{"id":1085,"date":"2003-04-08T04:31:07","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/08\/by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:40:09","slug":"by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/08\/by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"By the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snippets from the Toronto Star&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontostar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_PrintFriendly&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1035780462384&amp;call_pageid=971358637177\" title=\"The shape of World War IV, by number\">Iraq War Index<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\\$850 billion: Estimated military spending in the world in 2002.<\/li>\n<li>50: Percentage spent by U.S.<\/li>\n<li>0.0015: Percentage spent by Iraq.<\/li>\n<li>1 in 6: Chance the U.S. bombed Iraq on any given day last year.<\/li>\n<li>98: During the first Gulf War, the reported &#8220;success rate&#8221; (or percentage of accurate strikes) by Tomahawk cruise missiles.<\/li>\n<li>10: Pentagon&#8217;s estimated &#8220;success rate&#8221; after the war ended.<\/li>\n<li>92: Between Sept.\u00a014, 2002 and Feb.\u00a07, 2003, percentage of news stories airing on NBC, ABC and CBS that originated directly from White House, Pentagon or State Department.<\/li>\n<li>236,202: The number of times Osama bin Laden was mentioned in international media reports between Sept.\u00a011, 2001 and Sept.\u00a011, 2002.<\/li>\n<li>57, 667: The number of times Osama bin Laden was mentioned between Sept.\u00a011, 2002 and today.<\/li>\n<li>66,648: The number of times Saddam Hussein was mentioned between Sept.\u00a011, 2001 and Sept.\u00a011, 2002.<\/li>\n<li>225,147: The number of times Saddam Hussein was mentioned between Sept.\u00a011, 2002 and today.<\/li>\n<li>13: Percentage of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 who could find Iraq on a map prior to the war.<\/li>\n<li>1: Number of countries that have used nuclear weapons against another country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptybottle.org\/glass\/003217.php\" title=\"Yeah, well.\">Stavros<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snippets from the Toronto Star&#8217;s Iraq War Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}