Bobert: "It has been reported that over 3000 sorties were flown in the pre-mission-accomplished days... Now each sortie is an individual flight with a mutitude of bombs dropped from each one... Now if you average that an F-16 alone can drop a half a dozen bombs and bombers hundreds of bombs it is not out of reason that upwards of of 100,000 or so bombs were dropped on Iraq..."

Mother Jones: "Total air sorties, 41,000; Strike Sorties, 15,500; Bombs Dropped, 27,000. And that only covers the pre-"Mission Accomplished" phase of the war."

So MJ ( if YOU accept thier figures- they DO have a slight interest in producing a biased viewpoint) said 27000 / 41000 bombs per sortie DURING THE ATTACK
http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2005/03/iraq_year_three.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2950837.stm

Of course, it could ALL just be proganda.
0.659 bombs per sortie INCLUDING the B-52s DURING the attack...


I think the 17,000 +/- bombs is a little more accurate than your WAG.