"TAKE THE WAR-ON-IRAQ IQ TEST"
By Charles Sheketoff, Executive Director of Oregon Center for Public Policy

Q: What percentage of the world's population does the United States have? A: Six percent

Q: What percentage of the world's wealth does the United States have? A: 50 percent

Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves? A: Saudi Arabia

Q: Which country has the second largest oil reserves? A: Iraq

Q: How much is spent on military budgets a year worldwide? A: 900+ billion dollars

Q: How much of this is spent by the United States? A: 50 percent

Q: What percent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of life to everyone in the world, according to the United Nations? A: 10 percent (that's about 40 billion dollars, the amount of funding initially requested to fund the US retaliatory attack on Afghanistan).

Q: How many people have died in wars since World War II? A: 86 million

Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons? A: Since the early 1980s.

Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical and biological weapons on its own? A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the US government, along with Britain and private corporations.

Q: Did the US government condemn the Iraqi use of gas warfare against Iran? A: No

Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988? A: 5,000

Q: How many Western countries condemned this action at the time? A: 0

Q: How many gallons of Agent Orange did America use in Vietnam? A: 17 million.

Q: Are there any proven links between Iraq and Sept. 11 terrorist attack?

A: No

Q: What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War? A: 35,000

Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the Western forces during the Gulf War? A: 0

Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by US tanks with ploughs mounted on the front? A: 6,000

Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War? A: 40 tons

Q: What according to the UN was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994? A: 700 percent

Q: How much of Iraq's military capacity did America claim it had destroyed in 1991? A: 80 percent

Q: Is there any proof that Iraq plans to use its weapons for anything other than deterrence and self-defense? A: No

Q: Does Iraq present more of a threat to world peace now than 10 years ago?

A: No

Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of an attack on Iraq in 2002/3? A: 10,000

Q: What percentage of these will be children? A: Over 50 percent

Q: How many years has the US engaged in air strikes on Iraq? A: 11 years

Q: Were the United States and the United Kingdom at war with Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? A: No

Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? A: 20 million

Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on Iraq's imports and exports? A: 12 years

Q: What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)? A: 38

Q: What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000 births)?

A: 131 (that's an increase of 345 percent)

Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a result of UN sanctions? A: 1.5 million

Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions since 1997? A: 750,000

Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq? A: No

Q: How many inspections were there in November and December 1998? A: 300

Q: How many of these inspections had problems? A: 5

Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba'ath Party HQ? A: Yes

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

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 percent

Q: Is Iraq willing to allow the weapons inspectors back in? A: Yes

Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992? A: Over 65

Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990?

A: 30+

Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons? A: 8

Q: How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got? A: 0

Q: How many nuclear warheads has the United States got? A: Over 10,000

Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons? A: The United States

Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have? A: Over 400

Q: Who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"? A: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.