From: "Vicki Andrada" [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
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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