NOTE: This is a variation of a question-and-answer piece
on the relationship between Iraq, the U.S., Europe, and military
campaigns circulating through cyberspace. I set it up as an
easier-to-read numerical column and added a few items of my
own. The numbers speak for themselves.
| Percentage
of the world's population living in the U.S.: |
6 |
| Percentage
of the world’s energy resources used in the U.S.: |
30 |
| Rank
of Iraq among countries in the world for the largest oil
reserves: |
2 |
| Military
spending, worldwide: |
$900
billion |
| Percentage
of worldwide military spending by U.S.: |
50 |
| Percentage
of worldwide military spending by Iraq: |
0.0015 |
| Percentage
of Iraq's military capacity U.S. claimed it destroyed
in 1991 Persian Gulf War: |
80 |
| Percentage
of Iraq's post-1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass
destruction the UN claimed to have discovered and dismantled
by 1998: |
90 |
| Number
of Americans who have died in wars since World War II:
|
92,212 |
| Number
of people living outside U.S. who have died in wars since
World War II: |
25
million |
| Years
that Iraq has had chemical and biological weapons: |
20 |
| Number
of U.S. and European corporations that supplied Iraq with
materials and knowledge to make chemical and biological
weapons since the early 1980s: |
150 |
| Number
of Western nations that condemned Saddam Hussein in 1988
immediately after he used gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja
in 1988 to kill an estimated 5,000 people: |
0 |
| Number
of pounds of Agent Orange and other herbicides U.S. dropped
in the Vietnam War: |
100
million |
| Value
of worldwide weapons trade: |
$800
billion |
| Percentage
of weapons dealt by U.S. companies worldwide: |
50 |
| Estimated
number of Iraqi civilian deaths in the 1991 Persian Gulf
War: |
35,000 |
| Estimated
number of retreating Iraqi soldiers killed by U.S. forces
in 1991 War: |
6,000 |
| Estimated
number of Iraqi civilian deaths Pentagon predicted in
the 2003 war: |
10,000 |
| Estimated
number of Iraqi civilian casualties in the 2003 war so
far: |
800 |
| Percentage
of Iraqi civilian deaths that are children: |
50 |
| Tons
of depleted uranium left in Iraq and Kuwait after the
1991 Gulf War: |
40 |
| Percentage
increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994: |
700 |
| Number
of years the U.S. has engaged in air strikes on Iraq: |
11 |
| Pounds
of explosives U.S.-led coalition dropped on Iraq in 1991
Persian Gulf War: |
177
million |
| Pounds
of explosives U.S.-British pilots dropped on Iraq between
December 1998 and September 1999: |
20
million |
| Estimated
pounds of explosives U.S.-British pilots have dropped
on Iraq since the start of Operation Iraqi Invasion in
March 2003: |
200
million |
| Years
Iraq has lived under economic sanctions imposed by the
UN: |
12 |
| Iraqi
child death rate in 1989 [per 1,000 births]: |
30 |
| Iraqi
child death rate in 1999 [per 1,000 births]: |
131 |
| Number
of Iraqis estimated to have died through 1999 due to UN
sanctions: |
1.5
million |
| Percentage
of them children: |
50 |
| Number
of UN inspections conducted in Iraq in November-December
1998: |
300 |
| Number
of those inspections with problems: |
5 |
| Number
of UN weapons inspections conducted in Iraq in 2003: |
500 |
| Number
of UN resolutions Israel violated through 1992: |
Over
65 |
| Number
of UN resolutions on Israel that U.S. vetoed between 1972
and 1990: |
Over
30 |
| Number
of UN weapons inspections Israel has ever allowed: |
0 |
| Number
of nuclear warheads U.S. has: |
Over
10,000 |
| Number
of nuclear warheads Israel has: |
Over
400 |
| Number
of nuclear warheads Iraq has: |
0 |
| Number
of countries known to have nuclear weapons: |
8 |
| Number
of countries that have used nuclear weapons on another
country: |
1 |
