-Caveat Lector- http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0306/harkavy.php How the Coming War Stacks Up Blood, Stats, and Tears by Ward Harkavy February 5 - 11, 2003
Bodies of three Viet Cong killed in the fighting." May 1968. (photo: National Archives and Records Administration) 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 Americans killed during the "Black Hawk Down" episode in Mogadishu in 1993: 18 Number of Somalis killed during the "Black Hawk Down" episode in Mogadishu in 1993: 500 to 1000 Number of Americans killed during the Vietnam War: 58,000 Number of Vietnamese killed during the Vietnam War: 5.1 million Number of American soldiers poised for attack at the borders of Iraq: 100,000 Number of Iraqis and Americans who, doctors say, might die in the next war: 48,000 to 260,000 Number of additional deaths expected from the civil war within Iraq following an invasion: 20,000 Number of additional deaths expected from "post-war adverse health effects": 200,000 Number of total deaths if nuclear weapons are used: 3,900,000 Percentage of Americans who believe that oil best explains why the U.S. would use military force against Iraq: 22 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 Iraq nationalized all foreign oil holdings: 1972 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 Number of U.S. Army soldiers ready to decontaminate corpses and send them back home for burial: 700 Ranking of Iraq on the U.N. Human Development Index in 1990: 50th out of 130 nations Ranking of Iraq on the U.N. Human Development Index in 2000: 126th out of 174 nations Number of Iraqi children who have died as a direct result of sanctions, according to UNICEF: 500,000 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 Percentage of U.S. share of total global military spending in 1985: 31 Percentage of U.S. share of total global military spending in 2000: 36 Number of U.S. states used in 1998 for the staging of mock nuclear attacks on North Korea: 2 (North Carolina and Florida) Date that the Nuclear Posture Review (signed by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld), describing contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya, and Syria, was delivered to Congress: January 8, 2002 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 Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. 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