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5808, Take the Iraq Quiz.
Posted by Orbit_Established, Wed Mar-26-03 08:02 PM

Probably already posted somewhere, but oh well....


"Take the War-on-Iraq IQ Test" by Charles Sheketoff, executive
director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy:

Q: What percentage of the world's population does the United States have?
A: Six percent

Q: What percentage of the world's wealth does the United States have?
A: 50 percent

Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves?
A: Saudi Arabia

Q: Which country has the second largest oil reserves?
A: Iraq


Q: How much is spent on military budgets a year worldwide?
A: 900+ billion dollars

Q: How much of this is spent by the United States? A: 50 percent

Q: What percent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of
life to everyone in the world, according to the United Nations?
A: 10 percent (that's about 40 billion dollars, the amount of funding
initially requested to fund the US retaliatory attack on Afghanistan).


Q: How many people have died in wars since World War II? A: 86 million

Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons?
A: Since the early 1980s.

Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical and biological weapons on its own?
A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the US government,
along with Britain and private corporations.

Q: Did the US government condemn the Iraqi use of gas warfare against
Iran?
A: No

Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town
of Halabja in 1988? A: 5,000

Q: How many Western countries condemned this action at the time?
A: 0

Q: How many gallons of Agent Orange did America use in Vietnam?
A: 17 million.


Q: Are there any proven links between Iraq and Sept. 11 terrorist attack?
A: No

Q: What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War?
A: 35,000

Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the western
forces during the Gulf War?
A: 0

Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by US tanks with
ploughs mounted on the front?
A: 6,000


Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq and Kuwait after
the Gulf War?
A: 40 tons

Q: What according to the UN was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq
between 1991 and 1994?
A: 700 percent


Q: How much of Iraq's military capacity did America claim it had
destroyed in 1991? A: 80 percent

Q: Is there any proof that Iraq plans to use its weapons for anything
other than deterrence and self-defense?
A: No

Q: Does Iraq present more of a threat to world peace now than 10 years
ago?
A: No


Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of
an attack on Iraq in 2002/3?
A: 10,000

Q: What percentage of these will be children?
A: Over 50 percent

Q: How many years has the US engaged in air strikes on Iraq?
A: 11 years

Q: Were the United States and the United Kingdom at war with Iraq
between December 1998 and September 1999?
A: No

Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December
1998 and September 1999?
A: 20 million


Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict
sanctions on Iraq's imports and exports?
A: 12 years

Q: What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)?
A: 38

Q: What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000
births)?
A: 131 (that's an increase of 345 percent)

Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a
result of UN sanctions?
A: 1.5 million

Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions
since 1997?
A: 750,000


Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq?
A: No

Q: How many inspections were there in November and December 1998? A: 300

Q: How many of these inspections had problems? A: 5

Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba'ath Party HQ?
A: Yes

Q: Who said that by December 1998, "Iraq had in fact, been disarmed to a
level unprecedented in modern history."
A: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief

Q: In 1998 how much of Iraq's post-1991 capacity to develop weapons of
mass destruction did the UN weapons inspectors claim to have discovered
and dismantled?
A: 90 percent

Q: Is Iraq willing to allow the weapons inspectors back in?
A: Yes


Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992?
A: Over 65

Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and
1990?
A: 30+


Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons?
A: 8

Q: How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got?
A: 0

Q: How many nuclear warheads has the United States got?
A: Over 10,000

Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons?
A: The United States

Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
A: Over 400



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