Sister Jabou thank you for this infomative post .
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From: "Jabou Joh" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:13:34 EST
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> Subject: Food for Thought
>
> While I cannot vouch for the current accuracy of this information, I
> thought it worth passing on to you--if only to engage your thought
> on the matters covered in this Q & A.
>
> Phyllis
>
>
> Food for thought. If you start, be sure and read it all the way through.
> Here goes...
>
> 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 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: 0
>
> 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 death s 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+
>
> 43 Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons?
>
> A: 8
>
> 44 Q: How many nuclear warheads does Iraq have?
>
> A: 0
>
> 45 Q: How many nuclear warheads does the US have?
>
> A: Over 10,000
>
> 46 Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons?
>
> A: The US
>
> 47 Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
>
> A: Over 400
>
> 48Q: 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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