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Some very basic facts.....
IRAQ WAR FACTS was contributed by a listener and compiled by the the Oregon Center for Public Policy, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War & other listed sources.
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 annually worldwide for military purposes?
A: $900 + billion
6. Q: How much of this amount is spent by the U.S. government?
A: 50%
7. Q: What percent of US military spending would ensure that everyone in the world receive the essentials for life according to the UN?
A: 10%
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 1980's.
10. Q: Is Iraq solely responsible for developing these chemical biological weapons?
A: No, the materials and technology were supplied to Iraq by the US and British governments along private corporations.
11. Q: Did the US government condemn Iraq for the use of gas warfare against Iran in the Iran-Iraq war?
A: No
12. Q: How many people are purported to have been killed 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 the Vietnam war?
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 1990 Gulf War?
A: 35,000 Iraqis
17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the US forces during the 1990 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 used in the bombing of Iraq
by the U.S. during the 1990 Gulf War?
A: 40 tons
20. Q: What, according to the UN, was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994 as a result of the US use of nuclear weapons?
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 it did 10 years ago?
A: No
24. Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted if they attack 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. been bombing Iraq?
A: 13 years
27. Q: Were the U.S and the UK considered to be 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 weapons inspector
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: Has Iraq allowed 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 in the world to use nuclear weapons?
A: the US
The following information was compiled from various sources including: Harper's, Inter-Church Action, Haliftax Herald, Peace Magazine, New York Times, and CNN.
value of 100 Iraqi dinars in 1990: $400.00 in 2000: 0.6 cents
Amount generated by UN's Oil for Food program per person per day: 70 cents
Decline in Oil for Food revenues after U.S. and Britain impose new pricing system in 2001: 40%
Increase in cost of food since 1990: 12,000 times
Number of Iraqis who depend upon their government for food: 80%
Number of water pumping stations bombed by US in Gulf war: 4 of 7
Iraqi hospitals bombed by US in Gulf War: 28
Percentage of Iraqi hospital equipment no longer working (1997): 75%
Value of medical equipment held by UN Sanctions Committee as "dual use" (2001): $1 billion
Number of times by July 2000 that the U.S. and Britain had vetoed humanitarian goods to Iraq as "dual use": 1,989
Items which were considered to be "dual use" by US government and therefore banned in Iraq: school supplies, desks, tables, paper, wastepaper baskets, pens, ink, pencils, baking soda, shampoo, shoes, coffins, needles for syringes, catheter bags, vaccines, ventilators, cardiac equipment, incubators, sterilizers, medical journals, violin strings
Year in which the U.S. blocked export of 200 Canadian ambulances to Iraq: 2002
Estimated cost of another war on Iraq: $50 - 200 billion dollars US
Number of Iraqi children estimated to die each month from sanction-relatedcauses: 4,500
Total Number of people killed in September 11th: 3,031
The countries the US has bombed since WWII (compiled by historian William Blum):
1. China 1945-46
2. Korea 1950-53
3. China 1950-53
4. Guatemala 1954
5. Indonesia 1958
6. Cuba 1959-60
7. Guatemala 1960
8. Congo 1964
9. Peru 1965
10. Laos 1964-73
11. Vietnam 1961-73
12. Cambodia 1969-70
13. Guatemala 1967-69
14. Grenada 1983
15. Libya 1986
16. El Salvador 1980s
17. Nicaragua 1980s
18. Panama 1989
19. Iraq 1991-2003
20. Sudan 1998
21. Yugoslavia 1999
22. Afghanistan 1998, 2001-2002
23. Iraq 1998 - 2003
How many of these countries have formed a democratic government as a result
of the military action:
(a) 0
(b) 0
(c) 0
(d) 0
This quiz compliments of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Ben Chitty USN 65-9 VN 66-7 68 NY/VVAW
Peace Center P.O. Box 36, San Antonio, Texas 78291
Number of military actions where the United States has been the aggressor since World War II: nearly 200 (Gore Vidal - Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace)
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