This is a quiz that you should all take, so should our "elected" officials.
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 our 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: None.
14. Q: How many gallons of agent Orange did America use in Vietnam?
A: 17 million.
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: Was 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: Over65
42. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between
1972 and 1990?
A: 30+
43. Q: How much does the U.S. fund Israel a year?
A:$5 billion
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
49. Q: Has Israel every allowed UN weapons inspections?
A: No
50. Q: What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled
by Israeli settlements?
A: 42%
51. Q: Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land?
A: Yes
52. Q: Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to
global peace: Iraq or the U.S.?
A: ????
53. Q: Who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become
silent about things that matter"?
A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr