of the resistance. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 448
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 12:09 pm: | |
True enough. We killed hundreds of thousands during WW2 firebombing of Japan and Germany. Glad we didn't do that. |
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