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IRAQ WAR FACTS was 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-related causes: 4,500
- Total Number of people killed in September 11th: 3,031
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 (Vidal Gore - Perpetual War for Perpetual
Peace)