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Take the War-on- Iraq IQ Test A Selection of 25 short questions from those that Rabia has sent us. 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 essentialsof life to everyone in the world, according to the UN? A: 10% (that's about $40 billion, the amount of funding initially requested to fund the US 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 were 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: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? A: 20 million 23. 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 24. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992? A: Over 65 25. Q: Which is the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons? A: the US