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Anas Alabbadi
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Some Facts and Figures
March 26, 2003 - 08:58 AM
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SOME FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT WHERE
THE HELL WE ARE RIGHT NOW
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: 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 2003?
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
Donald Grayston, PhD
Director, Institute for the Humanities
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
tel: 604/291-5516 / fax: 604/291-4504
website: www.sfu.ca (Academic Programs - Humanities)
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Katia Berdichevsky
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Re: Some Facts and Figures
March 26, 2003 - 09:32 AM
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Thank you. This information is not new, nor shocking, and I thank you for having the time and the patience to put it together so that those that are not aware of these facts, or choose to blind themselves from seeing them as such, can take a good look and see WHY the rest of the world is a tad bit suspicious and very very angered by this war.
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Re: Some Facts and Figures
September 8, 2003 - 06:52 AM
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It’s really cool to see the issue of depleted uranium mentioned in your statistics. The subject isn’t talked about enough. The people who have these weapons aren’t stratified killing people, they have to make generations to come also suffer.
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Thank You Anas !!!
September 10, 2003 - 09:37 AM
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Shoukran Anas for the facts that you have provided us to see. Some of us need reminder of how unfair this war IS !!! Keep it up Anas !!! and welcome on board !!!
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Re: Some Facts and Figures
September 10, 2003 - 12:26 PM
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Great facts Anas. The world needs to know the truth!
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I got to know it now
October 26, 2003 - 04:16 AM
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I got to know all this after the war , even then its great to know all this, thanks a lot for sharing all this.
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