Bush by numbers
BUSH BY NUMBERS
By Graydon Carter / Independent
1005: Current US casualties in IRAQ
1: Number of Bush administration public statements on National security
issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned
al-Qa'ida.
104: Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein.
0: Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Laden in his three State of the Union addresses.
83: Number of times Bush mentioned Saddam, Iraq, or regime (as in change) in his three State of the Union addresses.
$1m Estimated value of a painting the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, received from Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States and Bush family friend.
0: Number of times Bush mentioned Saudi Arabia in his three State of the Union addresses.
79: Percentage of the 11 September hijackers who came from Saudi Arabia.
140: Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin Laden family, evacuated from United States almost immediately after 11 September.
$3,500: Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for anyone who could
confirm Bush's Alabama guard service.
600-700: Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that period.
0: Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with information about Bush's guard service.
0: Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former chairman of the Defence Policy Board, Richard Perle, and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove the main proponents of the war in Iraq served in combat (combined).
43: Percentage of the entire world's military spending that the US spends on defence. (That was in 2002, the year before the invasion of Iraq.)
1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East, gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden spurs as a gift.
2.5: Number of hours after Rumsfeld learnt that Osama bin Laden was a
suspect in the 11 September attacks that he brought up reasons to "hit"
Iraq.
10m: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets on 21
February 2003, in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, the largest
simultaneous protest in world history.
$15m: Amount of a contract awarded to an American firm to build a cement factory in Iraq.
$80,000: Amount an Iraqi firm spent to build the same factory.
2000: Year that Cheney said his policy as CEO of Halliburton oil services company was "we wouldn't do anything in Iraq".
$4.7bn: Total value of contracts awarded to Halliburton in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
92: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to potable water in late 2002.
60: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to potable water in late 2003.
0: Number of memorial services for the returned dead soldiers that Bush has attended since the beginning of the war.
$10.9m: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person cabinet.
$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet received in 2003 as a result of cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.
79: Number of Bush's initial 189 appointees who also served in his father's administration.
4.7m: Number of bankruptcies that were declared during Bush's first three years in office.
$489bn: The US trade deficit in 2003, the worst in history for a single
year.
$5.6tr: Projected national surplus forecast by the end of the decade when Bush took office in 2001.
87: Percentage of American families in April 2004 who say they have felt no benefit from Bush's tax cuts.
39: Percentage of tax cuts that will go to the top 1 per cent of American families when fully phased in.
$30,858: Amount Bush himself saved in taxes in 2003.
2.3m: Number of Americans who lost their jobs during first three Years of the Bush administration.
22m: Number of jobs gained during Clinton's eight years in office.
40: Percentage of wealth in the United States held by the richest 1 per cent of the population.
43.6m: Number of Americans without health insurance by the end of 2002 (more than 15 per cent of the population).
0: Number of times Bush mentioned global warming, clean air, clean water, pollution or environment in his 2004 State of the Union speech.
1: The rank of the United States worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas
emissions.
25: Percentage of overall worldwide carbon dioxide emissions the United
States is responsible for.
2: Percentage of the world's population that is British.
2: Percentage of the world's oil used by Britain.
5: Percentage of the world's population that is American.
25: Percentage of the world's oil used by America.
750,000: Tons of toxic waste the US military, the world's biggest polluter, generates around the world each Year.
4: Rank of the United States among countries considered to be the greatest
threats to world peace according to a 2003 Pew Global Attitudes study
(Israel, Iran, and North Korea were considered more dangerous; Iraq was
considered less dangerous).
13: Number of vacation days the average American receives each year.
28: Number of vacation days Bush took in August 2001, the month he received a 6 August Presidential Daily Briefing headed "Osama bin Laden Determined to Strike US Targets."
22: Percentage of Americans who believed in May 2003 that Saddam had used his WMDs on US forces.
85: Percentage of American young adults who cannot find Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map.
30: Percentage of American young adults who cannot find the Pacific Ocean on a map.
11: Percentage of American young adults who cannot find the United States on a map.
50m: Number of voters in total who voted for Bush in 2000.
23m: Number of Evangelicals who voted for Bush in 2000.
5: Number of states that do not use the word "evolution" in public school science courses.
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This is an edited extract from "What We've Lost", by Graydon Carter,
published by Little Brown on 9 September
By Graydon Carter / Independent
1005: Current US casualties in IRAQ
1: Number of Bush administration public statements on National security
issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned
al-Qa'ida.
104: Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein.
0: Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Laden in his three State of the Union addresses.
83: Number of times Bush mentioned Saddam, Iraq, or regime (as in change) in his three State of the Union addresses.
$1m Estimated value of a painting the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, received from Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States and Bush family friend.
0: Number of times Bush mentioned Saudi Arabia in his three State of the Union addresses.
79: Percentage of the 11 September hijackers who came from Saudi Arabia.
140: Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin Laden family, evacuated from United States almost immediately after 11 September.
$3,500: Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for anyone who could
confirm Bush's Alabama guard service.
600-700: Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that period.
0: Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with information about Bush's guard service.
0: Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former chairman of the Defence Policy Board, Richard Perle, and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove the main proponents of the war in Iraq served in combat (combined).
43: Percentage of the entire world's military spending that the US spends on defence. (That was in 2002, the year before the invasion of Iraq.)
1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East, gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden spurs as a gift.
2.5: Number of hours after Rumsfeld learnt that Osama bin Laden was a
suspect in the 11 September attacks that he brought up reasons to "hit"
Iraq.
10m: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets on 21
February 2003, in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, the largest
simultaneous protest in world history.
$15m: Amount of a contract awarded to an American firm to build a cement factory in Iraq.
$80,000: Amount an Iraqi firm spent to build the same factory.
2000: Year that Cheney said his policy as CEO of Halliburton oil services company was "we wouldn't do anything in Iraq".
$4.7bn: Total value of contracts awarded to Halliburton in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
92: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to potable water in late 2002.
60: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to potable water in late 2003.
0: Number of memorial services for the returned dead soldiers that Bush has attended since the beginning of the war.
$10.9m: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person cabinet.
$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet received in 2003 as a result of cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.
79: Number of Bush's initial 189 appointees who also served in his father's administration.
4.7m: Number of bankruptcies that were declared during Bush's first three years in office.
$489bn: The US trade deficit in 2003, the worst in history for a single
year.
$5.6tr: Projected national surplus forecast by the end of the decade when Bush took office in 2001.
87: Percentage of American families in April 2004 who say they have felt no benefit from Bush's tax cuts.
39: Percentage of tax cuts that will go to the top 1 per cent of American families when fully phased in.
$30,858: Amount Bush himself saved in taxes in 2003.
2.3m: Number of Americans who lost their jobs during first three Years of the Bush administration.
22m: Number of jobs gained during Clinton's eight years in office.
40: Percentage of wealth in the United States held by the richest 1 per cent of the population.
43.6m: Number of Americans without health insurance by the end of 2002 (more than 15 per cent of the population).
0: Number of times Bush mentioned global warming, clean air, clean water, pollution or environment in his 2004 State of the Union speech.
1: The rank of the United States worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas
emissions.
25: Percentage of overall worldwide carbon dioxide emissions the United
States is responsible for.
2: Percentage of the world's population that is British.
2: Percentage of the world's oil used by Britain.
5: Percentage of the world's population that is American.
25: Percentage of the world's oil used by America.
750,000: Tons of toxic waste the US military, the world's biggest polluter, generates around the world each Year.
4: Rank of the United States among countries considered to be the greatest
threats to world peace according to a 2003 Pew Global Attitudes study
(Israel, Iran, and North Korea were considered more dangerous; Iraq was
considered less dangerous).
13: Number of vacation days the average American receives each year.
28: Number of vacation days Bush took in August 2001, the month he received a 6 August Presidential Daily Briefing headed "Osama bin Laden Determined to Strike US Targets."
22: Percentage of Americans who believed in May 2003 that Saddam had used his WMDs on US forces.
85: Percentage of American young adults who cannot find Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map.
30: Percentage of American young adults who cannot find the Pacific Ocean on a map.
11: Percentage of American young adults who cannot find the United States on a map.
50m: Number of voters in total who voted for Bush in 2000.
23m: Number of Evangelicals who voted for Bush in 2000.
5: Number of states that do not use the word "evolution" in public school science courses.
_______________________________________________________________________
This is an edited extract from "What We've Lost", by Graydon Carter,
published by Little Brown on 9 September
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