Federal funds given last September to a group organizing the recall of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez : $53,400 [National Endowment for Democracy (Washington) ]
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) ]
