Compiled by Keshav Mukunda

Ratio of Canadian expenditure on health and social services to military expenditure (for this year): 17:1

Amount of money required to provide one Afghan family with direct access to safe, clean drinking water - for life: $107

Amount of money the U.S. spends every minute on the military: $582,802

Spending money that George W. Bush could earn per day for laundry duty at the U.N. prison at The Hague, if indicted for crimes committed against humanity: $2

Spending money that George W. Bush has already earned from Congress after September 11th, to be "used at his discretion": $10,000,000,000

U.S. share of global arms trade of major conventional weapons in the last four years: 87%

Number of people beheaded last year under the fundamentalist Wahabi regime in Saudi Arabia: 136

Rank of Saudi Arabia in the list of recipients of arms from the U.S.: 2

Projected U.S. military budget for next year: $343 billion

Amount of money this comes to per person on the planet: $54

Number of months that one Afghan can be fed with this money: 3

U.S. share of total military spending in the world: 36%

Number of times larger than the second largest share (Russia): 6

Number of countries that the U.S. supplied with major conventional weapons in the last four years: 144

Total number of countries in the world: 191

Number of kilograms of bombs, mines and missiles one B-52 carries: 31,500

Number of kilograms of food dropped in Afghanistan by one cargo flight: 18,750

Number of tonnes of cereal grain required to be imported into Afghanistan for next year, due to this years drought: 2,300,000

Approximate price of this amount of cereal grain: $897 million

Total value of arms sales by Raytheon Systems Company, Arizona in 1999: $12,480 million

Price of one Tomahawk Cruise missile made by this company: $600,000

Number of families in Afghanistan that can be given tools and seeds with this money so that they will be self-reliant next year: 40,000

Number of metres off-target a "smart" missile can be, with a GPS quality handoff from the aircraft that releases it: 30

Number of seconds it takes a healthy human being to run that distance: 4.2

Number of metres off-target a "smart" missile can be, when a GPS quality handoff from the aircraft is not given: who knows?