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test on war on Iraq



Here's some information worth knowing that you'll never get on CNN. Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq? Take the War on Iraq IQ Test:

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 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 and 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:None ; why?



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: None



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: Was 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 much does the U.S. fund Israel a year? A: $5 billion



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

45. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Iraq have? A: None



46. Q: How many nuclear warheads does US have? 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

49. Q: Has Israel ever allowed UN weapons inspections? A: No



50. Q: What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled by Israeli settlements? A: 42%

51. Q: Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land? A: Yes



52. Q: Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.? A: ? Many says US ???

53. Q: 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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Israeli Nukes

Has the world forgotten the revelations made by Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli Nuclear Technician, in late 1986? Israel's nuclear program began in 1950's through the collaboration of French government with Israel (David Ben Gurion and Shimon Peres) to set up a Nuclear reactor and associated facilities in the Negev Desert, proclaimed in the beginning as a textile factory.



But the U-2 Spy Plane photographs unraveled this mystery, for which some people believe John F. Kennedy lost his life, because he was about to disclose the real nature of this facility as determined from those aerial photographs. Later for many years Israel would not even allow any American government official to visit that place. But Vanunu before leaving that place had taken photographs of forbidden areas that the British authorities conformed as genuine pictures and estimated around that time that Israel had more than two hundred nuclear warheads and some were thermo-nuclear devices (aka hydrogen bombs).



Here are important dates in Israel's Nuclear Program:

1949: Visit to Israel of French nuclear scientist Francis Perrin. Israel discovers uranium in the Negev desert.



1952: Creation of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) under the authority of Defense Ministry. Development of Dostrovsky method for production of Heavy water.



1953: Department of Nuclear Physics established at the Weizmann Institute. French-Israeli nuclear cooperation agreement.



1955: First discussion of nuclear cooperation with South Africa. Start of U.S.-Israeli nuclear cooperation.



1957: Secret agreement with France to build Dimona reactor (initially dubbed as textile factory) and plutonium separation plant.

1958: Department of Nuclear Science established at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).



1960: Research reactor at Nahal Soreq goes on line. Ben Gurion tells Kenesset about the Dimona reactor. 1963: Dimona reactor goes on line. Regular shipments of uranium from South Africa begin.



1966: Levi Wshkol reorganizes Israel Atomic Energy Commission, Bergmann resigs as Chairman. Eshkol cuts a deal with President Johnson and freezes Israeli unclear program. Israeli nuclear test in Negev.



1967: Degaulle severs ties with Israel. Moshe Dayan launches plans to accelerate Israel's nuclear program. 1968: Cabinet capitulates to Dayan's nuclear agenda. CIA suspects Israel of having nuclear weapons.



1972: Technological breakthroughs made in uranium enrichment (laser method).



1973: Golda Meier gives the order to arm nuclear warheads during Yom Kippur War.



1976: South African President Vorster visits Israel; new nuclear agreement forged.



1977: Israeli-South African test in in Kalahari desert detected by Soviet satellite and blocked by U.S. intervention.



1979: Israeli-South African test off South Africa coast. VELA satellite (U.S.) records the explosion signature.



1982: President Reagan sells advanced computers to Iraq.



References:



1. Gaffney, Mark, "DIMONA - The Third Temple? The Story Behind The Revelation," Amana Books, Brattleboro, VT 1989. ISBN 0-915597-77-2.



2. Cohen, Avner, "Israel And The Bomb," Columbia University Press, New York, NY 1998. ISBN 0-231-10482-0.



3. Kohn, Howard, "Who Killed Karen Silkwood?" Summit Books, New York, NY 1981. ISBN 0-671-43654-6 (pbk) [discusses the missing uranium from Kerr-McGee Plant in Oklahoma].



4. Landau, Eli, and Eisenberg, Dennis, "Operation Uranium Ship," Signet Book, New American Library, Time-Mirror, New York, NY 1977.



5. *beep*, Andrew & Leslie, "Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of The U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, " Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY 1991. ISBN 0-06-016444-1. (discusses the missing Uranium from NUMEC plant in Apollo, PA).



6. Toscano, Louis, "Triple Cross: Israel, The Bomb & The Man Who Spilled The Secrets," A Birchlane Press Book, Published by Carol Publishing Group, New York, NY 1990. ISBN 1-55972-028-x.



7. Hersh, Seymour M., "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy," Random House, New York, NY 1991. ISBN 0-394-57006-5



It's not only that Israel has a large stockpile of nuclear weapons, but she also possesses a large stockpile of Chemical and Biological weapons. Thus all PEACE-LOVING people must stress upon the United Nations Weapons Inspection regime that all efforts should be made to send inspectors to Israel as she poses the greatest threat to PEACE not only to the Middle East but the entire world.



Why should the West be partial in this regards to disarm Iraq only and not a state like Israel?



CDLR (The Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Right! s)

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Israel is the ONLY Answer !



Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspection? Answer is ISRAEL











Which country in the Middle East seized sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of UN Security Council Resolutions? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses it confiscated?



Answer is ISRAEL







Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 UN Security Council Resolutions and has been protected by U.S vetoes? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country confiscated almost 750,000 acres of land from the 1.5 million acres comprising the West Bank & Gaza Strip? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country in the Middle East has killed 435 Palestinian school children? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country in the Middle East has demolished 7000 homes? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country in the Middle East had a high ranking United Nations Diplomat assassinated? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country on this planet has the second most powerful lobby force in the United States, according to a recent Fortune Magazine survey of Washington insiders? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country in the Middle East has the authorities forcefully preventing Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homeland against the UN Security Council resolution 194? Answer is ISRAEL





Which country in the Middle East has:- 90,000 Palestinian students been deprived from attending school? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country that uprooted over 112,000 olive trees in Palestinian land? Answer isISRAEL







Which state that hit 165 ambulances, killed 4 ambulance drivers and seriously injured 122? Answer is ISRAEL





Which country that killed 1251 and injured 18,507 people by the security forces and settlers ? Answer is ISRAEL







Which country that receives over $5 Billion aid each year from the U.S, more than the whole of Africa? Answer is ISRAEL
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There is no justice in the world

[Walter]

Stick your IQ test in your ass.

I dont need to test my IQ, I know I'm smart enougf

[obelix]

Just another loser whinging about Israel. The Israelis have a right to be where they are. It was "ISRAEL" 5000 years ago not Palestine. On the other hand, Jordan has stolen most of the land the Palestinians should have. No Arab, or fellow traveller, ever whines about that.

[Lib]

Interesting Rar, but I'd like to know where you got that information from.
Obelix, 5000 years ago very few countries were what they are today, neither by name nor by culture. A pity? Sometimes, and sometimes not.