Bush By Numbers: Four Years of Double Standards

[Pert_UK]

Not a bad front page from a British national broadsheet newspaper?

"1 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned al-Qa'ida.

104 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein...

1,700 Percentage increase between 2001 and 2002 of Saudi Arabian spending on public relations in the United States...

$3m Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks.

$0 Amount approved by George Bush to hire more INS special agents.

$10m Amount Bush cut from the INS's existing terrorism budget.

$50m Amount granted to the commission that looked into the Columbia space shuttle crash...

0 Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former chairman of the Defence Policy Board, Richard Perle, and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove ­ the main proponents of the war in Iraq ­served in combat (combined)."

There's lots and lots more on the website or in the newspaper itself:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=557746

Note to mods:

Given that this was a "line-by-line" article I hope it's OK to quote this amount - it's not divided into paragraphs.

[Nambe]

1. Is that fuzzy math?

Must be.

[Pert_UK]

2. I'm not with you...the article's maths or W's?

In the UK, we say "maths".

P.

[RedEarth]

11. What do you mean by "fuzzy math"?

[gohawks]

3. thanks Pert_UK... good stuff .... eom

[ima_sinnic]

4. fabulous! this will make a good flyer to leave in waiting rooms (n/t)

[bahrbearian]

5. Thats quite a list,, Thanks

[NMDemDist2]

6. kick n/t

[MaineDem]

7. I was about to kick this as well

Excellent points here!

[Pert_UK]

8. I'll give it a kick too for all those late risers.....

:kick:

[Lerkfish]

9. kick, and I quoted this where some repugs hang out...

where they'll ignore or attack me for doing so, because they can't address the data.

[dansolo]

10. This is what I was talking about

We need to attack the absurd notion that the Bush Administration is qualified to defend us from terrorism.

[mom cat]

12. Nominated...This is golden. Thanks for the post!

[democrat_patriot]

13. Kick for truth.