| Dec 2006 | - Amount 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 | Source: U.S. Department of Defense (Arlington, Va.)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| Jun 2006 | - Minimum number of Iraqis displaced by sectarian violence since February: 65,000
| Source: Ministry of Displacement and Migration (Baghdad)
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| Jun 2006 | - Days after her coronation in April that an Iraqi
beauty queen resigned, citing death threats: 4
| Source: Talat Model Management (Baghdad)
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| Jun 2006 | - Factor by which the number of Iraqis imprisoned now exceeds the number at the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal: 2
| Source: Task Force 134, Multi-National Force‒Iraq (Baghdad)
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| May 2006 | - Ratio of the entire U.S. federal budget in 1948, adjusted for inflation, to the amount spent so far on the Iraq war: 1:1
| Source: National Priorities Project (Northampton, Mass.)
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| May 2006 | - Percentage of U.S. soldiers in Iraq who say the war was a retaliation for Saddam Hussein's role in the 9/11 attacks: 85
| Source: Zogby International (Utica, N.Y.)
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| Mar 2006 | - Percentage of Democrats and Republicans, respectively, who say the Iraq war was “worth fighting”: 4, 84
| Source: M.I.T. Public Opinion Research Training Lab (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Mar 2006 | - Total projected cost of the Iraq war per U.S. household, based on a January estimate: $19,600
| Source: Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University (N.Y.C.)
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| Jan 2006 | - Minimum number of Iraq war veterans who have declared they are running for Congress this year: 11
| Source: Harper’s research
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| Jan 2006 | - Number of people whom Coalition forces have imprisoned in Iraq at some point since March 2003: 48,526
| Source: Detainee Operations, Multi-National Force—Iraq (Baghdad)
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| Dec 2005 | - Minimum number of insurgent attacks in Iraq since November 2003 using explosive-carrying dogs or donkeys: 6
| Source: Harper’s research
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| Dec 2005 | - Minimum number of U.S. generals in Iraq using private security companies for their personal security: 4
| Source: U.S. Central Command (Baghdad)
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| Dec 2005 | - Date on which USAID launched an Internet campaign asking Americans to help pay for the Iraqi reconstruction: 9/9/05
| Source: USAID (Washington)
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| Dec 2005 | - Number of U.S. soldiers who have posted photographs of dead Iraqis or Afghans on Nowthatsfuckedup.com: 32
| Source: Harper’s research
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| Nov 2005 | -
Number of journalists killed in Vietnam during twenty years of war there: 63
Number killed in Iraq since March 2003: 71
| Source: Reporters without Borders (Paris)
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| Nov 2005 | - Years after the start of the Iraq War that a majority said this: 1 1/4
| Source: The Gallup Organization (Washington)
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| Nov 2005 | - Number of volunteers who are making personalized quilts for the next of kin of all U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: 150
| Source: Marine Comfort Quilts (Manchester, Mo.)
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| Oct 2005 | - Projected cost of disability payments to Iraq War veterans by 2050, based on rates for Gulf War veterans: $285,000,000,000
| Source: Linda Bilmes, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Oct 2005 | - Number of sites in Iraq from which materials usable to make biological or chemical weapons are now “missing”: 118
| Source: U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (N.Y.C.)
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| Aug 2005 | - Number of Iraqi troops that have been “trained and equipped,” according to President Bush in April : 150,000
| Source: White House (Washington)
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| Aug 2005 | - Number of members of the Iraqi parliament who worship not only Muhammad but a fallen angel named Lucifer : 3
| Source: Verlag Denge Ezidiyan (Oldenburg, Germany)
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| Jul 2005 | - Percentage of the 651 fatal or wounding terrorist attacks worldwide last year that took place in Iraq: 32
| Source: National Counterterrorism Center (Washington)
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| Jun 2005 | - Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of Iraq: $4,100,000,000
| Source: U.S. Department of Defense
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| Jun 2005 | - Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit: $8,800,000,000
| Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Arlington, Va.)
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| Jun 2005 | - Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on a single defector: 100
| Source: Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)
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| Jun 2005 | - Percentage of Iceland residents who took out an ad this winter apologizing for Icelandic support of the Iraq war: 1.5
| Source: The Movement for Active Democracy in Iceland (Reykjavik)/Statistics Iceland (Reykjavik)
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| Mar 2005 | - Ratio 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
| Source: U.S. Department of Defense/Agence France-Presse, 1/3/05
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| Feb 2005 | - Number of "Sword" military robots the U.S. Army plans to deploy in Iraq this spring: 18
| Source: Picatinny (Picatinny Arsenal, N.J.)
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| Feb 2005 | - Ratio in December of the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to the number from Britain, the second-largest contributor: 16:1
| Source: U.S. Department of Defense/U.K. Ministry of Defence (London)/Permanent Mission of Italy to the U.N. (N.Y.C.)
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| Feb 2005 | - Ratio of the number of troops in Iraq
Britain to the number from Italy, the third-largest contributor: 3:1
| Source: U.S. Department of Defense/U.K. Ministry of Defence (London)/Permanent Mission of Italy to the U.N. (N.Y.C.)
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| Feb 2005 | - Number of political parties registered for Iraq's national elections scheduled for January: 72
| Source: Permanent Mission of Iraq to the U.N. (N.Y.C.)
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| Jan 2005 | - Percentage "more intelligence" given up by prisoners in Iraq since coercion of them was banned, according to a U.S. general : 25
| Source: Newsweek, 9/27/03
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| Jan 2005 | - Factor 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)
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| Dec 2004 | - Average number of bullets per Iraqi this represents : 58
| Source: Harper's Research
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| Dec 2004 | - Minimum number of countries with a greater capacity to produce nuclear weapons than Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion : 35
| Source: International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna)
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