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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (289848)	8/23/2002 5:51:33 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Interesting statistics re Bush Part of July's Harper's Index: July 2002 Chance an American believes it is very likely that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will lead to World War III : 1 in 5 Chance an American believes that peace in the Middle East will require a military victory : 1 in 2 Military budget of Israel in 1967 expressed as a percentage of the budgets of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria combined : 58 Israeli military budget today expressed in these terms : 187 Number of references to Israeli "retaliation" on U.S. network nightly newscasts between September 2000 and March 2002 : 118 Number of references to Palestinian "retaliation" : 14 Number of hours Israeli soldiers in Ramallah broadcast pornography on seven Palestinian television stations in March : 48 Number of years that a member of the Council on Foreign Relations has authored Parade magazine's celebrity-gossip column : 11 Number of subscribers to Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi's email magazine Lionheart : 2,200,000 Ratio of Japanese to U.S. companies among the top-ten recipients of U.S. patents last year : 7:2 Length in pages of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear-arms-reduction treaty signed by George H.W. Bush in 1991 : 630 Length in pages of the U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms-reduction treaty drafted in May : 3 Percentage of their respective nations' popular vote won in 2000 by George W. Bush and Venezuela's Hugo Chàvez : 48, 60 Amount that Bush's first 320 appointees spent on campaign contributions in the previous election cycle : $1,590,000 Amount that Bill Clinton's first 320 appointees spent in a similar period : $1,040,000 Number of times Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered the death penalty when local prosecutors did not seek it : 12 Average number of times former attorney general Janet Reno did this in as many months : 7