PHA-Exchange> The Numbers: American War Machine & Other

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> > Iraq Invasion By The Numbers
> > 
> > by Jackson Thoreau
> > 
> > April 03, 2003 
> > 
> > Percentage of the world's population living in the U.S.: 6.
> > 
> > Percentage of the world's energy resources used in the U.S.: 30. 
> > 
> > Rank of Iraq among countries in the world for the largest oil
> > reserves: 2 [behind Saudi Arabia].
> > 
> > Military spending, worldwide: $900 billion.
> > 
> Percentage of worldwide military spending by U.S.: 50.
> > 
> > Percentage of worldwide military spending by Iraq: 0.0015.
> > 
> > Percentage of Iraq's military capacity U.S. claimed it destroyed in
> > 1991 Persian Gulf War: 80. 
> > 
> > Percentage of Iraq's post-1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass
> > destruction the UN claimed to have discovered and dismantled by
> > 1998: 90. 
> > 
> > Percentage of U.S. military spending that would ensure basic
> > necessities to everyone in the world: 10.
> > 
> > Number of Americans who have died in wars since World War II:
> > 92,212.
> > 
> > Number of people living outside U.S. who have died in wars since
> > World War II: 25 million. 
> > 
> > Years that Iraq has had chemical and biological weapons: 20.
> > 
 > Number of U.S. and European corporations that supplied Iraq with
> > materials and knowledge to make chemical and biological weapons
> > since the early 1980s: 150. 
> > 
> > Number of Western nations that condemned Saddam Hussein in 1988
> > immediately after he used gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988
> > to kill an estimated 5,000 people: 0. 
> > 
> > Number of pounds of Agent Orange and other herbicides U.S. dropped
> > in the Vietnam War: 100 million. 
> > 
> > Value of worldwide weapons trade: $800 billion.
> > 
> > Percentage of weapons dealt by U.S. companies worldwide: 50.
> > 
> > Estimated number of Iraqi civilian deaths in the 1991 Persian Gulf
> > War: 35,000. 
> > 
> > Estimated number of retreating Iraqi soldiers buried alive by U.S.
> > tanks in 1991 War: 6,000. 
> > 
> > Estimated number of Iraqi civilian deaths Pentagon predicted in the
> > 2003 war: 10,000. 
> > 
> > Estimated number of Iraqi civilian casualties in the 2003 war so
> > far: 800. 
> > 
> > Percentage of Iraqi civilian deaths that are children: 50.
> > 
> > Tons of depleted uranium left in Iraq and Kuwait after the 1991
> > Gulf War: 40. 
> > 
> > Percentage increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994:
> > 700. 
> > 
> > Pounds of explosives U.S.-led coalition dropped on Iraq in 1991
> > Persian Gulf War: 177 million.
> > 
> > Pounds of explosives U.S.-British pilots dropped on Iraq between
> > December 1998 and September 1999: 20 million.
> > 
> > Estimated pounds of explosives U.S.-British pilots have dropped on
> > Iraq since the start of Operation Iraqi Invasion in March 2003: 200
> > million. 
> > 
> > Years Iraq has lived under economic sanctions imposed by the UN:
> > 12. 
> > 
> > Iraqi child death rate in 1989 [per 1,000 births]: 30.
> > 
> > Iraqi child death rate in 1999 [per 1,000 births]: 131.
> > 
> > Number of Iraqis estimated to have died through 1999 due to UN
> > sanctions: 1.5 million. 
> > 
> > Percentage of them children: 50.
> > 
> > Number of UN inspections conducted in Iraq in November-December
> > 1998: 300. 
> > 
> > Number of those inspections with problems: 5.
> > 
> > Number of UN weapons inspections conducted in Iraq in 2003: 500. 
> > 
> > Number of UN resolutions Israel violated through 1992: More than
> > 65. 
> > 
> > Number of UN resolutions on Israel that U.S. vetoed between 1972
> > and 1990: More than 30. 
> > 
> > Number of UN weapons inspections Israel has ever allowed: 0.
> > 
> > Number of nuclear warheads U.S. has: More than 10,000.
> > 
> > Number of nuclear warheads Israel has: More than 400.
> > 
> > Number of nuclear warheads Iraq has: 0.
> > 
> > Number of countries known to have nuclear weapons: 8.
> > 
> > Number of countries that have used nuclear weapons on another
> > country: One [ the U.S.].
> > 
> > Note on one of the statistics:  On the question of the increased
> > cancer rate in Iraq, (700%) presumably attributable to use of
> > depleted uranium warheads, it is interesting also to note that the
> > number of american service personnel returning from the 1991 Iraq
> > war to have contracted 'Gulf War Syndrome' now numbers 164,000, and
> > the number continues to grow.
> > *************

> > Jackson Thoreau is co-author of We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring
> > a Legitimate White House. The updated, 120,000-word electronic book
> > can be downloaded on his Internet site at
> > http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html. Citizens for
> > Legitimate Government has the earlier version at
> > http://www.legitgov.org/we_will_not_get_over_it.html. Thoreau can be
> > emailed at jacksonthor at justice.com.