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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"~TRUTH 666~" |
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20 Jan 2004 01:29:56 PM |
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WARNING - TRUTH ALERT! The Real State of the Union |
George W Bush and the Real State of the Union:
Today the President gives his annual address. As the election battle
begins, how does his first term add up?
20 January 2004: (The Independent)
232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 and
January 2004
501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the beginning
of the war - so far
0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi
surrender to the Allies in May 1945
0: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from Iraq that
the Bush administration has allowed to be photographed
0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended
for soldiers killed in Iraq
100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President *****
Cheney in 2003
13: Number of meetings between Bush and Tony Blair since he became
President
10 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the
streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time
record for simultaneous protest
2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since
coming into the White House
9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq each day
since the invasion in March last year
1.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq per day since
hostilities began
16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the start of war
10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi cililians killed since the
beginning of the conflict
$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American citizens
by the end of 2003
$13 billion: Amount other countries have committed towards rebuilding
Iraq (much of it in loans) as of 24 October
36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since 1999
92%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to drinkable
water a year ago
60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to drinkable
water today
32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not
precision-guided
1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of
golden spurs
45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March 2003 that
Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the US
$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became
President in 2001
$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 2003
1st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in United
States history
$1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national debt increases
each day
$23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as of
19 January 2004
1st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year (1.57
million) was set in 2002
10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since
beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his
administration, and Bill Clinton 33
1st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per
capita
$113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign,
setting a record in American electoral history
$130 million: Amount raised for Bush's re-election campaign so far
$200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to raise in
2004
$40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among the nine
Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 2003
28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second
longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder: Richard
Nixon)
13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives each
year
3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed in the US
in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing
children
1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152)
than any governor in modern US history
2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the
three years of the Bush administration
221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took
effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000
1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December.
Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000
1st: This administration is on its way to becoming the first since
1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an overall loss of jobs during
its complete term in office
9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 2003
80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed
55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war
43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002
130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the United
Nations) with an American military presence
40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is
responsible
$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original
16-person cabinet
88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on
their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and
dividends taxes
$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to
enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends
taxes
$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001
$116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year
in taxes
44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's economic
growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy
700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
1st: George W Bush became the first American president to ignore the
Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow inspectors access to US-held
prisoners of war
+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in
poverty
1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending was
greater than the one the previous spring
54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately
elected to his post
1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40
years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not at
federal level
9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on
the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor
35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military assistance
after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from
prosecution before the International Criminal Court
$300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that provides
subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes
$1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel in April
2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq
58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road
building, logging and drilling
200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted
to downgrade or weaken
29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of a
whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured or
become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the
Pentagon
90%: Percentage of American citizens who said they approved of the way
George Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 26
September, 2001
53%: Percentage of American citizens who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president when asked on 16 January, 2004
© 2003 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=482947
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| User: "Pongado" |
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| Title: Re: WARNING - TRUTH ALERT! The Real State of the Union |
20 Jan 2004 08:29:01 PM |
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Here, I thought, you had given this some serious consideration.
But.....alas, another cut and paste.
One more:
0 - Your ability at coherent thought.
"~TRUTH 666~" <corporation_666@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:51061492.0401201129.68c1b934@posting.google.com...
George W Bush and the Real State of the Union:
Today the President gives his annual address. As the election battle
begins, how does his first term add up?
20 January 2004: (The Independent)
232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 and
January 2004
501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the beginning
of the war - so far
0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi
surrender to the Allies in May 1945
0: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from Iraq that
the Bush administration has allowed to be photographed
0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended
for soldiers killed in Iraq
100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President *****
Cheney in 2003
13: Number of meetings between Bush and Tony Blair since he became
President
10 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the
streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time
record for simultaneous protest
2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since
coming into the White House
9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq each day
since the invasion in March last year
1.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq per day since
hostilities began
16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the start of war
10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi cililians killed since the
beginning of the conflict
$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American citizens
by the end of 2003
$13 billion: Amount other countries have committed towards rebuilding
Iraq (much of it in loans) as of 24 October
36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since 1999
92%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to drinkable
water a year ago
60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to drinkable
water today
32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not
precision-guided
1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of
golden spurs
45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March 2003 that
Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the US
$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became
President in 2001
$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 2003
1st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in United
States history
$1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national debt increases
each day
$23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as of
19 January 2004
1st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year (1.57
million) was set in 2002
10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since
beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his
administration, and Bill Clinton 33
1st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per
capita
$113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign,
setting a record in American electoral history
$130 million: Amount raised for Bush's re-election campaign so far
$200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to raise in
2004
$40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among the nine
Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 2003
28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second
longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder: Richard
Nixon)
13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives each
year
3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed in the US
in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing
children
1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152)
than any governor in modern US history
2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the
three years of the Bush administration
221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took
effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000
1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December.
Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000
1st: This administration is on its way to becoming the first since
1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an overall loss of jobs during
its complete term in office
9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 2003
80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed
55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war
43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002
130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the United
Nations) with an American military presence
40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is
responsible
$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original
16-person cabinet
88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on
their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and
dividends taxes
$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to
enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends
taxes
$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001
$116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year
in taxes
44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's economic
growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy
700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
1st: George W Bush became the first American president to ignore the
Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow inspectors access to US-held
prisoners of war
+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in
poverty
1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending was
greater than the one the previous spring
54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately
elected to his post
1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40
years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not at
federal level
9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on
the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor
35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military assistance
after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from
prosecution before the International Criminal Court
$300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that provides
subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes
$1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel in April
2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq
58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road
building, logging and drilling
200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted
to downgrade or weaken
29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of a
whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured or
become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the
Pentagon
90%: Percentage of American citizens who said they approved of the way
George Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 26
September, 2001
53%: Percentage of American citizens who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president when asked on 16 January, 2004
© 2003 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=482947
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| User: "SPQR" |
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| Title: Re: WARNING - TRUTH ALERT! The Real State of the Union |
21 Jan 2004 06:36:25 AM |
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"Pongado" <dad922@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<NtlPb.861$RR3.406@fe1.texas.rr.com>...
Here, I thought, you had given this some serious consideration.
But.....alas, another cut and paste.
One more:
0 - Your ability at coherent thought.
So why don't you refute the facts presented here?
Oh, I forgot -- you can't refute these facts so in typical rightwing
fashion, you try to distract attention from the facts with ad hominem
attacks.
SPQR
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"~TRUTH 666~" <corporation_666@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:51061492.0401201129.68c1b934@posting.google.com...
George W Bush and the Real State of the Union:
Today the President gives his annual address. As the election battle
begins, how does his first term add up?
20 January 2004: (The Independent)
232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 and
January 2004
501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the beginning
of the war - so far
0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi
surrender to the Allies in May 1945
0: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from Iraq that
the Bush administration has allowed to be photographed
0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended
for soldiers killed in Iraq
100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President *****
Cheney in 2003
13: Number of meetings between Bush and Tony Blair since he became
President
10 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the
streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time
record for simultaneous protest
2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since
coming into the White House
9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq each day
since the invasion in March last year
1.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq per day since
hostilities began
16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the start of war
10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi cililians killed since the
beginning of the conflict
$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American citizens
by the end of 2003
$13 billion: Amount other countries have committed towards rebuilding
Iraq (much of it in loans) as of 24 October
36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since 1999
92%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to drinkable
water a year ago
60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to drinkable
water today
32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not
precision-guided
1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of
golden spurs
45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March 2003 that
Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the US
$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became
President in 2001
$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 2003
1st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in United
States history
$1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national debt increases
each day
$23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as of
19 January 2004
1st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year (1.57
million) was set in 2002
10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since
beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his
administration, and Bill Clinton 33
1st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per
capita
$113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign,
setting a record in American electoral history
$130 million: Amount raised for Bush's re-election campaign so far
$200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to raise in
2004
$40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among the nine
Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 2003
28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second
longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder: Richard
Nixon)
13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives each
year
3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed in the US
in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing
children
1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152)
than any governor in modern US history
2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the
three years of the Bush administration
221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took
effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000
1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December.
Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000
1st: This administration is on its way to becoming the first since
1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an overall loss of jobs during
its complete term in office
9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 2003
80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed
55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war
43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002
130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the United
Nations) with an American military presence
40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is
responsible
$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original
16-person cabinet
88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on
their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and
dividends taxes
$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to
enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends
taxes
$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001
$116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year
in taxes
44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's economic
growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy
700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
1st: George W Bush became the first American president to ignore the
Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow inspectors access to US-held
prisoners of war
+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in
poverty
1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending was
greater than the one the previous spring
54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately
elected to his post
1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40
years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not at
federal level
9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on
the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor
35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military assistance
after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from
prosecution before the International Criminal Court
$300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that provides
subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes
$1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel in April
2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq
58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road
building, logging and drilling
200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted
to downgrade or weaken
29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of a
whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured or
become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the
Pentagon
90%: Percentage of American citizens who said they approved of the way
George Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 26
September, 2001
53%: Percentage of American citizens who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president when asked on 16 January, 2004
© 2003 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=482947
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| User: "Pongado" |
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| Title: Re: WARNING - TRUTH ALERT! The Real State of the Union |
21 Jan 2004 08:52:19 AM |
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Refute extraneous remarks?
How about one or two instead? I'm not inclined to read the entire tripe.
Number of deaths in Iraq: 501
Number of deaths in WWII: 20,000,000
0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended for the
501 soldiers who died in Iraq.
0: Number of funerals or memorials that President FDR attended for the
400,000 soldiers who died in WWII.
10 Mil: Estimated number of people worldwide who opposed th invasion of
Iraq....
150 Mil: Number of Americans who supported the invasion of Iraq. ***** the
rest of the world.
9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded/day in Iraq.
400: Average number of American soldiers killed/day in WWII.
You are a fucking idiot.
"SPQR" <PopUlist349@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2baf42ad.0401210436.4a891358@posting.google.com...
"Pongado" <dad922@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<NtlPb.861$RR3.406@fe1.texas.rr.com>...
Here, I thought, you had given this some serious consideration.
But.....alas, another cut and paste.
One more:
0 - Your ability at coherent thought.
So why don't you refute the facts presented here?
Oh, I forgot -- you can't refute these facts so in typical rightwing
fashion, you try to distract attention from the facts with ad hominem
attacks.
SPQR
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"~TRUTH 666~" <corporation_666@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:51061492.0401201129.68c1b934@posting.google.com...
George W Bush and the Real State of the Union:
Today the President gives his annual address. As the election battle
begins, how does his first term add up?
20 January 2004: (The Independent)
232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 and
January 2004
501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the beginning
of the war - so far
0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi
surrender to the Allies in May 1945
0: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from Iraq that
the Bush administration has allowed to be photographed
0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended
for soldiers killed in Iraq
100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President *****
Cheney in 2003
13: Number of meetings between Bush and Tony Blair since he became
President
10 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the
streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time
record for simultaneous protest
2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since
coming into the White House
9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq each day
since the invasion in March last year
1.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq per day since
hostilities began
16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the start of war
10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi cililians killed since the
beginning of the conflict
$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American citizens
by the end of 2003
$13 billion: Amount other countries have committed towards rebuilding
Iraq (much of it in loans) as of 24 October
36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since 1999
92%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to drinkable
water a year ago
60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to drinkable
water today
32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not
precision-guided
1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of
golden spurs
45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March 2003 that
Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the US
$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became
President in 2001
$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 2003
1st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in United
States history
$1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national debt increases
each day
$23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as of
19 January 2004
1st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year (1.57
million) was set in 2002
10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since
beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his
administration, and Bill Clinton 33
1st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per
capita
$113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign,
setting a record in American electoral history
$130 million: Amount raised for Bush's re-election campaign so far
$200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to raise in
2004
$40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among the nine
Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 2003
28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second
longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder: Richard
Nixon)
13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives each
year
3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed in the US
in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing
children
1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152)
than any governor in modern US history
2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the
three years of the Bush administration
221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took
effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000
1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December.
Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000
1st: This administration is on its way to becoming the first since
1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an overall loss of jobs during
its complete term in office
9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 2003
80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed
55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war
43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002
130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the United
Nations) with an American military presence
40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is
responsible
$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original
16-person cabinet
88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on
their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and
dividends taxes
$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to
enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends
taxes
$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001
$116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year
in taxes
44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's economic
growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy
700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
1st: George W Bush became the first American president to ignore the
Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow inspectors access to US-held
prisoners of war
+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in
poverty
1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending was
greater than the one the previous spring
54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately
elected to his post
1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40
years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not at
federal level
9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on
the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor
35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military assistance
after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from
prosecution before the International Criminal Court
$300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that provides
subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes
$1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel in April
2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq
58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road
building, logging and drilling
200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted
to downgrade or weaken
29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of a
whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured or
become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the
Pentagon
90%: Percentage of American citizens who said they approved of the way
George Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 26
September, 2001
53%: Percentage of American citizens who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president when asked on 16 January, 2004
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Let us not forget:
10 Mil: Number of worldwide protestors.
1.48 Bil: Number of worldwide Muslims.
0: Number of Muslims in US that protested.
0: Number of Iraqi Muslims in US that protested.
2: Number of Americans that actually give a ***** what the world thinks about
American involvement in Iraq.
3000: Number of Americans killed in US at WTC.
0: Number of Americans killed in US since WTC.
Get a brain you idiot. Germany may not have supported us with troops but
they are doing ALL of our security at bases in Germany. They have a crunch
on their military budget and, like France, have a lot of Muslims living in
their country and both are very pleased (albeit clandestinely, that the US
is the lightning rod for Al Qaeda rather than themselves).
The Democrats voted for the same military action that the Republicans did.
Most admit that it was the right thing to do but the ones trying to get
their ambitious asses in the whitehouse are claiming they were duped. They
read the same intelligence reports that Bush and Clinton read. All arrived
at the same conclusion.
Dean? Well, Dean just has no clue whatsoever.
You have no solutions. You, and people like you, contribute NOTHING when
the paper is blank. All you can do is criticize when the wrong decisions
are made.
You can't be any more of a cynic about government than I, but I can wait
until the dust settles before commenting on matters that the general public
(and the fucking media) DO NOT know the details.
I suggest you stop listening to the media interview each other about what is
going on. It truly amazes me that a talking head will interview another
talking head regarding matters of State as though they are an authority on
the subject. It stuns me that Idiots like you actually believe them as
though they know more than anyone else.
I'm through. Kiss my *****.
"Pongado" <dad922@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:DmwPb.7069$7D.6609@fe2.texas.rr.com...
Refute extraneous remarks?
How about one or two instead? I'm not inclined to read the entire tripe.
Number of deaths in Iraq: 501
Number of deaths in WWII: 20,000,000
0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended for
the
501 soldiers who died in Iraq.
0: Number of funerals or memorials that President FDR attended for the
400,000 soldiers who died in WWII.
10 Mil: Estimated number of people worldwide who opposed th invasion of
Iraq....
150 Mil: Number of Americans who supported the invasion of Iraq. ***** the
rest of the world.
9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded/day in Iraq.
400: Average number of American soldiers killed/day in WWII.
You are a fucking idiot.
"SPQR" <PopUlist349@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"Pongado" <dad922@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Here, I thought, you had given this some serious consideration.
But.....alas, another cut and paste.
One more:
0 - Your ability at coherent thought.
So why don't you refute the facts presented here?
Oh, I forgot -- you can't refute these facts so in typical rightwing
fashion, you try to distract attention from the facts with ad hominem
attacks.
SPQR
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"~TRUTH 666~" <corporation_666@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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George W Bush and the Real State of the Union:
Today the President gives his annual address. As the election battle
begins, how does his first term add up?
20 January 2004: (The Independent)
232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 and
January 2004
501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the beginning
of the war - so far
0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi
surrender to the Allies in May 1945
0: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from Iraq that
the Bush administration has allowed to be photographed
0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended
for soldiers killed in Iraq
100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President *****
Cheney in 2003
13: Number of meetings between Bush and Tony Blair since he became
President
10 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the
streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time
record for simultaneous protest
2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since
coming into the White House
9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq each day
since the invasion in March last year
1.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq per day
since
hostilities began
16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the start of war
10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi cililians killed since the
beginning of the conflict
$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American citizens
by the end of 2003
$13 billion: Amount other countries have committed towards
rebuilding
Iraq (much of it in loans) as of 24 October
36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since
1999
92%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to drinkable
water a year ago
60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to drinkable
water today
32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not
precision-guided
1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair
of
golden spurs
45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March 2003 that
Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the US
$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush
became
President in 2001
$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for
2003
1st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in United
States history
$1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national debt
increases
each day
$23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as
of
19 January 2004
1st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year
(1.57
million) was set in 2002
10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since
beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his
administration, and Bill Clinton 33
1st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions
per
capita
$113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign,
setting a record in American electoral history
$130 million: Amount raised for Bush's re-election campaign so far
$200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to raise in
2004
$40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among the nine
Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 2003
28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second
longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder:
Richard
Nixon)
13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives
each
year
3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed in the
US
in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing
children
1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152)
than any governor in modern US history
2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the
three years of the Bush administration
221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took
effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000
1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December.
Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000
1st: This administration is on its way to becoming the first since
1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an overall loss of jobs during
its complete term in office
9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 2003
80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed
55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war
43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002
130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the
United
Nations) with an American military presence
40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is
responsible
$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original
16-person cabinet
88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on
their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains
and
dividends taxes
$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to
enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and
dividends
taxes
$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001
$116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year
in taxes
44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's economic
growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy
700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated
in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
1st: George W Bush became the first American president to ignore the
Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow inspectors access to US-held
prisoners of war
+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in
poverty
1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending
was
greater than the one the previous spring
54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately
elected to his post
1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40
years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not
at
federal level
9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on
the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor
35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military
assistance
after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from
prosecution before the International Criminal Court
$300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that provides
subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes
$1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel in April
2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq
58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road
building, logging and drilling
200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has
attempted
to downgrade or weaken
29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of a
whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured
or
become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the
Pentagon
90%: Percentage of American citizens who said they approved of the
way
George Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 26
September, 2001
53%: Percentage of American citizens who approved of the way Bush
was
handling his job as president when asked on 16 January, 2004
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