{"article":{"id":34640,"heading":"Take the War-on-Iraq IQ Test","author":"C\/O Diogenes","created":"2003-03-11 00:57:56","modified":"2003-03-14 01:37:29","last_modified":"Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:37:29","article":"

Subject: Take the War-on-Iraq IQ Test

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.[exactly as Dec.1984 by Sec.of

Defense-Rumsfeld]

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: 17million.

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: 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+

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

50. Q: Who said, \"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent

about things that matter\"?

A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Charles Sheketoff, Executive Director Oregon Center for Public

Policy PO Box 7, Silverton, OR 97381

--

http:\/\/StandDown.net<\/a>

The United States Government will spend more on the

military in fiscal year 2003, than all the rest of the

countries on Earth combined. Current expenditures are

437 billion and our past obligations are 339 billion,

this equals 776 billion. 46% of our Taxes go to the

Military Industrial Complex:

http:\/\/www.warresisters.org\/piechart.htm<\/a>

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq?","numcomment":18,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/34640.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":34641,"heading":"Quibbles","article":"I have just 2 Quibbles with this test:\r\n\r\nA. The Kurds killed in Halbaja were killed when they were caught in a crossfire between Iranian and Iraqi Army Gas attacks against each other.\r\n\r\nB. The Army's estimate of 10,000 civilian casualties is a conservative estimate. U.N. Estimates put it at 200,000 with a Million refugees.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 01:01:51","modified":"2003-03-11 01:01:51","fileurl":""},{"id":34648,"heading":"I Get The Point, but...","article":"Okay, I understand the need to use facts when attempting to make a point, but sometimes the facts one supplies will be used against them. When facts are vaguely presented and simple conclusions are drawn they seem, well, like an absolute. However...,\r\n\r\nEx: Who has three hundred cheese melts? Chuckee Cheze or the Hambugger?\r\na) chuckee\r\n\r\nwhere does cheese come from? \r\na) cows\r\n\r\nsummary: cows are to blame for the cheese melts that chuck made!\r\n\r\ncircular reasoning will never work.\r\n\r\nps. I thought the US had 1\/3 of the world wealth not 50%. \r\nIs your friend certain about his facts?\r\n\r\njust making a point.\r\n\r\n(pigs in space)\r\n","author":"Weather man","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 01:22:32","modified":"2003-03-11 01:22:32","fileurl":""},{"id":34652,"heading":"Oh, Really?","article":"The biggest lie and misrepresentation in your post was "just making a point". \r\n\r\nThat all depends on "how you define making a point".\r\n\r\nTruth is what you are trying to do is throw doubt upon a damaging, to your side, humor piece by erecting a Straw Man and then tearing him down.\r\n\r\nBullshit!","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 01:26:17","modified":"2003-03-11 01:26:17","fileurl":""},{"id":34665,"heading":"do I know enuff to justify...","article":"a) probably not\r\n\r\nb) can we trust Sodamn enough, not to?\r\n\r\nanswer: a) & b)","author":"..going to war with irak??","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 03:02:02","modified":"2003-03-11 03:02:02","fileurl":""},{"id":34667,"heading":"wow","article":"wow\r\nSodamn @ war\r\nwith irak??\r\nwow","author":"wow","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 03:11:08","modified":"2003-03-11 03:11:08","fileurl":""},{"id":34669,"heading":"Yaaaaaaawn","article":">17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi\r\n> military inflict on the western forces \r\n>during the Gulf War ? \r\n\r\n>A: 0 \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.qmfound.com\/14th_Quartermaster_Detachment.htm\r\n\r\nAt 8:40 pm (12:40 pm EST) on February 25, 1991, parts of an Iraqi SCUD missile destroyed the barracks housing members of the 14th Quartermaster Detachment. In the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war, 29 soldiers died and 99 were wounded. \r\n\r\n================\r\nUncle-ho-chi Seatle needs to feed you better propaganda your "facts" are a joke.","author":"MadMaxim","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 03:23:30","modified":"2003-03-11 03:23:30","fileurl":""},{"id":34671,"heading":"And don't forget","article":"The captured piolet who beat himself up for TV.\r\nThis totally invalidates all posted data, of course.","author":"lancer","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 03:29:40","modified":"2003-03-11 03:29:40","fileurl":""},{"id":34679,"heading":"I am amused","article":"Anytime the Shills take immediate action to discredit something means that it is effective at making a point.\r\n\r\nEven if the Author of the original piece missed a couple of points the fact alone that the Shills are falling all over themselves to find a point of attack means that it has them a little bit disturbed.\r\n\r\nThat being the case, as evidenced by their rapid attack, I am amused at discomfiting them a bit.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 04:28:14","modified":"2003-03-11 04:28:14","fileurl":""},{"id":34692,"heading":"Mummu and Daddy not getting much for their tuition $","article":"\r\nThat all you could come up with?\r\n\r\nBig primate yaaaaaaawn.","author":"MadMaxim","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 04:56:32","modified":"2003-03-11 04:56:32","fileurl":""},{"id":34705,"heading":"Can You Peel Banana's With Your Feet Too?","article":"Given the strength of your rebuttal the Defense Rests.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 05:59:19","modified":"2003-03-11 05:59:19","fileurl":""},{"id":34709,"heading":"Oh, I forgot nobody "Writes" term-papers anymore","article":"See, that's what you get when student's buy their term papers off the internet instead of writing them themselves. (well who's got time to "Study" - gotta go play activist, after all)\r\n\r\nYou never learn to properly research and support your point of view.\r\n\r\nAnd so, as we see above, you just make it up as you go along and pull numbers out of the south end of your digestive tract.\r\n","author":"MadMaxim","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 06:19:21","modified":"2003-03-11 06:19:21","fileurl":""},{"id":34738,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"...sounds lik perfect experience for the NSA....","author":"KPC","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 08:17:09","modified":"2003-03-11 08:17:09","fileurl":""},{"id":34741,"heading":"Are you wearing a tinfoil hat?","article":"I'm having trouble getting a lock on you. \r\n\r\nPlease move a little to your right.","author":"MadMaxim","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 08:33:36","modified":"2003-03-11 08:33:36","fileurl":""},{"id":34742,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"How about I lift my right leg and spread my legs a little more...\r\n\r\n\r\n...but I draw the line on wearin a tin foil hat...that's just too kinky...","author":"KPC","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-11 08:39:03","modified":"2003-03-11 08:39:03","fileurl":""},{"id":35061,"heading":"Mad Maxim","article":"Writing term papers, do you mean like the Brit\u2019s intelligence dossier?\r\nWhat was it, six or nine out of twelve pages plagiarized?\r\n \r\n","author":"Weather man","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 17:51:08","modified":"2013-11-10 23:49:00","fileurl":""},{"id":35064,"heading":"Please Read the Piece","article":"This one is driving the Trolls nutty so I would suggest that makes it a must read.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 17:54:49","modified":"2003-03-12 17:54:49","fileurl":""},{"id":35065,"heading":"Straw Argument, Diogenes","article":"An example of circular reasoning is not a straw argument. \r\n\r\nThe "IQ" test employed circular reasoning.\r\n\r\nYour decision to argue the definition of "point" rather than address the criticism is an example of a straw argument.\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Weather man","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 18:01:03","modified":"2003-03-12 18:01:03","fileurl":""},{"id":35358,"heading":"Oregon Center for Public Policy","article":"

*DO NOT* attribute this item to us. It came into our office without attribution, and our name got associated with it when we in turn sent it on to our personal contacts. We did not author it, nor have we fact-checked it. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

This website claims that it was authored by Dr. Jeremiah Wright - http:\/\/www.thirdworldtraveler.com\/Iraq\/War_Iraq_IQ_Test.html - but we cannot vouch for that either!<\/p>","author":"Jacque Greenleaf","parent_id":34640,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2003-03-14 01:37:29","modified":"2003-03-14 01:37:29","fileurl":""}]}