If you think you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq, take the war on Iraq IQ Quiz.

(Each Question is worth hundreds of lives.)

1. What percentage of the world's population does the U.S. have?

A: 7%

B: 6%

C: 5%

D: There are people outside the U.S.?

2. What percentage of the world's wealth does the U.S. have?
A: 20%

B: 30%

C: 40%

D: 50%

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

B: Iraq

C: Alaska

D: Jordan

4. Which country has the second largest oil reserves?
A: United States

B: Venezuela

C: Iraq

D: The Pacific Ocean

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

B: 800+ billion

C: 700+ billion

D: 35 cents and a pack of bubblegum

6. How much of this is spent by the U.S.?
A: None, we are a peaceful nation

B: 10%

C: 30%

D: 50%

7. What percent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of
life to everyone in the world, according the UN?

A: Ha! We can’t feed and house EVERYONE in the world. I mean, we are rich, but not that rich!

B: 500%

C: 100%

D: 10%

8. How many people have died in wars since World War II?
A: 1 million

B: 37 million

C: 86 million

D: None, we haven’t been at war since then.

9. How many of those people died because of direct U.S. intervention

A: 35,000

B: 500,000

C: 8 million

D: 0. The U.S. doesn’t kill people. Only bad guys kill people.

10. How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish
town of Halabja in 1988?
A: 500,000

B: 50,000

C: 5,000

D: 500

11. How many western countries condemned this action at the time?
A:10

B: 5

C: 1

D: 0

12. How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons?
A: Since January 2003

B: Since 2000

C: Since the early 1990’s

D: Since the early 1980’s

13. Who supplied the materials and technology that allowed Iraq to develop chemical & biological weapons?
A: Iran and Afghanistan

B: Saudi Arabia and Russia

C: North Korea and China

D: The United States and Britain

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

B: Yes

C: Who cares? We don’t like either one of them anyway.

15. How many gallons of agent Orange did America use in Vietnam?
A: 15

B: 2000

C: 200000

D: 17million.

16. Are there any proven links between Iraq and September 11th
terrorist attack?
A: No

B: Yes

C: It doesn’t matter. Saddam Hussein doesn’t like us so he is a terrorist.

17. What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War?
A: 45

B: 273

C: 5,000

D: 35,000

18. How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the western
forces during the Gulf War ?
A: 5,000

B: 2,768
C: 3

D: 0

19. How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by U.S. tanks
with ploughs mounted on the front?
A: 0

B: 2

C: 346

D: 6,000

20. How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq and Kuwait
after the Gulf War?
A: 3.5

B: 10

C: 40 tons
D: What is depleted uranium? And who left it in Iraq?

21. What, according to the UN, was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq
between 1991 and 1994?
A: 10%

B: 20%

C: 30%

D: 700%

22. How much of Iraq's military capacity did America claim it had
destroyed in 1991?
A: 20%

B: 40%

C: 60%

D: 80%

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

B: Yes

C: proof? Who needs proof? Guilty until proven innocent is my motto.

24. Does Iraq present more of a threat to world peace now than 10 years
ago?
A: No

B: Yes

C: World Peace is only for beauty pageants.

25. How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of
an attack on Iraq in 2002/3?

A: 1,000

B: 5,000
C: 10,000

D: 0. If they are within 5 miles of a military installation, they are military personnel.

26. What percentage of these will be children?
A: Over 50%

B: Over 25%

C: Over 10%

D: Under 10%

27. How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq?
A: 2 years

B: 4 years

C: 7 years

D: 11years

28. Were the U.S and the UK at war with Iraq between December 1998 and
September 1999?
A: No

B: Yes

C: Declarations of war aren’t really necessary when dealing with third world countries

29. How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December
1998 and September 1999?
A: 0, we don’t drop bombs on people unless we are at war with them.

B: 2,000

C: 10,000

D: 20 million

30. How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing
strict sanctions on Iraq's imports and exports?
A: < 1 year

B: 2 years

C: 5 years

D: 12 years

31. What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)?
A: 934

B: 337

C: 53

D: 38

32. What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000
births)?
A: 512

B: 337

C: 131

D: 52

33. How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a
result of UN sanctions?
A: 254

B: 10,000

C: 100,000

D: 1,500,000

34. How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions
since 1997?
A: 3

B: 547

C: 1,000

D: 750,000

35. Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq?
A: No
B: Yes

36. How many inspections were there in November and December 1998?
A: 300
B: 200

C: 100

D: 50

37. How many of these inspections had problems?
A:  5
B: 20

C: 50

D: 150

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

B: No

C: There is a Bath party in Iraq? Why wasn’t I invited?

39. Who said that by December 1998, "Iraq had in fact, been disarmed to
a level unprecedented in modern history."
A: Bill Clinton

B: Gandhi

C: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief.

D: Saddam Hussein

40. 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%

B: 50%

C: 25%

D: 10%

41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992?
A: 0. The good guys don’t violate UN resolutions

B: 5

C: 10

D: Over 65

42. How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and
1990?
A: 0. Israel hasn’t had any resolutions brought up against it.
B: 2

C: 10

D: 30+

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

B: 4

C: 2

D: 1

44. How many nuclear warheads does Iraq have?
A: 0

B: 2

C: 8

D: 143

45. How many nuclear warheads does the US have?
A: 10

B: 100

C: 1,000

D: over 10,000

46. Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons?
A: Germany

B: France

C: Russia

D: United States of America

47. How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
A: 2

B: 15

C: 250

D: Over 400

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

B: George W. Bush

C: Colin Powell

D: Donald Rumsfeld

49. What percent of our Taxes go to the Military Industrial Complex?

A: 6%

B: 17%

C: 32%

D: 46%

50. Which Middle-Eastern nation has 1) tried to dominate the Middle East, 2) invaded and brutally occupied a small neighbor for an extended period of time, and 3) struck other nations without warning?

A: Afghanistan

B: Israel

C: North Korea

D: Iraq

51. Who said, “My government is the world’s leading purveyor of violence.”

A: Saddam Hussein’s son

B: A treasonous coward

C: A poor excuse for an American

D: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.