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Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq?
> >1. Q: What percentage of the world's population
> does the U.S. have?
> >A: 6%
> >
> >2. Q: What percentage of the world's wealth does
> the U.S. have?
> >A: 50%
> >
> >3. Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves?
> >A: Saudi Arabia
> >
> >4. Q: Which country has the second largest oil
> reserves?
> >A: Iraq
> >
> >5. Q: How much is spent on military budgets a year
> worldwide?
> >A: $900+ billion
> >
> >6. Q: How much of this is spent by the U.S. ?
> >A: 50%
> >
> >7. Q: What percent of US military spending would
> ensure the essentials
> >of life to everyone in the world, according to the
> UN?
> >A: 10% (that's about $40 billion, the amount of
> funding initially
> >requested to fund the US retaliatory attack on
> Afghanistan ).
> >
> >8. Q: How many people have died in wars since World
> War II?
> >A: 86 million
> >
> >9. Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and biological
> weapons?
> >A: Since the early 1980's.
> >
> >10. Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical & biological
> weapons on their
> >own?
> >A: No, the materials and technology were supplied
> by the US government,
> >along with Britain and private corporations.
> >
> >11. Q: Did the US government condemn the Iraqi use
> of gas warfare
> >against Iran?
> >A: No
> >
> >12. Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill
> using gas in the Kurdish
> >town of Halabja in 1988?
> >
> >A: 5,000
> >
> >13. Q: How many western countries condemned this
> action at the time?
> >A: 0
> >
> >14. Q: How many gallons of agent Orange did America
> use in Vietnam?
> >A: 17million.
> >
> >15. Q: Are there any proven links between Iraq and
> September 11th
> >terrorist attack?
> >A: No
> >
> >16. Q: What is the estimated number of civilian
> casualties in the Gulf
> >War?
> >A: 35,000
> >
> >17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military
> inflict on the western
> >forces during the Gulf War ?
> >A: 0
> >
> >18. Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were
> buried alive by U.S.
> >tanks with ploughs mounted on the front?
> >A: 6,000
> >
> >19. Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left
> in Iraq and Kuwait
> >after the Gulf War?
> >A: 40 tons
> >
> >20. Q: What according to the UN was the increase in
> cancer rates in Iraq
> >between 1991 and 1994?
> >A: 700%
> >
> >21. Q: How much of Iraq 's military capacity did
> America claim it had
> >destroyed in 1991?
> >A: 80%
> >
> >22. Q: Is there any proof that Iraq plans to use
> its weapons for
> >anything other than deterrence and self defense?
> >A: No
> >
> >23. Q: Does Iraq present more of a threat to world
> peace now than 10
> >years ago?
> >A: No
> >
> >24. Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon
> predicted in the event
> >of an attack on Iraq in 2002/3?
> >A: 10,000
> >
> >25. Q: What percentage of these will be children?
> >A: Over 50%
> >
> >26. Q: How many years has the U.S. engaged in air
> strikes on Iraq ?
> >A: 11 years
> >
> >27. Q: Were the U.S and the UK at war with Iraq
> between December 1998
> >and September 1999?
> >A: No
> >
> >28. Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped
> on Iraq between
> >December 1998 and September 1999?
> >A: 20 million
> >
> >29. Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661
> introduced, imposing
> >strict sanctions on Iraq 's imports and exports?
> >A: 12 years
> >
> >30. Q: What was the child death rate in Iraq in
> 1989 (per 1,000 births)?
> >
> >A: 38
> >
> >31. Q: What was the estimated child death rate in
> Iraq in 1999 (per
> >1,000 births)?
> >A: 131 (that's an increase of 345%)
> >
> >32. Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died
> by October 1999 as a
> >result of UN sanctions?
> >A: 1.5 million
> >
> >33. Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to
> have died due to
> >sanctions since 1997?
> >A: 750,000
> >
> >34. Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq?
> >A: No
> >
> >35. Q: How many inspections were there in November
> and December 1998?
> >A: 300
> >
> >36. Q: How many of these inspections had problems?
> >A: 5
> >
> >37. Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to
> the Ba'ath Party HQ?
> >
> >A: Yes
> >
> >38. 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
> >
> >39. 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%
> >
> >40. Q: Is Iraq willing to allow the weapons
> inspectors back in ?
> >A: Yes
> >
> >41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate
> by 1992?
> >A: Over 65
> >
> >42. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did
> America veto between 1972
> >and 1990?
> >A: 30+
> >
> >44. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear
> weapons?
> >A: 8
> >
> >45. Q: How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got?
> >A: 0
> >
> >46. Q: How many nuclear warheads has US got?
> >A: over 10,000
> >
> >47. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear
> weapons?
> >A: the US
> >
> >48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
> >A: Over 400
> >
> >50. Q: Who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we
> become silent about
> >things that matter"?
> >A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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