With apologies to Harper’s

• 6 - Number of people in 1,000-person U.S. embassy in Baghdad who can speak Arabic fluently.
• 46 - Percent of Americans surveyed who believe that Saddam was connected to the 9/11 attacks.
• 61 - Percent of Iraqis surveyed who approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces.
• 93 - Acts of violence for a single day in July in Iraq as reported by the U.S. military.
• 1,100 - Acts of violence that the Iraq Study Group found had actually occurred on that day.
• 100,000 - Number of Iraqis fleeing their country every month.
• 152,000 - Number of U.S. troops in Iraq.
• 100,000 - Number of U.S. government contractors in Iraq.
• $348,000,000,000 - Current cost to the U.S. of the war in Iraq.
• 2,935 - U.S. Service members killed in Iraq.