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Valleyboyabroad:

Scribbles from the Edge


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Some interesting statistics

76% - number of Americans that support the International criminal court

66% - number of Americans that favour working within the UN

71% - number of Americans that support the Kyoto accord

80% - number of Americans that support the banning of landmine treaties

87% - number of Americans that support the banning of nuclear testing

0 - number of the above that Washington has signed up to.


100,000 - the number of Iraqi units Bush claims are already trained in debate agains Kerry

8,169 - number of Iraqi units that have cpmpleted an 8 week training course.

46,176 - number of units listed as 'untrained'

30,000 - number of troops that the US would need by now to maintain security according to Rumsfeld

500,000 - number of troops Gen Zinni estimated were needed to secure Iraq before being dismissed

250,000 - number of troops pencilled in to secure Iraq

180,000 - number of troops actively trying to secure Iraq today, 18 months after the invasion


$18 billion - amount earmarked for Iraqi construction projects

$1.2 billion - amount actually disbursed


80 - average number of attacks agains US led forces in Iraq each day

600 - numnber of US casualties each month

600 - number of Iraqi civilian deaths each month

170,000 - US troops in Iraq

8,360Â - UK troops in Iraq

30 - the number of the coalition of the 'willing'

1 - the number of countries of the coalition other than the US that have sent more than 3,000 troops

7% - number of Australians that want their troops to remain in Iraq

90% - number of Polish people that want out of Iraq

80% - number of Italians that want out of Iraq


12,000,000 - estimated number of people entitled to vote in Iraq

8 - number of UN staff charged with overseeing the registration process in Iraq

120,000 - number of election workers needed to man 30,000 polling places nationwide

0 - number of election workers registered.


4-7 - estimated number of Nukes that North Korea has developed since Bush took office

0 - the number of WMDs that Saddam possessed

1991 - the year that Saddam dismantled his WMDs programs


And finally some choice quotations:

1 - 'Are you mad? I would have lost any support that I had if I ever used WMDs in the war!'

Saddam replying when asked why he didn't use his WMDs in the first gulf war.

2 - 'Really? You can say that with a straight face?'

Vince Morris, a reporter from the New York Post responding to the Whitehouse chief of staff Karl Rove's claim that last weeks presidential debate was Bushes best and Kerrys worst ever performance.

yechydda,

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