Anonymous Coward User ID: 53489 New Zealand 12/14/2005 10:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Newspaper Marks 1000 Days of Iraq War with Key Statistics and you know they are looooow figures...
Newspaper Marks 1000 Days of Iraq War with Key Stats
By E&P Staff
Published: December 13, 2005 10:30 AM ET
NEW YORK To mark what it called the "1000 Days" of the Iraq war, the London daily The Independent offered extensive coverage today, featuring a by-the-numbers approach.
Here are some of their calculations:
$204.4 billion: The cost to the U.S of the war so far.
2,339: Allied troops killed
15,955: US troops wounded in action
98: U.K troops killed
30,000 : Estimated Iraqi civilian deaths
0: Number of WMDs found
66: Journalists killed in Iraq.
63: Journalists killed during Vietnam war
8: per cent of Iraqi children suffering acute malnutrition
53,470: Iraqi insurgents killed
67: per cent Iraqis who feel less secure because of occupation
$343: Average monthly salary for an Iraqi soldier. Average monthly salary for an American soldier in Iraq: $4,160.75
5: foreign civilians kidnapped per month
47: per cent Iraqis who never have enough electricity
20: casualties per month from unexploded mines
25-40: per cent Estimated unemployment rate, Nov 2005
251: Foreigners kidnapped
70: per cent of Iraqi's whose sewage system rarely works
183,000: British and American troops are still in action in Iraq.
13,000: from other nations
90: Daily attacks by insurgents in Nov '05. In Jun '03: 8
60-80: per cent Iraqis who are "stronhappy_bunnyosed" to presence of coalition troops
* In an accompanying piece from Baghdad, the newspaper's Patrick Cockburn adds one more stat: A BBC poll yesterday showed that half of the Iraqis questioned say that Iraq needs a strong leader--while only 28 per cent cited democracy as a priority.
"Iraqis are cynical about their political leaders," Cockburn writes. "The election results are likely to show that the great majority of Iraqis will vote along ethnic or religious lines as Shia, Sunni or Kurds. The country is turning from a unitary state into a confederation.
"There is no sign yet of the thousand-day war ending. Every month up to a thousand fresh corpses arrive at the mortuary in Baghdad. A new Iraq is emerging but it is already drenched in blood." |
Samuel Clemens User ID: 46032 United States 12/14/2005 10:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Newspaper Marks 1000 Days of Iraq War with Key Statistics Sloppy modern journalism. They left off the most important statistics - categorical data:
(1) Bush: Get Osama - Reality: not in Iraq; Bush: scrap that; (2) Bush: Get Saddam's WMD - Reality, he had none other than the one's U.S. gave him; Bush: scrap that; (3) Start Operationa Iraqi Freedom (OIL) - Public: Huh?, Bush: whoops, too obvious, scrap that; (4) Bush: Remove Strongman from Power and Bring Freedom - Gullible Public: Uh, ok. Bush: That's the ticket |
salimandr nli User ID: 53484 United States 12/14/2005 10:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Newspaper Marks 1000 Days of Iraq War with Key Statistics they have no idea the number who protest this war? |
David Jedi Knight
User ID: 33700 United States 12/14/2005 10:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Newspaper Marks 1000 Days of Iraq War with Key Statistics Bump.
Why are we REALLY there, Mr. President? |