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Dec 2006Amount a 2006 defense bill authorized for a daylong “celebration” of “success” in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20,000,000



Date on which the authorization was extended to 2007: 9/30/06
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U.S. Department of Defense (Arlington, Va.)

Oct 2006 Factor by which the jobless rate among veterans under 25 of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars exceeds the U.S. average: 3
Source:

Bureau of Labor Statistics (Washington)

Aug 2006

Ratio of the estimated U.S. cost of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol to the cost of the Iraq war so far: 1:1

Source:

David Sandalow, Brookings Institution (Washington)/Scott Wallsten, American Enterprise Institute (Washington)

Aug 2006

Number of AK-47s that have gone missing after being sent by the Pentagon to Iraq last summer: 26,000

Source:

Amnesty International (London)

Aug 2006

Percentage of Americans in May who believed that democracy would take hold in Iraq: 54

Number of the fourteen other nations surveyed where a majority believed this: 3

Source:

Pew Global Attitudes Project (Washington)

Jun 2006

Length, in miles, of a barrier that Saudi Arabia has proposed to build in order to seal its border with Iraq: 560

Number of electronically controlled gates that would be placed along its length: 135

Source:

Middle East Economic Digest (London)

Jun 2006Minimum number of Iraqis displaced by sectarian violence since February: 65,000
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Ministry of Displacement and Migration (Baghdad)

Jun 2006Days after her coronation in April that an Iraqi beauty queen resigned, citing death threats: 4
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Talat Model Management (Baghdad)

Jun 2006Factor by which the number of Iraqis imprisoned now exceeds the number at the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal: 2
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Task Force 134, Multi-National Force‒Iraq (Baghdad)

May 2006Ratio of the entire U.S. federal budget in 1948, adjusted for inflation, to the amount spent so far on the Iraq war: 1:1
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National Priorities Project (Northampton, Mass.)

May 2006Percentage of U.S. soldiers in Iraq who say the war was a retaliation for Saddam Hussein's role in the 9/11 attacks: 85
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Zogby International (Utica, N.Y.)

Mar 2006Percentage of Democrats and Republicans, respectively, who say the Iraq war was “worth fighting”: 4, 84
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M.I.T. Public Opinion Research Training Lab (Cambridge, Mass.)

Mar 2006Total projected cost of the Iraq war per U.S. household, based on a January estimate: $19,600
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Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University (N.Y.C.)

Jan 2006Minimum number of Iraq war veterans who have declared they are running for Congress this year: 11
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Harper’s research

Jan 2006Number of people whom Coalition forces have imprisoned in Iraq at some point since March 2003: 48,526
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Detainee Operations, Multi-National Force—Iraq (Baghdad)

Dec 2005Minimum number of insurgent attacks in Iraq since November 2003 using explosive-carrying dogs or donkeys: 6
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Harper’s research

Dec 2005Minimum number of U.S. generals in Iraq using private security companies for their personal security: 4
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U.S. Central Command (Baghdad)

Dec 2005Date on which USAID launched an Internet campaign asking Americans to help pay for the Iraqi reconstruction: 9/9/05
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USAID (Washington)

Dec 2005Number of U.S. soldiers who have posted photographs of dead Iraqis or Afghans on Nowthatsfuckedup.com: 32
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Harper’s research

Nov 2005

Number of journalists killed in Vietnam during twenty years of war there: 63

Number killed in Iraq since March 2003: 71

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Reporters without Borders (Paris)

Nov 2005Years after the start of the Iraq War that a majority said this: 1 1/4
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The Gallup Organization (Washington)

Nov 2005Number of volunteers who are making personalized quilts for the next of kin of all U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: 150
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Marine Comfort Quilts (Manchester, Mo.)

Oct 2005Projected cost of disability payments to Iraq War veterans by 2050, based on rates for Gulf War veterans: $285,000,000,000
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Linda Bilmes, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)

Oct 2005Number of sites in Iraq from which materials usable to make biological or chemical weapons are now “missing”: 118
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U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (N.Y.C.)

Aug 2005Number of Iraqi troops that have been “trained and equipped,” according to President Bush in April : 150,000
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White House (Washington)

Aug 2005Number of members of the Iraqi parliament who worship not only Muhammad but a fallen angel named Lucifer : 3
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Verlag Denge Ezidiyan (Oldenburg, Germany)

Jul 2005Percentage of the 651 fatal or wounding terrorist attacks worldwide last year that took place in Iraq: 32
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National Counterterrorism Center (Washington)

Jun 2005Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of Iraq: $4,100,000,000
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U.S. Department of Defense

Jun 2005Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit: $8,800,000,000
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Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Arlington, Va.)

Jun 2005Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on a single defector: 100
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Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)

Jun 2005Percentage of Iceland residents who took out an ad this winter apologizing for Icelandic support of the Iraq war: 1.5
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The Movement for Active Democracy in Iceland (Reykjavik)/Statistics Iceland (Reykjavik)

Mar 2005Ratio of the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to the number of Iraqi resisters, as estimated by Iraq’s new director of intelligence: 3:4
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U.S. Department of Defense/Agence France-Presse, 1/3/05

Feb 2005Number of "Sword" military robots the U.S. Army plans to deploy in Iraq this spring: 18
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Picatinny (Picatinny Arsenal, N.J.)

Feb 2005Ratio in December of the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to the number from Britain, the second-largest contributor: 16:1
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U.S. Department of Defense/U.K. Ministry of Defence (London)/Permanent Mission of Italy to the U.N. (N.Y.C.)

Feb 2005Ratio of the number of troops in Iraq Britain to the number from Italy, the third-largest contributor: 3:1
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U.S. Department of Defense/U.K. Ministry of Defence (London)/Permanent Mission of Italy to the U.N. (N.Y.C.)

Feb 2005Number of political parties registered for Iraq's national elections scheduled for January: 72
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Permanent Mission of Iraq to the U.N. (N.Y.C.)

Jan 2005Percentage "more intelligence" given up by prisoners in Iraq since coercion of them was banned, according to a U.S. general : 25
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Newsweek, 9/27/03

Jan 2005Factor by which an Iraqi is more likely to die today than in the last year of the Hussein regime : 2.5
Source:

Les Roberts, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)

Dec 2004Average number of bullets per Iraqi this represents : 58
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Harper's Research

Dec 2004Minimum number of countries with a greater capacity to produce nuclear weapons than Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion : 35
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International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna)

Dec 2004