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Title: Stats on America's War Post by: twobombs on June 13, 2006, 05:07:56 AM Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? As Many As 250,000
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2492 The War in Iraq Costs $287,927,413,043 See the cost in your community (Modified to remove links asking for donations) Title: Re: Stats on America's War Post by: Soldier4Christ on June 13, 2006, 05:19:13 AM Some other numbers that are very often overlooked.
The initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. From there, they ripple out. * Total number killed in attacks (official figure as of 9/5/02): 2,819 * Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343 * Number of NYPD officers: 23 * Number of Port Authority police officers: 37 * Number of WTC companies that lost people: 60 * Number of employees who died in Tower One: 1,402 * Number of employees who died in Tower Two: 614 * Number of employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658 * Number of U.S. troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom: 22 * Number of nations whose citizens were killed in attacks: 115 * Ratio of men to women who died: 3:1 * Age of the greatest number who died: between 35 and 39 * Bodies found "intact": 289 * Body parts found: 19,858 * Number of families who got no remains: 1,717 * Estimated units of blood donated to the New York Blood Center: 36,000 * Total units of donated blood actually used: 258 * Number of people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks: 1,609 * Estimated number of children who lost a parent: 3,051 * Percentage of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20 * FDNY retirements, January–July 2001: 274 * FDNY retirements, January–July 2002: 661 * Number of firefighters on leave for respiratory problems by January 2002: 300 * Number of funerals attended by Rudy Giuliani in 2001: 200 * Number of FDNY vehicles destroyed: 98 * Tons of debris removed from site: 1,506,124 * Days fires continued to burn after the attack: 99 * Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100 * Days the New York Stock Exchange was closed: 6 * Point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average when the NYSE reopened: 684.81 * Days after 9/11 that the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan: 26 * Total number of hate crimes reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations nationwide since 9/11: 1,714 * Economic loss to New York in month following the attacks: $105 billion * Estimated cost of cleanup: $600 million * Total FEMA money spent on the emergency: $970 million * Estimated amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion * Estimated amount of insurance paid worldwide related to 9/11: $40.2 billion * Estimated amount of money needed to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $7.5 billion * Amount of money recently granted by U.S. government to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $4.55 billion * Estimated amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY families: $500 million * Percentage of total charity money raised going to FDNY and NYPD families: 25 * Average benefit already received by each FDNY and NYPD widow: $1 million * Percentage increase in law-school applications from 2001 to 2002: 17.9 * Percentage increase in Peace Corps applications from 2001 to 2002: 40 * Percentage increase in CIA applications from 2001 to 2002: 50 * Number of songs Clear Channel Radio considered "inappropriate" to play after 9/11: 150 * Number of mentions of 9/11 at the Oscars: 26 * Apartments in lower Manhattan eligible for asbestos cleanup: 30,000 * Number of apartments whose residents have requested cleanup and testing: 4,110 * Number of Americans who changed their 2001 holiday-travel plans from plane to train or car: 1.4 million * Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as a result of 9/11: 422,000 5,000 Islamic Terror Attacks in 5 Years More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. 19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals put to death in the last 65 years. Iraqi civilians killed this year by Islamic Terrorists 3,047 Iraqi civilians killed collaterally by Americans 47* *Source: IraqBodyCount.net (includes civilians caught in crossfire who may have been killed by the terrorists) Monthly Jihad Report (May, 2006) Jihad Attacks: 229 Dead Bodies: 1143 Critically Injured: 1512 It's all about Iraq, isn't it? Yep, it's all about Iraq and... India and the Sudan and Algeria and Afghanistan and New York and Pakistan and Israel and Russia and Chechnya and the Philippines and Indonesia and Nigeria and England and Thailand and Spain and Egypt and Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia and Ingushetia and Dagestan and Turkey and Kabardino-Balkaria and Morocco and Yemen and Lebanon and France and Uzbekistan and Gaza and Tunisia and Kosovo and Bosnia and Mauritania and Kenya and Eritrea and Syria and Somalia and California and Kuwait and Virginia and Ethiopia and Iran and Jordan and United Arab Emirates and Louisiana and Texas and Tanzania and Germany and Pennsylvania and Belgium and Denmark and East Timor and Qatar and Maryland and Tajikistan and the Netherlands and Scotland and Chad and Canada and... ...and pretty much wherever Muslims believe their religion tells them to: "Fight and slay the Unbelievers wherever ye find them. Seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war." Qur'an, Sura 9:5 Title: Re: Stats on America's War Post by: Soldier4Christ on June 13, 2006, 05:39:47 AM Let me throw in one more group of figures for the record.
Iraq survival Count Civilian Lives saved by Military intervention is estimated at 92,294. |