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From: "Carlos E. Kruytbosch" <carlosek@yahoo.com>
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To: "Carlos E. Kruytbosch" <carlosek@yahoo.com>,
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>Thanks for the Post article. And here's something for you.
>J.
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>Take the 'War'-on- Iraq IQ Test. Pass this info on to others. It
>probably will not stop any war, but it gives great perspective.
>
>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 1980s.
>
>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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Elvi Whittaker
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1
Canada
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