More interesting facts from Harpers: Iraq war

Minimum number of misleading statements on Iraq made by the Bush Administration's top officials since March 2002 : 237 [Committee on Government Reform (Washington, D.C.) ]

Percentage of these that contradicted, made selective use of, or mischaracterized existing government intelligence : 100 [Committee on Government Reform (Washington, D.C.)


Days before last year's invasion of Iraq that Osama bin Laden called Saddam Hussein a "socialist infidel" : 36 [Al Jazeera (Doha, Qatar)/BBC Monitoring Service (Caversham Park, U.K.) ]

Days into the 1999 NATO bombing of Kosovo that candidate George W. Bush observed, "Victory means exit strategy" : 17 [Houston Chronicle/NATO (Brussels) ]