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To: abuelita who wrote (14990)	3/19/2003 3:12:46 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

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. 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: 11years 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 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 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: ? 53. Q: Who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"? A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Oregon Center for Public Policy PO Box 7, Silverton, OR 97381 (503) 873-1201 Phone (503) 873-1947 OCPP Fax

To: abuelita who wrote (14990)	3/19/2003 3:29:14 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Liberal MPs Flay 'Arrogant' President by Jeff Sallot Published on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 by the Globe & Mail/Canada commondreams.org OTTAWA — Many angry Liberal backbenchers are making it personal, denouncing U.S. President George W. Bush with words such as petulant, arrogant, jingoistic and even hypocritical. He's being characterized as a leader who dangerously mixes religion and politics and who seems to have something to prove. The dam broke and a flood of anti-Bush sentiment flowed from the privacy of the Liberal government caucus room to the floor of the Commons after Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's announcement that Canada will not support a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Even as Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham was trying to patch over policy differences with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in a phone call late Monday night, backbenchers were lining up to lambaste Mr. Bush in an emergency Iraq crisis debate in the House. "We are told that President Bush is a deeply religious man, and as we know, it is indeed a dangerous and volatile cocktail when religion and politics are mixed," Toronto-area MP Karen Kraft Sloan said. "We must ask ourselves why a deeply religious man refuses to listen to the pleas from the world's religious leaders and the prayers of millions of protesters across the planet, including the prayers coming from the lips of American citizens," Ms. Sloan said. Mr. Chrétien's support for United Nations arms inspections, Ms. Sloan said, is a "counterpoint to the jingoistic, petulant impatience displayed by Mr. Bush." Quebec Liberal Yvon Charbonneau said Mr. Bush has taken it upon himself to "speak on behalf of the whole world. . . . How arrogant of him." Mr. Charbonneau said that "President Bush is playing a very dangerous game by riding roughshod over the UN" and is acting in a "very dangerous and irresponsible manner." Former cabinet minister Hedy Fry said she had watched Mr. Bush on TV deliver his 48-hour ultimatum to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and became convinced that the President was never committed to finding a diplomatic solution. "He had determined all along that we would go to war." The back-bench doves were careful to train their sights on Mr. Bush and his administration to avoid the kind of collateral damage that resulted from Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish's carpet-bomb attack on "American bastards" last month. Deputy Prime Minister John Manley said the personal attacks on Mr. Bush by Liberal MPs are counterproductive to the goal of maintaining a workable bilateral relationship. "They're public figures and they have the right to opinions, but it's useful if they express them on the basis of principle and belief rather than to cast aspersions, particularly of a personal nature," he said. "And it would be important to remain rather careful about those things." But the depth of the anti-Bush sentiment raises questions about the type of reception the President will receive in May when he is scheduled to visit Ottawa and address Parliament. "Our neighbors and friends are being led into a war by a leader who believes he has something to prove, to whom I am not certain," said MP Janko Peric from Cambridge, Ont. Mr. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his closest ally in the Iraq crisis, are "the leaders of those two great democracies in the world (who) have decided to say to hell with the United Nations and international diplomacy," Mr. Peric continued. Mr. Peric said the U.S. and British leaders have decided "they are above the law (and) God forbid that anyone should disagree with them." Americans "are our friends" and Mr. Bush will have to "answer to his own citizens," Liberal Brent St. Denis said in a speech warning that the President's decision may have damaged the UN. The administration is guilty of "hypocrisy" because it pushes the United Nations to support Iraqi disarmament but ignores other UN resolutions dealing with the rights of Palestinians, Scarborough Liberal MP John Cannis said. The U.S. government has "failed miserably" to pay its bills to the UN and is now leading a "gang of war" that includes Britain, Spain and Portugal, Mr. Cannis said. "We know that this war has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with vested interest, interest in oil for example," Mr. Cannis said. Kitchener MP Karen Redman said the U.S.-led coalition will be violating international law if it attacks Iraq without UN approval. The ends do not justify the means and "we cannot compromise the integrity or the credibility of the United Nations," Ms. Redman added. Former defense minister Art Eggleton said Mr. Bush's mistaken agenda is not disarmament of Iraq but rather toppling Saddam Hussein from power. But Mr. Eggleton also said Canadians "must recognize that we are the closest of friends" with Americans, neighbors who have "gone through a very traumatic experience" with the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. © 2003 Bell Globemedia Interactive Inc.