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. ====================================================== To subscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/46VHAA/VL0olB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Peruuta ryhm�n tilaus l�hett�m�ll� s�hk�postia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
