- Today, the President gives his annual address. As the
election battle begins, how does his first term add up?
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- 232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between
May 2003 and January 2004
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- 501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from
the beginning of the war - so far
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- 0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after
the Nazi surrender to the Allies in May 1945
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- 0: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home
from Iraq that the Bush administration has allowed to be photographed
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- 0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush
has attended for soldiers killed in Iraq
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- 100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President
Dick Cheney in 2003
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- 13: Number of meetings between Bush and Tony Blair since
he became President
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- 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
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- 2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken
over since coming into the White House
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- 9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq
each day since the invasion in March last year
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- 1.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq
per day since hostilities began
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- 16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the
start of war
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- 10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi cililians killed
since the beginning of the conflict
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- $100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American
citizens by the end of 2003
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- $13 billion: Amount other countries have committed towards
rebuilding Iraq (much of it in loans) as of 24 October
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- 36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US
army since 1999
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- 92%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access
to drinkable water a year ago
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- 60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access
to drinkable water today
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- 32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year
that were not precision-guided
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- 1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein
a pair of golden spurs
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- 45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March
2003 that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the
US
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- $127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year
that Bush became President in 2001
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- $374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal
year for 2003
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- 1st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest
in United States history
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- $1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national
debt increases each day
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- $23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national
debt as of 19 January 2004
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- 1st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a
single year (1.57 million) was set in 2002
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- 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
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- 1st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse
gas emissions per capita
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- $113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000
campaign, setting a record in American electoral history
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- $130 million: Amount raised for Bush's re-election campaign
so far
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- $200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected
to raise in 2004
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- $40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among
the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 2003
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- 28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August,
the second longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder:
Richard Nixon)
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- 13: Number of vacation days the average American worker
receives each year
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- 3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed
in the US in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing
children
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- 1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more
prisoners (152) than any governor in modern US history
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- 2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their
jobs during the three years of the Bush administration
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- 221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's
tax cuts took effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000
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- 1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country
in December. Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000
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- 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
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- 9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September
2003
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- 80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed
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- 55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before
the war
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- 43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance
in 2002
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- 130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised
by the United Nations) with an American military presence
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- 40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for
which the US is responsible
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- $10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's
original 16-person cabinet
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- 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
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- $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
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- $42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001
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- $116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to
save each year in taxes
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- 44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's
economic growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy
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- 700: Number of people from around the world the US has
incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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- 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
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- +6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US
families in poverty
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- 1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military
spending was greater than the one the previous spring
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- 54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately
elected to his post
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- $300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that
provides subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes
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- $1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel
in April 2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq
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- 58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has
opened to road building, logging and drilling
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- 200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush
has attempted to downgrade or weaken
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=482947
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