The War President

• Number of Americans killed in Bush's Iraq war as of August 2006: 2577
• What Bush press flack Tony Snow said the day the total number of American dead reached 2,500: "It's a number"
• Number of Americans killed since Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" on May 1, 2003: 2,438
• Number of Americans wounded (a vague term that includes such horrors as brain damage, limb blasted off, eyes blown out, psyche shattered, etc.) in Bush's war:
  • Official count: 18,777
  • Independent count: up to 48,000

• Estimated number of Iraqi civilians (men, women, and children) killed in Bush's war since Saddam Hussein was ousted: 38,960
• For Iraqis, the bloodiest month of the war so far: June 2006
  more than 100 civilians killed per day
• Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmit's advice to Iraqis who see TV reports of innocent civilians being killed by occupying troops: "Change the channel."
• Percent of Iraqis who want American troops to leave: 82
• Stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Iraq since Bush committed Americans to war in 2003 on the basis that Saddam had and was about to use WMDs: 0
• Number of nations in the world: 192
• Number that joined Bush's "Coalition of the Willing" (COW) to invade Iraq: 48
  (The list includes such military powers as Angola, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Latvia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Romania, Solomon Islands, and Uganda.)
• Number of COW nations that actually sent any troops to Iraq: 39
  (Of these, 32 sent fewer than 1,000 troops. Many sent no fighting units, deploying only engineers, trainers, humanitarian units, and other noncombat personnel.)