Newsgroup: it.cultura.single
Titolo: Fwd da soc.culture.iraq

Here's some information you will not get on CNN, BBC AND THE INSUFFERABLE
FOX NEWS
1. Q: What percentage of the world's population does the US have?
A: Six per cent.
 2. Q: What percentage of the world's wealth does the US have?
A: 50 per cent.
 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: More than $900 billion.
 6. Q: How much of this is spent by the US?
A:50 per cent.
 7. Q: What per cent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of
life to everyone in the world, according the the UN?
A: 10 per cent (that's about $40 billion, the amount of funding initially
requested to fund the 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
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 per cent.
21. Q: How much of Iraq's military capacity did America claim it had
destroyed in 1991?
A: 80 per cent.
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 2003?
A: 500,000
25. Q: What percentage of these will be children?
A:Over 50 per cent.
26. Q: How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq?
A: 11 years
27. Q: Were the US 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 ago.
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 per cent)
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 per cent
 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: more than 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: Eight
 45. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Iraq have?
A: NIL
 46. Q: How many nuclear warheads does US have?
A: More than 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 per cent.
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 US?
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
-- 
°Ho imparato tanto tempo fa a non fare la lotta con i maiali. Ti sporchi
tutto e, soprattutto, ai maiali piace.°
- George Bernard Shaw 

 FOX NEWS
Ssssstt.... non si dicono queste cose, che sennò poi ti dicono che sei 
"antiamericana".
S.

 Tič.
A propo', nella lista dei 42 Paesi (che Bush dice) che appoggiano la 
guerra in Iraq figura anche l'Afghanistan, no dico, _l'Afghanistan_.
S.

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E quelli che devono fare, benedette creature?
Sono una colonia!
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 Sono una colonia!
Nemmeno!
Ci stanno ancora combattendo, contro gli afghani!
S.

 wrote:
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Solo contro quelli cattivi serè, non essere imprecisa pure tu, suvvia!
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