stats on the forthcoming war

[miguel leal]

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>How the Coming War Stacks Up Blood, Stats, and Tears
>by Ward Harkavy
>February 5 - 11, 2003
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>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
>Related Story: "The Bush Warmongers Miss the Bloody Truth" by Alisa Solomon
>in http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0306/harkavy.php
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