Subject: Fw: statistics
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:10:03 -0500
Number of precision-guided missiles and bombs that the United States plans to launch per hour at Baghdad during the war's first 48 hours: 63
Number of days it is expected to take for Baghdad residents to become "physically, emotionally, and psychologically exhausted": 2 to 5
Percentage of U.S. bombs and missiles dropped during the first Gulf War that were precision-guided: 9
Percentage of U.S. bombs and missiles ready to be dropped during the coming war that are precision-guided: 75
Number of U.S. satellite-guided bombs stockpiled in the Gulf region: 6700
Number of U.S. laser-guided bombs stockpiled in the Gulf region: 3000
Number of Americans killed during the first Gulf War: 148
Proportion of Americans killed by "friendly fire" during the first Gulf War: 1 in 3
Number of Iraqis killed during the first Gulf War: 100,000
Number of American soldiers poised for attack at the borders of Iraq: 250,000
Numbers of Iraqis and Americans who, doctors say, might die in the next war: 48,000 to 300,000
Number of additional deaths expected from the civil war within Iraq following an invasion: 120,000
Number of additional deaths expected from "post-war adverse health effects": 200,000
Ranking of Iraq among countries with proven reserves of oil: 2
Number of barrels of oil in Iraq's proven reserves: 112,000,000,000
Year that U.S. oil companies were prohibited from investing in, or buying Iraqi oil: 1991
Year that Dick Cheney, as head of oil field equipment manufacturer Halliburton, called for the end to sanctions against Iraq: 2000
U.S. military spending, in billions of dollars per day: 1.08
Ratio of U.S. military spending to the combined military budgets of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria: 26 to 1
Number of Iraqi children who have died as a direct result of sanctions, according to UNICEF: 500,000
Sources: Harper's, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Agence France Presse, Parameters, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You, Policy Analysis, Denver Post, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, Sierra Club, The Village Voice.
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