Chinpy's Farewell by the numbers

A Jossip Index for the Bush Farewell


Here, George W. Bush's farewell address, by the numbers:

Number of times Bush said "God": 3

Number of times Bush said "bless" or a variant thereof: 4

Number of times Bush said "threat": 3

Number of times Bush said "Hurricane Katrina": 1

Number of times Bush proudly discussed how the military is now deploying 60-year-old men to Iraq: 1

Number of times Bush called Iraq a "friend of the United States": 1

Number of United States soldiers killed by Iraqi insurgents since the start of the war: 4,226

Number of times Bush called Iraq a "brutal dictatorship": 1

Factor by which an Iraqi in 2006 was more likely to die than in the last year of the Saddam regime: 3.6

Occurrences of the statement, "You may not agree with some of the tough decisions I have made. But I hope you can agree that I was willing to make the tough decision": 1

Number to times Bush said "tough" or a variant thereof: 5

Occurrences of the statement, "this great nation will never tire": 1

First words of the fourth result when one Google searches "Americans tired": "Americans are tired of the Iraq war and doubt victory will ever come…"

Number of times the President heralded "freedom": 5

Number of days ago that a secret court released a ruling forcing telecommunications companies to help the government intercept the phone calls and e-mail of suspected terrorists: 1

Number of times Bush admonished Islamic extremists for their treatment of women: 2

Bush administration proposals that would allow medical care providers to refuse to prescribe contraceptives or fill the prescription based on moral grounds: 1

Number of times Bush said America is a "nation where citizens show calm in times of danger and compassion in the face of suffering": 1

Number of days ago a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers who stormed the big box store: 49

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