- 1 - Number of Bush administration public statements on
National security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001
that mentioned al-Qa'ida.
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- 104 - Number of Bush administration public statements
on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq
or Saddam Hussein.
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- 101 - Number of Bush administration public statements
on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned missile
defence.
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- 65 - Number of Bush administration public statements
on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned weapons
of mass destruction.
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- 0 - Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Laden in
his three State of the Union addresses.
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- 73 - Number of times that Bush mentioned terrorism or
terrorists in his three State of the Union addresses.
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- 83 - Number of times Bush mentioned Saddam, Iraq, or
regime (as in change) in his three State of the Union addresses.
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- $1m - Estimated value of a painting the Bush Presidential
Library in College Station, Texas, received from Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia's
ambassador to the United States and Bush family friend.
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- 0 - Number of times Bush mentioned Saudi Arabia in his
three State of the Union addresses.
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- 1,700 - Percentage increase between 2001 and 2002 of
Saudi Arabian spending on public relations in the United States.
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- 79 - Percentage of the 11 September hijackers who came
from Saudi Arabia.
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- 3 - Number of 11 September hijackers whose entry visas
came through special US-Saudi "Visa Express" programme.
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- 140 - Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin
Laden family, evacuated from United States almost immediately after 11
September.
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- 14 - Number of Immigration and Naturalisation Service
(INS) agents assigned to track down 1,200 known illegal immigrants in the
United States from countries where al-Qa'ida is active.
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- $3m - Amount the White House was willing to grant the
9/11 Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks.
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- $0 - Amount approved by George Bush to hire more INS
special agents.
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- $10m - Amount Bush cut from the INS's existing terrorism
budget.
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- $50m - Amount granted to the commission that looked into
the Columbia space shuttle crash.
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- $5m - Amount a 1996 federal commission was given to study
legalised gambling.
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- 7 - Number of Arabic linguists fired by the US army between
mid-August and mid-October 2002 for being gay.
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- George Bush: Military man
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- 1972 - Year that Bush walked away from his pilot duties
in the Texas National Guard, Nearly two years before his six-year obligation
was up.
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- $3,500 - Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for
anyone who could confirm Bush's Alabama guard service.
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- 600-700 - Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit
during that period.
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- 0 - Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward
with information about Bush's guard service.
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- 0 - Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President
Dick Cheney, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant Defence
Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former chairman of the Defence Policy Board,
Richard Perle, and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove the main
proponents of the war in Iraq served in combat (combined).
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- 0 - Number of principal civilian or Pentagon staff members
who planned the war who have immediate family members serving in uniform
in Iraq.
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- 8 - Number of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives
who have a child serving in the military.
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- 10 - Number of days that the Pentagon spent investigating
a soldier who had called the President "a joke" in a letter to
the editor of a Newspaper.
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- 46 - Percentage increase in sales between 2001 and 2002
of GI Joe figures (children's toys).
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- Ambitious warrior
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- 2 - Number of Nations that George Bush has attacked and
taken over since coming into office.
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- 130 - Approximate Number of countries (out of a total
of 191 recognised by the United Nations) with a US military presence.
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- 43 - Percentage of the entire world's military spending
that the US spends on defence. (That was in 2002, the year before the invasion
of Iraq.)
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- $401.3bn - Proposed military budget for 2004.
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- Saviour of Iraq
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- 1983 - The year in which Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan's
special envoy to the Middle East, gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden
spurs as a gift.
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- 2.5 - Number of hours after Rumsfeld learnt that Osama
bin Laden was a suspect in the 11 September attacks that he brought up
reasons to "hit" Iraq.
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- 237 - Minimum number of misleading statements on Iraq
made by top Bush administration officials between 2002 and January 2004,
according to the California Representative Henry Waxman.
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- 10m - Estimated number of people worldwide who took to
the streets on 21 February 2003, in opposition to the invasion of Iraq,
the largest simultaneous protest in world history.
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- $2bn - Estimated monthly cost of US military presence
in Iraq projected by the White House in April 2003.
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- $4bn - Actual monthly cost of the US military presence
in Iraq according to Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld in 2004.
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- $15m - Amount of a contract awarded to an American firm
to build a cement factory in Iraq.
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- $80,000 - Amount an Iraqi firm spent (using Saddam's
confiscated funds) to build the same factory, after delays prevented the
American firm from starting it.
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- 2000 - Year that Cheney said his policy as CEO of Halliburton
oil services company was "we wouldn't do anything in Iraq".
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- $4.7bn - Total value of contracts awarded to Halliburton
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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- $680m - Estimated value of Iraq reconstruction contracts
awarded to Bechtel.
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- $2.8bn - Value of Bechtel Corp contracts in Iraq.
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- $120bn - Amount the war and its aftermath are projected
to cost for the 2004 fiscal year.
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- 35 - Number of countries to which the United States suspended
military assistance after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans
immunity from prosecution before the International Criminal Court.
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- 92 - Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to
potable water in late 2002.
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- 60 - Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to
potable water in late 2003.
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- 55 - Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who were unemployed
before the war.
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- 80 - Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who are unemployed
a Year after the war.
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- 0 - Number of American combat deaths in Germany after
the Nazi surrender in May 1945.
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- 37 - Death toll of US soldiers in Iraq in May 2003, the
month combat operations "officially" ended.
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- 0 - Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home
that the Bush administration has permitted to be photographed.
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- 0 - Number of memorial services for the returned dead
that Bush has attended since the beginning of the war.
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- A soldier's best friend
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- 40,000 - Number of soldiers in Iraq seven months after
start of the war still without Interceptor vests, designed to stop a round
from an AK-47.
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- $60m - Estimated cost of outfitting those 40,000 soldiers
with Interceptor vests.
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- 62 - Percentage of gas masks that army investigators
discovered did Not work properly in autumn 2002.
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- 90 - Percentage of detectors which give early warning
of a biological weapons attack found to be defective.
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- 87 - Percentage of Humvees in Iraq not equipped with
armour capable of stopping AK-47 rounds and protecting against roadside
bombs and landmines at the end of 2003.
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- Making the country safer
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- $3.29 - Average amount allocated per person Nationwide
in the first round of homeland security grants.
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- $94.40 - Amount allocated per person for homeland security
in American Samoa.
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- $36 - Amount allocated per person for homeland security
in Wyoming, Vice-President Cheney's home state.
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- $17 - Amount allocated per person in New York state.
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- $5.87 - Amount allocated per person in New York City.
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- $77.92 - Amount allocated per person in New Haven, Connecticut,
home of Yale University, Bush's alma mater.
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- 76 - Percentage of 215 cities surveyed by the US Conference
of Mayors in early 2004 that had yet to receive a dime in federal homeland
security assistance for their first-response units.
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- 5 - Number of major US airports at the beginning of 2004
that the Transportation Security Administration admitted were Not fully
screening baggage electronically.
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- 22,600 - Number of planes carrying unscreened cargo that
fly into New York each month.
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- 5 - Estimated Percentage of US air cargo that is screened,
including cargo transported on passenger planes.
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- 95 - Percentage of foreign goods that arrive in the United
States by sea.
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- 2 - Percentage of those goods subjected to thorough inspection.
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- $5.5bn - Estimated cost to secure fully US ports over
the Next decade.
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- $0 - Amount Bush allocated for port security in 2003.
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- $46m - Amount the Bush administration has budgeted for
port security in 2005.
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- 15,000 - Number of major chemical facilities in the United
States.
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- 100 - Number of US chemical plants where a terrorist
act could endanger the lives of more than one million people.
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- 0 - Number of new drugs or vaccines against "priority
pathogens" listed by the Centres for Disease Control that have been
developed and introduced since 11 September 2001.
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- Giving a hand up to the advantaged
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- $10.9m - Average wealth of the members of Bush's original
16-person cabinet.
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- 75 - Percentage of Americans unaffected by Bush's sweeping
2003 cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.
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- $42,000 - Average savings members of Bush's cabinet received
in 2003 as a result of cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.
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- 10 - Number of fellow members from the Yale secret society
Skull and Bones that Bush has named to important positions (including the
Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum Jr. and SEC chief Bill Donaldson).
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- 79 - Number of Bush's initial 189 appointees who also
served in his father's administration.
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- A man with a lot of friends
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- $113m - Amount of total hard money the Bush-Cheney 2000
campaign received, a record.
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- $11.5m - Amount of hard money raised through the Pioneer
programme, the controversial fund-raising process created for the Bush-Cheney
2000 campaign. (Participants pledged to raise at least $100,000 by bundling
together cheques of up to $1,000 from friends and family. Pioneers were
assigned numbers, which were included on all cheques, enabling the campaign
to keep track of who raised how much.)
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- George Bush: Money manager
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- 4.7m - Number of bankruptcies that were declared during
Bush's first three years in office.
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- 2002 - The worst year for major markets since the recession
of the 1970s.
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- $489bn - The US trade deficit in 2003, the worst in history
for a single year.
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- $5.6tr - Projected national surplus forecast by the end
of the decade when Bush took office in 2001.
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- $7.22tr - US national debt by mid-2004.
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- George Bush: Tax cutter
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- 87 - Percentage of American families in April 2004 who
say they have felt no benefit from Bush's tax cuts.
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- 39 - Percentage of tax cuts that will go to the top 1
per cent of American families when fully phased in.
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- 49 - Percentage of Americans in April 2004 who found
that their taxes had actually gone up since Bush took office.
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- 88 - Percentage of American families who will save less
than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital
gains and dividends taxes.
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- $30,858 - Amount Bush himself saved in taxes in 2003.
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- Employment tsar
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- 9.3m - Number of US unemployed in April 2004.
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- 2.3m - Number of Americans who lost their jobs during
first three Years of the Bush administration.
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- 22m - Number of jobs gained during Clinton's eight years
in office.
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- Friend of the poor
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- 34.6m - Number of Americans living below the poverty
line (1 in 8 of the population).
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- 6.8m - Number of people in the workforce but still classified
as poor.
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- 35m - Number of Americans that the government defines
as "food insecure," in other words, hungry.
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- $300m - Amount cut from the federal programme that provides
subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes.
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- 40 - Percentage of wealth in the United States held by
the richest 1 per cent of the population.
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- 18 - Percentage of wealth in Britain held by the richest
1e per cent of the population.
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- George Bush And his special friend
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- $60bn - Loss to Enron stockholders, following the largest
bankruptcy in US history.
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- $205m - Amount Enron CEO Kenneth Lay earned from stock
option profits over a four-year period.
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- $101m - Amount Lay made from selling his Enron shares
just before the company went bankrupt.
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- $59,339 - Amount the Bush campaign reimbursed Enron for
14 trips on its corporate jet during the 2000 campaign.
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- 30 - Length of time in months between Enron's collapse
and Lay (whom the President called "Kenny Boy") still not being
charged with a crime.
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- George Bush: Lawman
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