stats on the forthcoming war

How the Coming War Stacks Up Blood, Stats, and Tears
by Ward Harkavy
February 5 - 11, 2003

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 Americans killed during the "Black Hawk Down" episode in
Mogadishu in 1993:18
Number of Somalis killed during the "Black Hawk Down" episode in
Mogadishu in 1993:500 to 1000
Number of Americans killed during the Vietnam War:58,000
Number of Vietnamese killed during the Vietnam War:5.1 million
Number of American soldiers poised for attack at the borders of Iraq:100,000
Number of Iraqis and Americans who, doctors say, might die in the
next war:48,000 to 260,000
Number of additional deaths expected from the civil war within Iraq
following an invasion:20,000
Number of additional deaths expected from "post-war adverse health
effects":200,000
Number of total deaths if nuclear weapons are used:3,900,000
Percentage of Americans who believe that oil best explains why the
U.S. would use military force against Iraq:22
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 Iraq nationalized all foreign oil holdings:1972
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
Number of U.S. Army soldiers ready to decontaminate corpses and send
them back home for burial:700
Ranking of Iraq on the U.N. Human Development Index in 1990: 50th out
of 130 nations
Ranking of Iraq on the U.N. Human Development Index in 2000: 126th
out of 174 nations
Number of Iraqi children who have died as a direct result of
sanctions, according to UNICEF:500,000
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
Percentage of U.S. share of total global military spending in 1985:31
Percentage of U.S. share of total global military spending in 2000:36
Number of U.S. states used in 1998 for the staging of mock nuclear
attacks on North Korea: 2 (North Carolina and Florida)
Date that the Nuclear Posture Review (signed by Secretary of Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld), describing contingency plans to use nuclear
weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya, and
Syria, was delivered to Congress: January 8, 2002
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
Related Story: "The Bush Warmongers Miss the Bloody Truth" by Alisa Solomon
in http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0306/harkavy.php