Some WAR's Facts You'll Never Get To Know!!!
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ON CNN or Straits Times.
1. What percentage of the world's population does the U.S. have?..........6%
2. What percentage of the world's wealth does the U.S. have? ............ 50%>25%
3. Which country has the largest oil reserves? ........... Saudi Arabia
4. Which country has the second largest oil reserves? ........... Iraq
5. How much is spent on military budgets a year worldwide? ......... $900+ billion -
6. How much of this is spent by the U.S.? ...................... 50%
7. What percent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of life to everyone in the world, according to UN? .....10% (That's about $40 billion, the amount of funding initially requested to fund the retaliatory attack on Afghanistan).
8. How many people have died in wars since World War II ? ............86 million
9. How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons? ............... Since the early 1980's.
10. Did Iraq develop these chemical and biological weapons on its own?...... No The materials and technology were supplied by the US government, along with Britain and private corporations. -
11. Did the US government condemn the Iraqi use of gas warfare against Iran? ....... No
12. How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988? ........ 5,000
13. How many western countries condemned this action at the time?
............0
14. How many gallons of Agent Orange did America use in Vietnam?...........17 million.
15. Are there any proven links between Iraq and September 11th terrorist attack? ............ No -
16. What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War?........... 35,000
17. How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the western forces during the Gulf War? ...... 126 casualties in Op Desert Storm.
18. How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by U.S. tanks with ploughs mounted on the front? ........ 6,000
19. How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War ?......... 40 tons
20. What according to the UN was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994? ..........700% -
21. How much of Iraq's military capacity did America claim it had destroyed in 1991? ...............80%
22. Is there any proof that Iraq plans to use its weapons for anything other than deterrence and self defense? ...... No
23. Does Iraq present more of a threat to world peace now than 10 years ago? ................. No
24. How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of an attack on Iraq in 2003? ........ 10,000
25. What percentage of these will be children? ..........Over 50% -
26. How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq?...........11 years
27. Was the U.S and the UK at war with Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? ...... No
28. How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? ..... 20 million
29. How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on Iraq's imports and exports? ...12 years
30. What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)? ...........................38 -
31. What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000 births)? .......131 (that's an increase of 345%)
32. How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a result of UN sanctions? ......... 1.5 million
33. How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions since 1997? ............. 750,000
34. Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq? ................No
35. How many inspections were there in November and December 1998? ........300 -
36. How many of these inspections had problems? ........5
37. Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba'ath Party HQ?.............. Yes
38. Who said that by December 1998, Iraq had in fact, been disarmed to a level unprecedented in modern history?
........ Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief.
39. 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? ..........90%
40. Did Iraq allow the weapons inspectors back in? .......Yes -
41. How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992? ............Over 65
42. How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990? .........30+
43. How much does the U.S. fund Israel a year? ....................$5
billion
44. How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons? ...............8
45. How many nuclear warheads does Iraq have? ................0 -
46. How many nuclear warheads does US have? ................over 10,000
47. Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons? .............the US
48. How many nuclear warheads does Israel have? ...............Over 400
49. Has Israel ever allowed UN weapons inspections? ...............No
50. What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled by
Israeli settlements? ...........42% -
51. Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land? ...................Yes
(Palestinia is not a country before recent time.Yes against Syria, Lebanon & Jordan.)
53. Who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"? .......Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
52. Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.A? -
Strangely, IRAQ is more dangerous!
There is such a thing as a collective conscience in the US called THE PEOPLE.
They can throw out their lea-duh if they are not happy with him and if he moves against the citizenry and surpress them like Saddam does to his, they have the constitutional right to bear arms and take him down.
If you tried anything like that in Iraq, you're dead.Originally posted by SeaWhale:51. Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land? ...................Yes
(Palestinia is not a country before recent time.Yes against Syria, Lebanon & Jordan.)
53. Who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"? .......Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
52. Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.A? -
You said, "Palestinia is not a country before recent time.Originally posted by SeaWhale:51. Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land? ...................Yes
(Palestinia is not a country before recent time.Yes against Syria, Lebanon & Jordan.)
Yes against Syria, Lebanon & Jordan."
Palestine WAS a country before Jewish immigrants flocked to the promised land. The land the British promised them during WWI in return for cooperation. Much of the West Bank is indeed Jordanian territory that Israel has occupied after the 7 day war.
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Wow, i only know some of the first few facts that you have mentioned. It's on the newspaper, but the rest were nowhere to be found.. nice one!
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Originally posted by SeaWhale:
[b]ON CNN or Straits Times.
3. Which country has the largest oil reserves? ........... Saudi Arabia
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3. Which country has the largest oil reserves?...Saudi Arabia
Technically, it is Canada. Canada has almost 1.7 TRILLION, yes trillion and not measly billion bbl of bitumen. Approx, 400 billion bbls can be recovered with today's technology. How much does Saudi Arabia has? 330 billions bbls???
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There never was a Palestine.
It is there in the map just like the Sahara is in the map.
It's a region, not a country.
Even the PLO head honchos have admitted to there never being a Palestine before.Originally posted by Java Banana:You said, "Palestinia is not a country before recent time.
Yes against Syria, Lebanon & Jordan."
Palestine WAS a country before Jewish immigrants flocked to the promised land. The land the British promised them during WWI in return for cooperation. Much of the West Bank is indeed Jordanian territory that Israel has occupied after the 7 day war. -
Let's not forget :Originally posted by the Bear:Strangely, IRAQ is more dangerous!
In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied it for several months, plundering it of its wealth and committing atrocities against its people. (If you insist this is Western propaganda, please fly to Kuwait and ask the Kuwaitis, who are also Muslims). With the backing of the UN, US led a coalition and defeated Iraq in Kuwait. In its retreat, the Iraqi army set on fire several oil fields in Kuwait.
Following the liberation of Kuwait, Iraq was required by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to disarm itself of all weapons of mass destruction and long range missiles, and allow UN weapons inspectors to verify the disarmament. However, Iraq played hide and seek with the inspectors and even expelled them at one stage. For not complying with UNSC, United Nations imposed economic sanctions against Iraq. In Sep last year, USA asked for UN resoluation 1411 requiring Iraq to disarm and co-oporate with the inspectors fully or face serious consequences. Today, 12 years after Iraq was ordered to disarm by UN, the Chief Inspector still cannot declare that Iraq has totally disarmed itself of WMD.
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Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. There was a diplomatic fallout between the Iraqi regime and Washington in 1988. I had read about this quite sometime ago, and have a somewhat fuzzy recollection. But from the little I could recall, it was something about Washington ignoring Iraq requests for cooperation in technological advancements and humanitarian aid. They(Iraq) believed that it was not paid it's dues for doing the dirty work in the IRAN-IRAQ war, since they were the main tool the US used in fighting the Iranians. It is a fact that the American's were the ones who armed Saddam with Chemical weapons to use in the IRAN-IRAQ war.Originally posted by SeaWhale:Let's not forget :
In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied it for several months, plundering it of its wealth and committing atrocities against its people. (If you insist this is Western propaganda, please fly to Kuwait and ask the Kuwaitis, who are also Muslims). With the backing of the UN, US led a coalition and defeated Iraq in Kuwait. In its retreat, the Iraqi army set on fire several oil fields in Kuwait.
Following the liberation of Kuwait, Iraq was required by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to disarm itself of all weapons of mass destruction and long range missiles, and allow UN weapons inspectors to verify the disarmament. However, Iraq played hide and seek with the inspectors and even expelled them at one stage. For not complying with UNSC, United Nations imposed economic sanctions against Iraq. In Sep last year, USA asked for UN resoluation 1411 requiring Iraq to disarm and co-oporate with the inspectors fully or face serious consequences. Today, 12 years after Iraq was ordered to disarm by UN, the Chief Inspector still cannot declare that Iraq has totally disarmed itself of WMD.
Now I am mentioning this because on the 1st Day of the War, an Iraqi minister was giving a press conference and it was showed LIVE on CNN. He was rambling about how the US forces will be defeated and then he stopped to explain to a foreign journalist why Washington is taking such a stance against Iraq. This were his exact words, "Let me tell you about 1988. I'm not talking about 1998 but 1988. Washington....." CNN, paused the coverage abruptly, and the CNN anchor came on with a smaller caption of the press conference in the background with the speech muted. A full 30 seconds later, they resumed the broadcast of the press conference.
Looking at the current military capabilities of Iraq, do you think this regime is even capable of another invasion on Kuwait. Their soldiers are carrying AK-47's for goodness sake. Their missile defense systems are so in effective. The US is the one who possess WMD.
WMD are not pencils or erasers the Iraqis can hide under the desert. After 10 over years of inspections, they have yet to find any except chemical agents. It's true that Iraq had used chemical agents to kill Kurdish guerillas in the North. But it's all western propaganda on they killing women and children. They were not targeted but were just collaterals.
Use of chemical weapons. Why this uproar? What difference does it make to die from a bullet wound or one from nerve agents? It's still the same bloody outcome. hell awaits you. -
actually the answer is yes....the gulf war ended with an armstice not a surrender.Much like the 2 Korea's are officially at war as the korean war ended in an armstice also.Meaning no official declration of war is need in the UN for them to fight each other,only the breaking of the terms of armsticeOriginally posted by SeaWhale:26. How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq?...........11 years
27. Was the U.S and the UK at war with Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? ...... No