Iraq
|
|
|
|
Approximate
number of U.S. troops
currently in Iraq:
|
139,000
|
Percent
of coalition forces contributed by the U.S.
|
85.7
|
Weeks
since the Pentagon developed a plan to draw down U.S.
forces in Iraq
to roughly 40,000 by mid-2005:
|
98
|
Approximate
amount appropriated by Congress for Iraq operations so far:
|
$218 billion
|
Approximate
amount spent by the U.S.
in World War I:
|
$205 billion
|
Approximate amount spent in Iraq
by the U.S.
last week:
|
$1.03 billion
|
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) found:
|
0
|
Number of U.S.
service members killed in Iraq:
|
1,886
|
Number killed since the President announced the end of
major combat:
|
1,747
|
Number reported wounded by the Defense Department:
|
14,265
|
Approximate number of medical evacuations of U.S. military
personnel performed since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom:
|
55,000
|
Number of National Guard soldiers killed in Iraq through
August 27, 2005:
|
269
|
Number of National Guard soldiers killed in the entire
Vietnam War:
|
97
|
Number of Iraqi military and police killed since
training began (June 2003):
|
3,051
|
Estimated number of insurgents in Iraq
(November 2003):
|
5,000
|
Estimated number of insurgents in Iraq (June
2005):
|
15 - 20,000
|
Estimated
number of 107 Iraqi military and special police battalions that are capable
of operating independently:
|
3
|
Total
amount of taxpayers' money spent by Halliburton that the Defense Contract
Audit Agency has deemed either excessive or insufficiently documented:
|
$1.47 billion
|
Amount
charged to American taxpayers by Halliburton to build a movie library for its
employees:
|
$152 million
|
Number of
movies in the library:
|
10,000
|
Total number of nations contributing troops to
Iraq
as part of President Bush's "coalition of the willing" at some
point during the war:
|
37
|
Number of these nations that either have
withdrawn or plan to withdraw their troops from the coalition:
|
14
|
Average size of troop contributions by nations
with troops currently deployed to Iraq,
excluding the United States,
United Kingdom, South Korea, and Italy:
|
186
|
Amount of the $13.6 billion pledged by the
international community for Iraq's
reconstruction that had been dispersed as of May 2005:
|
$603 million
|
Foreigners kidnapped in Iraq last
month:
|
22
|
Foreigners kidnapped during the five previous months
combined:
|
19
|
|
|
War on Terrorism
|
|
|
|
Days since September 11, 2001 that Osama bin Laden has
remained uncaptured:
|
1,454
|
Days after bombing Pearl Harbor that Japan surrendered to U.S. forces:
|
1,365
|
Number of times President Bush mentioned the "war
on terror" in one month before the 2004 elections:
|
71
|
Number of times in the six months following the 2004
elections:
|
66
|
Chances of a WMD attack in the next ten years, according
to leading arms experts:
|
70 percent
|
Number of discovered cases of potential illicit
smuggling of nuclear or radiological material out of the former Soviet Union last year:
|
200
|
Percent of former Soviet nuclear material stockpiles secured
under Nunn-Lugar counterproliferation programs:
|
26
|
Number of terrorist suspects the Bush Administration
claims have been convicted since September 11, 2001:
|
200
|
Number that have actually been convicted:
|
39
|
Total hours of wiretap recordings related to
counterterrorism that the FBI has failed to review:
|
8,000
|
Average time the FBI requires to hire contract
linguists to review the tapes:
|
16 months
|
|
|
U.S. Military Personnel
|
|
Readiness/Strain
|
|
Total National Guard and Reserve personnel currently
deployed:
|
145,953
|
Percentage of
the Army's Third Infantry Division currently serving a second tour in Iraq:
|
50
|
Number of Marine battalions that are currently serving or
preparing to serve their third combat tour in Iraq:
|
5
|
Of the 333 Army National Guard infantry, military
police, armor, and Special Forces units, the number currently combat-ready
without reinforcements:
|
6
|
Percent of Army Reserve currently ineligible for
deployment because of recent deployments, lack of training, medical reasons,
etc.:
|
84
|
Value of total Reserve Component equipment shortage,
beginning Fiscal Year 2005:
|
$15.21 billion
|
Army National Guard equipment shortage, as a
percentage of the total:
|
76.7
|
Shortage of
Captains, who serve as unit-level leaders, in the Army Reserve:
|
52 percent
|
Recruiting and
Retention
|
|
Recruits needed per month for the rest of the fiscal
year, if the Army is to meet its annual goal:
|
12,396.5
|
Highest monthly total of Army recruits this year:
|
8,086
|
Number of months the Marine Corps missed its
recruiting goals between January and April 2005:
|
4
|
Number of months the Marine Corps missed its
recruiting goals in ten years before January 2005:
|
0
|
Prior to 2004, years since the Army National Guard
last missed its annual recruiting goal:
|
11
|
Consecutive months the Army National Guard has missed
its monthly recruiting goals:
|
9
|
Number of the six Reserve Components that met their
recruiting goals last month:
|
2
|
Rate of loss of Army captains and lieutenants,
the Army's junior officers, in 2004:
|
8.5
|
Average rate of loss of Army captains and
lieutenants, 1996-2004:
|
7.3
|
Resignation requests submitted by Army Reserve
Officers in 2001:
|
15
|
Resignation requests submitted by Army Reserve Officers,
September 2003-September 2004:
|
370
|
Percent of Army
enlisted special operations personnel leaving the force in 2004:
|
13
|
Percent of Army
enlisted special operations personnel leaving in 2003:
|
6
|
Morale
|
|
Percent of troops in Iraq
reporting that their unit's morale is "low" or "very
low":
|
54
|
Increase in the divorce rate among Army officers since
the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom:
|
317 percent
|
|
|
North Korea
|
|
|
|
Estimated minimum number of nuclear weapons likely
produced by North Korea
during the Bush Administration:
|
4-6
|
Estimated number produced by North Korea
from 1953 to 2000:
|
1-2
|
Potential number of nuclear
weapons North Korea
could possess by next year if Six-Party Talks continue to produce no
disarmament agreement:
|
11
|
|
|
Darfur
|
|
|
|
Estimated number of conflict-related deaths per day in
Darfur, Sudan:
|
500
|
Estimated number since President Bush took office:
|
400,000
|
Days since Secretary of State Powell first called the
situation "genocide":
|
362
|
Number of days after the Senate passed the Darfur
Accountability Act as an amendment to H.R. 1268 that the Administration wrote
a letter pressuring House Republicans (successfully) to remove it from the
final bill:
|
1
|
Number of Darfuris expected to require food assistance
during the August-October "hunger season":
|
3.5 million
|
Conflict-affected persons
in Darfur and Eastern Chad:
|
3.2 million
|
Total population of the Darfur region:
|
6 million
|
|
|
Homeland Security
|
|
|
|
Factor by which passengers on mass transit systems
exceed passengers on airlines:
|
16
|
Funding per passenger the Bush Administration has
spent to secure mass transit systems since September 11, 2001:
|
$0.01
|
Cost of security upgrades needed to protect rail and
transit systems as estimated by U.S. transit authorities:
|
$6 billion
|
Amount of funding designated specifically for rail and
transit security in President Bush's budget:
|
$0
|
Total amount of funding added to the Fiscal Year
2006 Homeland Security Appropriations bill for rail security in the wake of
the July 7 London Bombings:
|
$0
|
Number of provisions in federal law requiring chemical
facilities to establish safeguards against a terrorist attack:
|
0
|
Number of chemical facilities at which a terrorist strike
could threaten the lives of over 1 million people:
|
123
|
Percent of cargo arriving at U.S. ports
inspected for WMD:
|
<1
|
Percent of "high-risk" cargo inspected:
|
17.5
|
Estimated economic impact of a terrorist attack to a U.S. port:
|
$1 trillion
|
Percent of Transportation Security Administration
Fiscal Year 2005 budget allocated for port security grants:
|
2.8
|
Deadline for meeting port security standards set by
the Maritime Transportation Security Act:
|
2004
|
Year in which MTSA port security standards will be met
if port security funding levels remain constant:
|
2050
|
Ratio of federal air security screeners to federal
surface transportation (rail and public transit) security screeners:
|
450:1
|
Homeland security grant dollars per capita awarded to
the U.S. Virgin Islands in Fiscal Year 2004:
|
$104.35
|
Homeland security grant dollars per capita awarded to California in Fiscal
Year 2004:
|
$4.97
|
|
|
Veterans
|
|
|
|
Approximate number of Iraqi Freedom and Enduring
Freedom veterans discharged from service, through June 2005:
|
393,00
|
Approximate number of these veterans seeking health
care from VA hospitals, through June 2005:
|
103,000
|
Approximate number of these veterans diagnosed with
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or other mental ailments:
|
24,000
|
According to the Army Surgeon General, percent of troops
returning from the Iraq
war that have developed stress-related mental health problems:
|
30
|
Total funding requested specifically to meet the needs
of Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom veterans in the President's 2006
budget:
|
$0
|
Total Compensation and Pension Claims Backlog:
|
507,952
|
Percent change in pending claims from the end of Fiscal
Year 2003 to March 2005:
|
+33
|
Gap between veterans' needs and President Bush's 2006
budget proposal:
|
$3.5 billion
|
Percent increase needed each year just to maintain
existing programs in the face of medical inflation and other rising costs:
|
13-14
|
Percent increase in veterans health care funding
requested in President Bush's 2006 Budget Proposal:
|
0.4
|
Fiscal Year 2005 budget shortfall announced by the VA:
|
$1.27 billion
|
Number of weeks prior to the VA's budget shortfall announcement
that VA Secretary Nicholson told Congress, "I can assure you
that VA does not need emergency supplemental funds in FY 2005":
|
11
|
Total funding shortfall for Fiscal Years 2005 and 2006
now identified by the Bush Administration:
|
$3 billion
|
Percentage rise in the number of veterans collecting
unemployment insurance since August 2002:
|
96
|
Approximate number of veterans who experience homelessness
during a given year:
|
500,000
|
|
|
Democracy and
Development
|
|
|
|
Number of
Botswanan AIDS patients the Bush Administration claims are receiving
treatment because of U.S.
assistance:
|
32,839
|
Number of
Botswanan AIDS patients the Botswanan government says are receiving treatment
because of U.S.
assistance:
|
0
|
Total
amount appropriated to the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) so far:
|
$2.48 billion
|
Total aid
distributed by the MCA so far:
|
$0
|
Average
amount per year to be distributed through the five compact agreements signed
so far:
|
$37.7 million
|
Annual
amount President Bush promised for the MCA:
|
$5 billion
|
Average
amount requested in President Bush's annual budgets since he proposed the
MCA:
|
$2.3 billion
|
Number of
the world's ten poorest nations with whom the United States has signed an MCA
compact:
|
0
|
Number of
the world's 40 poorest nations with whom the United States has signed an MCA
compact:
|
1
|
Rank of U.S. among 21 developed nations
in foreign assistance spending measured as a percentage of Gross National
Product:
|
20
|
Number of children dying each day from preventable
diseases:
|
27,000
|
Percentage of the world's population living on less
than $2 per day:
|
50
|
Cut in funding for foreign development assistance
proposed in President Bush's budget:
|
$345 million
|
|
|
Statistics of the Week
|
|
|
|
Energy and National
Security
|
|
Current barrels per day of oil consumed in the United States:
|
20.7 million
|
Percent of the U.S. transportation sector fueled
by oil:
|
97
|
Projected percent increase in U.S. oil demand between 2002 and
2025:
|
38.6
|
Projected percent increase in oil demand by India and China during that period:
|
169.0
|
Estimated potential impact of a major terrorist attack
targeting oil infrastructure on the U.S. economy, measured in number
of jobs lost:
|
2 million
|
Number of insurgent or terrorist attacks on Iraqi oil
assets since June 2003:
|
260
|
Percentage rise in world oil prices, by barrel, since June
2003:
|
128.4
|
Percent of the world's oil reserves controlled by
countries ranked as "free" by Freedom House:
|
9
|
Additional oil costs attributed to a "fear
premium" based on market fears of terrorist attacks paid by Americans
each year:
|
$40-$60
billion
|
SOURCES
Iraq
1. Department of Defense
(DoD) Operational Briefing, 5/26/05
(http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2005/tr20050526-2901.html)
2. Brookings Institution Iraq Index
(http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
3. As of September 6, 2005. Washington
Post, 10/19/03
4. House Budget Committee
Minority Staff
(http://www.house.gov/budget_democrats/analyses/06iraq_war_cost_update.pdf)
5. Christian Science
Monitor, 8/29/05
6. DoD Comptroller Tina
Jonas, House Appropriations Committee Hearing, 3/2/05
7. Iraqi Survey Group
8. DoD Casualty Report (http://www.dod.gov/news/casualty.pdf)
September 6, 2005
9. DoD Casualty Report (http://www.dod.gov/news/casualty.pdf)
September 6, 2005
10. DoD Casualty Report (http://www.dod.gov/news/casualty.pdf)
September 6, 2005
11. DoD News Release, 5/11/05
(http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2005/20050511_1025.html)
12. Brookings Institution Iraq
Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
13. New York Daily News, 7/5/05
14. As of September 6, 2005.
Brookings Institution Iraq
Index
(http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
15. Brookings Institution
Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
16. Brookings Institution
Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
17. Washington Post, 6/10/05
18. Boston Globe, 6/28/05
19. Boston Globe, 6/28/05
20. Boston Globe, 6/28/05
21. GlobalSecurity.Org (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm)
22. GlobalSecurity.Org (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm)
23. CRS RL32105 (http://www.congress.gov/erp/rl/pdf/RL32105.pdf)
24. GAO-05-876 (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05876.pdf)
25. Brookings Institution
Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
26. Brookings Institution
Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
Terrorism
1. As of September 6, 2005
2. Japan signed the Instrument of
Surrender on September 2, 1945
3. America Abroad, 5/28/05 (http://americaabroad.tpmcafe.com/)
4. America Abroad, 5/28/05 (http://americaabroad.tpmcafe.com/)
5. CNN.com, 6/22/05
6. House Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology hearing,
6/21/05
7. Securing the Bomb 2005,
May 2005 (http://www.nti.org/e_research/report_cnwmupdate2005execsum.pdf)
8. Washington Post, 6/12/05
9. Washington Post, 6/12/05
10. Washington Post, 7/28/05
11. Washington Post, 7/28/05
U.S. Military Personnel
Readiness/Strain
1. As of August 31, 2005. DoD
Press Resources (http://www.dod.gov/news/).
2. Brookings Institution Iraq
Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
3. USA Today, 7/29/05
4. Detroit Free Press, 6/13/05
5. GAO-05-660 (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05660.pdf)
6. National Guard and Reserve
Equipment Report for Fiscal Year 2006 (http://www.defenselink.mil/ra/documents/annualreports/fy2006NGREREquipment.PDF)
7. National Guard and Reserve
Equipment Report for Fiscal Year 2006 (http://www.defenselink.mil/ra/documents/annualreports/fy2006NGREREquipment.PDF)
8. GAO-05-660 (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05660.pdf)
Recruiting and Retention
1. The Army's FY 2005 goal is
80,000 new recruits (USA Today, 6/30/05). With two months left in the
fiscal year, 55,207 have acceded into the Army, leaving 24,793 for the Army to
recruit to meet its goal. (Department of Defense press release, 8/10/05
http://www.dod.gov/releases/2005/nr20050810-4393.html)
2. USA Today, 6/30/05
3. San Diego Union-Tribune,
5/27/05
(http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050527/news_1n27recruit.html)
4. San Diego Union-Tribune,
5/27/05
(http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050527/news_1n27recruit.html)
5. Washington Times, 9/23/04
(http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040923-114738-3289r.htm)
6. Reuters, 7/11/05;
Department of Defense press release, 8/10/05
(05 http://www.dod.gov/releases/2005/nr20050810-4393.html)
7. Department of Defense
press release, 8/10/05
(05 http://www.dod.gov/releases/2005/nr20050810-4393.html)
8. Baltimore Sun, 7/28/05
9. Baltimore Sun, 7/28/05
10. Seattle Times, 12/9/04
(http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002113845_officershortage09m.html)
11. Seattle Times, 12/9/04
(http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002113845_officershortage09m.html)
12. Winston-Salem Journal, 7/30/05
13. Winston-Salem Journal, 7/30/05
Morale
1. Washington Post, 7/21/05
2. Houston Chronicle, 6/30/05
North Korea
1. Congressional Research
Service IB91141
2. Congressional Research
Service IB91141
3. Special Report, Center for
Nonproliferation Studies, 4/28/05 (http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/pdf/050428.pdf)
Darfur
1. Coalition for
International Justice, 4/21/05 (http://www.cij.org/pdf/Press_Release_CIJ_Mortality_Study_April_21_2005.pdf)
2. Coalition for
International Justice, 4/21/05 (http://www.cij.org/pdf/Press_Release_CIJ_Mortality_Study_April_21_2005.pdf)
3. Through September 6, 2005.
Powell, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, 9/9/04.
4. American Prospect,
4/29/05 (http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9622)
5. U.N. World Food Program
press release, 6/17/05
6. USAID fact sheet, 8/26/05
(http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/pdf/082605_fs48.pdf)
7. U.S. State Department (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/36028.htm)
Homeland Security
1. USA Today, 7/7/05
2. USA Today, 7/7/05
3. USA Today, 7/7/05
4. Senate Conference Report
109-83
5. H.R. 2360
6. Senator John Corzine,
Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, 4/27/05 (http://hsgac.senate.gov/_files/CorzineHSGACtestimony.pdf)
7. Washington Post, 12/31/04
8. Associated Press,
5/25/05
9. Associated Press,
5/25/05
10. Protecting the
American Homeland: A Preliminary Analysis, Brookings Institution, May 2002
11. "What Does Homeland
Security Spending Buy?" American Enterprise Institute (AEI), April 2005 (http://www.aei.org/docLib/20050408_wp107.pdf)
12. New Strategies to
Protect America:
Safer Ports for a More Secure Economy, Center for American Progress,
6/15/05
(http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=815195)
13. New Strategies to
Protect America:
Safer Ports for a More Secure Economy, Center for American Progress,
6/15/05
(http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=815195)
14. New Strategies to
Protect America:
Putting Rail Security on the Right Track, Center for American Progress,
4/21/05
(http://www.americanprogress.org/atf/cf/{E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03}
/Rail%20Security%20Printer%20Final.pdf)
15. "What Does Homeland
Security Spending Buy?" AEI, April 2005 (http://www.aei.org/docLib/20050408_wp107.pdf)
16. "What Does Homeland
Security Spending Buy?" AEI, April 2005 (http://www.aei.org/docLib/20050408_wp107.pdf)
Veterans
1. Testimony of Michael
Kussman before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, 7/26/05
(http://www.house.gov/hasc/schedules/Kussman72605.pdf)
2. Testimony of VA Secretary
Nicholson, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, 6/28/05
3. Testimony of Michael
Kussman before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, 7/26/05
(http://www.house.gov/hasc/schedules/Kussman72605.pdf)
4. USA Today, 7/29/05
5. President's Fiscal Year
2006 Budget Request (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/veterans.html)
6. VA Monday Morning Report (http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/201/reports/mmrindex.htm).
As of August 27, 2005.
7. GAO-05-749T
8. Veterans Independent
Budget
9. House Veterans Affairs
Committee hearing, 1/29/03
10. Veterans of Foreign Wars
press release, 2/18/05 (http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.newsDtl&did=2373)
11. CQ Today, 7/13/05
12. Washington Post, 6/24/05
13. CQ Today, 7/13/05
14. Reuters, 8/30/05 (http://www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=2045)
15. National Coalition of
Homeless Veterans, testimony to House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on
Economic Opportunity (http://www.nchv.org/content.cfm?id=43)
Democracy and Development
1. Washington Post, 7/1/05
2. Washington Post, 7/1/05
3. Congressional Research
Service, RL 32427
4. Millennium Challenge
Corporation. (http://www.mca.gov)
5. The Millennium Challenge
Corporation has signed a four-year, $110 million compact with Madagascar; a
five-year, $215 million compact with Honduras; a five-year, $110 million
compact with Cape Verde; a five-year, $175 million compact with Nicaragua; and
a five-year, $295.3 million compact with Georgia. Millennium Challenge
Corporation. (http://www.mca.gov)
6. Congressional Research
Service, RL 32427
7. Debt-AIDS-Trade-Africa
(DATA) fact sheet (http://www.data.org/archives/PresReq06onepager.pdf)
8. Congressional Research
Service, RL 32427
9. Congressional Research
Service, RL 32427
10. Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/59/51/34700392.pdf)
11. Foreign Policy,
February 2005 (http://www.cgdev.org/docs/FP_Radelet_2_05.pdf)
12. Foreign Policy,
February 2005 (http://www.cgdev.org/docs/FP_Radelet_2_05.pdf)
13. Senate Conference Report
109-96
Statistics of the Week
1. Energy Information
Administration (http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/quickfacts/quickoil.html)
2. Testimony by Robbie
Diamond before the House International Relations Subcommittee on International
Terrorism and Nonproliferation, 7/27/05 (http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/109/dia072705.pdf)
3. International Energy
Outlook 2005, Table A4, Energy Information Administration (http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/pdf/0484(2005).pdf)
4. International Energy
Outlook 2005, Table A4, Energy Information Administration (http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/pdf/0484(2005).pdf)
5. Testimony by Robbie
Diamond before the House International Relations Subcommittee on International
Terrorism and Nonproliferation, 7/27/05 (http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/109/dia072705.pdf)
6. Iraq Pipeline Watch,
Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm).
As of August 31, 2005.
7. Energy Information
Administration (http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/ftparea/wogirs/xls/psw13.xls#'3-Weekly
World and U.S.'!A1)
8. Institute for the Analysis
of Global Security (http://www.iags.org/geopolitics.html)
9. Testimony by Dr. Gal Luft
before the House International Relations Subcommittee on International
Terrorism and Nonproliferation, 7/27/05 (http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/109/luf072705.pdf)