232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq
between May 2003 and January 2004
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 (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
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
recognized 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 defense policy
board who also sit on the corporate board of, or advise,
at least one defense 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
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
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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