Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards

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.
0 -  Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Laden in his three State of the Union addresses.
79-  Percentage of the 11 September hijackers who came from Saudi Arabia.
140 - Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin Laden family, evacuated from United States almost immediately after 11 September.
14 -  Number of Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) agents assigned to track down 1,200 known illegal immigrants in the United States from countries where al-Qa'ida is active.
$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.
1972 -  Year that Bush walked away from his pilot duties in the Texas National Guard, Nearly two years before his six-year obligation was up.
600-700- Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that period.
0 - Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with information about Bush's guard service.
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).
130 - Approximate Number of countries (out of a total of 191 recognised by the United Nations) with a US military presence.
237 - Minimum number of misleading statements on Iraq made by top Bush administration officials between 2002 and January 2004.
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