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</font><h1><b>Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards
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</a></font><h3><b>By Graydon Carter<br><br>
<br><br>
</b></h3><h4><b>03 September 2004</b></h4><font size=3><b>1</b> Number of
Bush administration public statements on National security issued between
20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned al-Qa'ida.
<br><br>
<b>104</b> Number of Bush administration public statements on National
security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam
Hussein. <br><br>
<b>101</b> Number of Bush administration public statements on National
security and defence in the same period that mentioned missile defence.
<br><br>
<b>65</b> Number of Bush administration public statements on National
security and defence in the same period that mentioned weapons of mass
destruction. <br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Laden in his three
State of the Union addresses. <br><br>
<b>73</b> Number of times that Bush mentioned terrorism or terrorists in
his three State of the Union addresses. <br><br>
<b>83</b> Number of times Bush mentioned Saddam, Iraq, or regime (as in
change) in his three State of the Union addresses. <br><br>
<b>$1m</b> Estimated value of a painting the Bush Presidential Library in
College Station, Texas, received from Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia's
ambassador to the United States and Bush family friend. <br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of times Bush mentioned Saudi Arabia in his three State
of the Union addresses. <br><br>
<b>1,700</b> Percentage increase between 2001 and 2002 of Saudi Arabian
spending on public relations in the United States. <br><br>
<b>79</b> Percentage of the 11 September hijackers who came from Saudi
Arabia. <br><br>
<b>3</b> Number of 11 September hijackers whose entry visas came through
special US-Saudi "Visa Express" programme. <br><br>
<b>140</b> Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin Laden family,
evacuated from United States almost immediately after 11 September.
<br><br>
<b>14</b> 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. <br><br>
<b>$3m</b> Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11
Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks. <br><br>
<b>$0</b> Amount approved by George Bush to hire more INS special agents.
<br><br>
<b>$10m </b>Amount Bush cut from the INS's existing terrorism budget.
<br><br>
<b>$50m </b>Amount granted to the commission that looked into the
<i>Columbia</i> space shuttle crash. <br><br>
<b>$5m</b> Amount a 1996 federal commission was given to study legalised
gambling. <br><br>
<b>7</b> Number of Arabic linguists fired by the US army between
mid-August and mid-October 2002 for being gay. <br><br>
<b>George Bush: Military man <br><br>
1972</b> Year that Bush walked away from his pilot duties in the Texas
National Guard, Nearly two years before his six-year obligation was up.
<br><br>
<b>$3,500 </b>Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for anyone who
could confirm Bush's Alabama guard service. <br><br>
<b>600-700</b> Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that
period. <br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with
information about Bush's guard service. <br><br>
<b>0</b> 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).
<br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of principal civilian or Pentagon staff members who
planned the war who have immediate family members serving in uniform in
Iraq. <br><br>
<b>8</b> Number of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives
who have a child serving in the military. <br><br>
<b>10</b> Number of days that the Pentagon spent investigating a soldier
who had called the President "a joke" in a letter to the editor
of a Newspaper. <br><br>
<b>46</b> Percentage increase in sales between 2001 and 2002 of GI Joe
figures (children's toys). <br><br>
<b>Ambitious warrior <br><br>
2</b> Number of Nations that George Bush has attacked and taken over
since coming into office. <br><br>
<b>130</b> Approximate Number of countries (out of a total of 191
recognised by the United Nations) with a US military presence. <br><br>
<b>43</b> Percentage of the entire world's military spending that the US
spends on defence. (That was in 2002, the year before the invasion of
Iraq.) <br><br>
<b>$401.3bn</b> Proposed military budget for 2004. <br><br>
<b>Saviour of Iraq <br><br>
1983</b> The year in which Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan's special envoy
to the Middle East, gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden spurs as a gift.
<br><br>
<b>2.5</b> Number of hours after Rumsfeld learnt that Osama bin Laden was
a suspect in the 11 September attacks that he brought up reasons to
"hit" Iraq. <br><br>
<b>237</b> Minimum number of misleading statements on Iraq made by top
Bush administration officials between 2002 and January 2004, according to
the California Representative Henry Waxman. <br><br>
<b>10m</b> Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets
on 21 February 2003, in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, the largest
simultaneous protest in world history. <br><br>
<b>$2bn</b> Estimated monthly cost of US military presence in Iraq
projected by the White House in April 2003. <br><br>
<b>$4bn</b> Actual monthly cost of the US military presence in Iraq
according to Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld in 2004. <br><br>
<b>$15m </b>Amount of a contract awarded to an American firm to build a
cement factory in Iraq. <br><br>
<b>$80,000</b> Amount an Iraqi firm spent (using Saddam's confiscated
funds) to build the same factory, after delays prevented the American
firm from starting it. <br><br>
<b>2000</b> Year that Cheney said his policy as CEO of Halliburton oil
services company was "we wouldn't do anything in Iraq".
<br><br>
<b>$4.7bn</b> Total value of contracts awarded to Halliburton in Iraq and
Afghanistan. <br><br>
<b>$680m</b> Estimated value of Iraq reconstruction contracts awarded to
Bechtel. <br><br>
<b>$2.8bn</b>Value of Bechtel Corp contracts in Iraq. <br><br>
<b>$120bn</b> Amount the war and its aftermath are projected to cost for
the 2004 fiscal year. <br><br>
<b>35</b> Number of countries to which the United States suspended
military assistance after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans
immunity from prosecution before the International Criminal Court.
<br><br>
<b>92</b> Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to potable water
in late 2002. <br><br>
<b>60</b> Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to potable water
in late 2003. <br><br>
<b>55</b> Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who were unemployed before
the war. <br><br>
<b>80</b> Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who are unemployed a Year
after the war. <br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi
surrender in May 1945. <br><br>
<b>37</b> Death toll of US soldiers in Iraq in May 2003, the month combat
operations "officially" ended. <br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home that the Bush
administration has permitted to be photographed. <br><br>
<b>0 </b>Number of memorial services for the returned dead that Bush has
attended since the beginning of the war. <br><br>
<b>A soldier's best friend <br><br>
40,000 </b>Number of soldiers in Iraq seven months after start of the war
still without Interceptor vests, designed to stop a round from an AK-47.
<br><br>
<b>$60m</b> Estimated cost of outfitting those 40,000 soldiers with
Interceptor vests. <br><br>
<b>62</b> Percentage of gas masks that army investigators discovered did
Not work properly in autumn 2002. <br><br>
<b>90</b> Percentage of detectors which give early warning of a
biological weapons attack found to be defective. <br><br>
<b>87</b> Percentage of Humvees in Iraq not equipped with armour capable
of stopping AK-47 rounds and protecting against roadside bombs and
landmines at the end of 2003. <br><br>
<b>Making the country safer <br><br>
$3.29</b> Average amount allocated per person Nationwide in the first
round of homeland security grants. <br><br>
<b>$94.40 </b>Amount allocated per person for homeland security in
American Samoa. <br><br>
<b>$36 </b>Amount allocated per person for homeland security in Wyoming,
Vice-President Cheney's home state. <br><br>
<b>$17 </b>Amount allocated per person in New York state. <br><br>
<b>$5.87 </b>Amount allocated per person in New York City. <br><br>
<b>$77.92</b> Amount allocated per person in New Haven, Connecticut, home
of Yale University, Bush's alma mater. <br><br>
<b>76</b> Percentage of 215 cities surveyed by the US Conference of
Mayors in early 2004 that had yet to receive a dime in federal homeland
security assistance for their first-response units. <br><br>
<b>5</b> Number of major US airports at the beginning of 2004 that the
Transportation Security Administration admitted were Not fully screening
baggage electronically. <br><br>
<b>22,600</b> Number of planes carrying unscreened cargo that fly into
New York each month. <br><br>
<b>5</b> Estimated Percentage of US air cargo that is screened, including
cargo transported on passenger planes. <br><br>
<b>95</b> Percentage of foreign goods that arrive in the United States by
sea. <br><br>
<b>2</b> Percentage of those goods subjected to thorough inspection.
<br><br>
<b>$5.5bn</b>Estimated cost to secure fully US ports over the Next
decade. <br><br>
<b>$0 </b>Amount Bush allocated for port security in 2003. <br><br>
<b>$46m </b>Amount the Bush administration has budgeted for port security
in 2005. <br><br>
<b>15,000</b> Number of major chemical facilities in the United States.
<br><br>
<b>100</b> Number of US chemical plants where a terrorist act could
endanger the lives of more than one million people. <br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of new drugs or vaccines against "priority
pathogens" listed by the Centres for Disease Control that have been
developed and introduced since 11 September 2001. <br><br>
<b>Giving a hand up to the advantaged <br><br>
$10.9m</b> Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person
cabinet. <br><br>
<b>75</b> Percentage of Americans unaffected by Bush's sweeping 2003 cuts
in capital gains and dividends taxes. <br><br>
<b>$42,000</b> Average savings members of Bush's cabinet received in 2003
as a result of cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes. <br><br>
<b>10</b> Number of fellow members from the Yale secret society Skull and
Bones that Bush has named to important positions (including the Associate
Attorney General Robert McCallum Jr. and SEC chief Bill Donaldson).
<br><br>
<b>79</b> Number of Bush's initial 189 appointees who also served in his
father's administration. <br><br>
<b>A man with a lot of friends <br><br>
$113m </b>Amount of total hard money the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign
received, a record. <br><br>
<b>$11.5m </b>Amount of hard money raised through the Pioneer programme,
the controversial fund-raising process created for the Bush-Cheney 2000
campaign. (Participants pledged to raise at least $100,000 by bundling
together cheques of up to $1,000 from friends and family. Pioneers were
assigned numbers, which were included on all cheques, enabling the
campaign to keep track of who raised how much.) <br><br>
<b>George Bush: Money manager <br><br>
4.7m</b> Number of bankruptcies that were declared during Bush's first
three years in office. <br><br>
<b>2002</b> The worst year for major markets since the recession of the
1970s. <br><br>
<b>$489bn</b> The US trade deficit in 2003, the worst in history for a
single year. <br><br>
<b>$5.6tr</b> Projected national surplus forecast by the end of the
decade when Bush took office in 2001. <br><br>
<b>$7.22tr</b> US national debt by mid-2004. <br><br>
<b>George Bush: Tax cutter <br><br>
87</b> Percentage of American families in April 2004 who say they have
felt no benefit from Bush's tax cuts. <br><br>
<b>39</b> Percentage of tax cuts that will go to the top 1 per cent of
American families when fully phased in. <br><br>
<b>49</b> Percentage of Americans in April 2004 who found that their
taxes had actually gone up since Bush took office. <br><br>
<b>88</b> Percentage of American families who will save less than $100 on
their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and
dividends taxes. <br><br>
<b>$30,858 </b>Amount Bush himself saved in taxes in 2003. <br><br>
<b>Employment tsar <br><br>
9.3m</b> Number of US unemployed in April 2004. <br><br>
<b>2.3m</b> Number of Americans who lost their jobs during first three
Years of the Bush administration. <br><br>
<b>22m</b> Number of jobs gained during Clinton's eight years in office.
<br><br>
<b>Friend of the poor <br><br>
34.6m</b> Number of Americans living below the poverty line (1 in 8 of
the population). <br><br>
<b>6.8m</b> Number of people in the workforce but still classified as
poor. <br><br>
<b>35m</b> Number of Americans that the government defines as "food
insecure," in other words, hungry. <br><br>
<b>$300m </b>Amount cut from the federal programme that provides
subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes. <br><br>
<b>40</b> Percentage of wealth in the United States held by the richest 1
per cent of the population. <br><br>
<b>18</b> Percentage of wealth in Britain held by the richest 1e per cent
of the population. <br><br>
<b>George Bush And his special friend <br><br>
$60bn</b> Loss to Enron stockholders, following the largest bankruptcy in
US history. <br><br>
<b>$205m </b>Amount Enron CEO Kenneth Lay earned from stock option
profits over a four-year period. <br><br>
<b>$101m </b>Amount Lay made from selling his Enron shares just before
the company went bankrupt. <br><br>
<b>$59,339 </b>Amount the Bush campaign reimbursed Enron for 14 trips on
its corporate jet during the 2000 campaign. <br><br>
<b>30</b> Length of time in months between Enron's collapse and Lay (whom
the President called "Kenny Boy") still not being charged with
a crime. <br><br>
<b>George Bush: Lawman <br><br>
15</b> Average number of minutes Bush spent reviewing capital punishment
cases while governor of Texas. <br><br>
<b>46</b> Percentage of Republican federal judges when Bush came to
office. <br><br>
<b>57</b> Percentage of Republican federal judges after three years of
the Bush administration. <br><br>
<b>33</b> Percentage of the $15bn Bush pledged to fight Aids in Africa
that must go to abstinence-only programmes. <br><br>
<b>The Civil libertarian <br><br>
680</b> Number of suspected al-Qa'ida members that the United States
admits are detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. <br><br>
<b>42</b> Number of nationalities of those detainees at Guantanamo.
<br><br>
<b>22</b> Number of hours prisoners were handcuffed, shackled, and made
to wear surgical masks, earmuffs, and blindfolds during their flight to
Guantanamo. <br><br>
<b>32</b> Number of confirmed suicide attempts by Guantanamo Bay
prisoners. <br><br>
<b>24</b> Number of prisoners in mid-2003 being monitored by
psychiatrists in Guantanamo's new mental ward. <br><br>
<b>A health-conscious president <br><br>
43.6m</b> Number of Americans without health insurance by the end of 2002
(more than 15 per cent of the population). <br><br>
<b>2.4m</b> Number of Americans who lost their health insurance during
Bush's first year in office. <br><br>
<b>Environmentalist <br><br>
$44m </b>Amount the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign and the Republican National
Committee received in contributions from the fossil fuel, chemical,
timber, and mining industries. <br><br>
<b>200</b> Number of regulation rollbacks downgrading or weakening
environmental laws in Bush's first three years in office. <br><br>
<b>31</b> Number of Bush administration appointees who are alumni of the
energy industry (includes four cabinet secretaries, the six most powerful
White House officials, and more than 20 other high-level appointees).
<br><br>
<b>50</b> Approximate number of policy changes and regulation rollbacks
injurious to the environment that have been announced by the Bush
administration on Fridays after 5pm, a time that makes it all but
impossible for news organisations to relay the information to the widest
possible audience. <br><br>
<b>50</b> Percentage decline in Environmental Protection Agency
enforcement actions against polluters under Bush's watch. <br><br>
<b>34</b> Percentage decline in criminal penalties for environmental
crimes since Bush took office. <br><br>
<b>50</b> Percentage decline in civil penalties for environmental crimes
since Bush took office. <br><br>
<b>$6.1m </b>Amount the EPA historically valued each human life when
conducting economic analyses of proposed regulations. <br><br>
<b>$3.7m </b>Amount the EPA valued each human life when conducting
analyses of proposed regulations during the Bush administration.
<br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of times Bush mentioned global warming, clean air, clean
water, pollution or environment in his 2004 State of the Union speech.
His father was the last president to go through an entire State of the
Union address without mentioning the environment. <br><br>
<b>1</b> Number of paragraphs devoted to global warming in the EPA's
600-page "Draft Report on the Environment" presented in 2003.
<br><br>
<b>68</b> Number of days after taking office that Bush decided Not to
ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty to reduce greenhouse
gases by roughly 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012. The United
States was to cut its level by 7 per cent. <br><br>
<b>1</b> The rank of the United States worldwide in terms of greenhouse
gas emissions. <br><br>
<b>25</b> Percentage of overall worldwide carbon dioxide emissions the
United States is responsible for. <br><br>
<b>53</b> Number of days after taking office that Bush reneged on his
campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
<br><br>
<b>14</b> Percentage carbon dioxide emissions will increase over the next
10 years under Bush's own global-warming plan (an increase of 30 per cent
above their 1990 levels). <br><br>
<b>408</b> Number of species that could be extinct by 2050 if the
global-warming trend continues. <br><br>
<b>5</b> Number of years the Bush administration said in 2003 that global
warming must be further studied before substantive action could be taken.
<br><br>
<b>62</b> Number of members of Cheney's 63-person Energy Task Force with
ties to corporate energy interests. <br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of environmentalists asked to attend Cheney's Energy Task
Force meetings. <br><br>
<b>6</b> Number of months before 11 September that Cheney's Energy Task
Force investigated Iraq's oil reserves. <br><br>
<b>2</b> Percentage of the world's population that is British. <br><br>
<b>2</b> Percentage of the world's oil used by Britain. <br><br>
<b>5</b> Percentage of the world's population that is American.
<br><br>
<b>25</b> Percentage of the world's oil used by America. <br><br>
<b>63</b> Percentage of oil the United States imported in 2003, a record
high. <br><br>
<b>24,000</b> Estimated number of premature deaths that will occur under
Bush's Clear Skies initiative. <br><br>
<b>300</b> Number of Clean Water Act violations by the mountaintop-mining
industry in 2003. <br><br>
<b>750,000</b> Tons of toxic waste the US military, the world's biggest
polluter, generates around the world each Year. <br><br>
<b>$3.8bn</b> Amount in the Superfund trust fund for toxic site clean-ups
in 1995, the Year "polluter pays" fees expired. <br><br>
<b>$0m </b>Amount of uncommitted dollars in the Superfund trust fund for
toxic site clean-ups in 2003. <br><br>
<b>270</b> Estimated number of court decisions citing federal Negligence
in endangered-species protection that remained unheeded during the first
year of the Bush administration. <br><br>
<b>100</b> Percentage of those decisions that Bush then decided to allow
the government to ignore indefinitely. <br><br>
<b>68.4</b> Average Number of species added to the Endangered and
Threatened Species list each year between 1991 and 2000. <br><br>
<b>0</b> Number of endangered species voluntarily added by the Bush
administration since taking office. <br><br>
<b>50</b> Percentage of screened workers at Ground Zero who now suffer
from long-term health problems, almost half of whom don't have health
insurance. <br><br>
<b>78</b> Percentage of workers at Ground Zero who now suffer from lung
ailments. <br><br>
<b>88</b> Percentage of workers at Ground Zero who Now suffer from ear,
nose, or throat problems. <br><br>
<b>22</b> Asbestos levels at Ground Zero were 22 times higher than the
levels in Libby, Montana, where the W R Grace mine produced one of the
worst Superfund disasters in US history. <br><br>
<b>Image booster for the US <br><br>
2,500</b> Number of public-diplomacy officers employed by the State
Department to further the image of the US abroad in 1991. <br><br>
<b>1,200</b> Number of public-diplomacy officers employed by the State
Department to further US image abroad in 2004. <br><br>
<b>4</b> Rank of the United States among countries considered to be the
greatest threats to world peace according to a 2003 Pew Global Attitudes
study (Israel, Iran, and North Korea were considered more dangerous; Iraq
was considered less dangerous). <br><br>
<b>$66bn</b> Amount the United States spent on international aid and
diplomacy in 1949. <br><br>
<b>$23.8bn</b> Amount the United States spent on international aid and
diplomacy in 2002. <br><br>
<b>85</b> Percentage of Indonesians who had an unfavourable image of the
United States in 2003. <br><br>
<b>Second-party endorsements <br><br>
90</b> Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was handling
his job as president on 26 September 2001. <br><br>
<b>67</b> Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 26 September 2002. <br><br>
<b>54</b> Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 30 September, 2003. <br><br>
<b>50</b> Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 15 October 2003. <br><br>
<b>49</b> Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president in May 2004. <br><br>
<b>More like the French than he would care to admit <br><br>
28</b> Number of vacation days Bush took in August 2003, the
second-longest vacation of any president in US history. (Record holder
Richard Nixon.) <br><br>
<b>13</b> Number of vacation days the average American receives each
Year. <br><br>
<b>28</b> Number of vacation days Bush took in August 2001, the month he
received a 6 August Presidential Daily Briefing headed "Osama bin
Laden Determined to Strike US Targets." <br><br>
<b>500</b> Number of days Bush has spent all or part of his time away
from the White House at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, his parents'
retreat in Kennebunkport, Maine, or Camp David as of 1 April 2004.
<br><br>
<b>No fool when it comes to the press <br><br>
11</b> Number of press conferences during his first three Years in office
in which Bush referred to questions as being "trick" ones.
<br><br>
<b>Factors in his favour <br><br>
3</b> Number of companies that control the US voting technology market.
<br><br>
<b>52</b> Percentage of votes cast during the 2002 midterm elections that
were recorded by Election Systems & Software, the largest
voting-technology firm, a big Republican donor. <br><br>
<b>29</b> Percentage of votes that will be cast via computer voting
machines that don't produce a paper record. <br><br>
<b>17On 17</b> November 2001, <i>The Economist </i>printed a correction
for having said George Bush was properly elected in 2000. <br><br>
<b>$113m </b>Amount raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign, the most in
American electoral history. <br><br>
<b>$185m </b>Amount raised by the Bush-Cheney 2004 re-election campaign,
to the end of March 2004. <br><br>
<b>$200m</b> Amount that the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign expects to raise
by November 2004. <br><br>
<b>268</b> Number of Bush-Cheney fund-raisers who had earned Pioneer
status (by raising $100,000 each) as of March 2004. <br><br>
<b>187</b> Number of Bush-Cheney fund-raisers who had earned Ranger
status (by raising $200,000 each) as of March 2004. <br><br>
<b>$64.2mThe </b>Amount Pioneers and Rangers had raised for Bush-Cheney
as of March 2004. <br><br>
<b>85</b> Percentage of Americans who can't Name the Chief Justice of the
United States. <br><br>
<b>69</b> Percentage of Americans who believed the White House's claims
in September 2003 that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 11
September attacks. <br><br>
<b>34</b> Percentage of Americans who believed in June 2003 that Saddam's
"weapons of mass destruction" had been found. <br><br>
<b>22</b> Percentage of Americans who believed in May 2003 that Saddam
had used his WMDs on US forces. <br><br>
<b>85</b> Percentage of American young adults who cannot find
Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map. <br><br>
<b>30</b> Percentage of American young adults who cannot find the Pacific
Ocean on a map. <br><br>
<b>75</b> Percentage of American young adults who don't know the
population of the United States. <br><br>
<b>53</b> Percentage of Canadian young adults who don't know the
population of the United States. <br><br>
<b>11</b> Percentage of American young adults who cannot find the United
States on a map. <br><br>
<b>30</b> Percentage of Americans who believe that "politics and
government are too complicated to understand." <br><br>
<b>Another factor in his favour <br><br>
70m</b> Estimated number of Americans who describe themselves as
Evangelicals who accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour and who
interpret the Bible as the direct word of God. <br><br>
<b>23m</b> Number of Evangelicals who voted for Bush in 2000. <br><br>
<b>50m</b> Number of voters in total who voted for Bush in 2000.
<br><br>
<b>46</b> Percentage of voters who describe themselves as born-again
Christians. <br><br>
<b>5</b> Number of states that do not use the word "evolution"
in public school science courses. <br><br>
<i>This is an edited extract from "What We've Lost", by Graydon
Carter, published by Little Brown on 9 September</i> <br><br>
<b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</b> <br><br>
For a former college drop-out from Ontario and, briefly, a lineman
stringing up telegraph wires on the railways of Canada, Graydon Carter,
55, has risen to impressive heights. The editor of <i>Vanity Fair</i>
since 1992 after succeeding Tina Brown he is one of America's
celebrity editors with clout, glamour and a nice line in suits.
<br><br>
It is hard to imagine Carter doing physical work of any kind, beyond
exercising his thumb on his silver Zippo lighter. His labour is
restricted to rejigging headlines in his magazine he is a
self-confessed failure at delegation of duties and swanning to
Manhattan parties. Martini in hand, he cuts an almost princely and
dandyish figure, with billowing shirts and similarly billowing silver
hair. <br><br>
The spotlight on his activities has never burned brighter. In recent
months he has transformed the regular editor's letter at the front of the
magazine into less of a chat about its coming contents the spreads of
Annie Leibowitz and rants of Christopher Hitchens and more a full-bore
diatribe against the world of George Bush. <br><br>
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