[Peace-discuss] bushies record

[Dlind49 at aol.com]

fwd by The Salmon Valley Observer, 01/19/04

As Bush gives his State of the Union Address tonight, here are some numbers 
to keep in mind about his first three years in the White House. This was 
published on Tuesday, January 20, 2004, by the lndependent/UK. Feel free to forward 
this on....

By the Numbers: George W. Bush's Record as President


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

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 

This article is at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0120-01.htm or 
http:// www.independent.co.uk/.

Thanks to Jackson Thoreau for suggesting this...


J. Barlow
The Salmon Valley Observer
in The Empire State
salmonvalley at att.net