1. 1,000 Way way way off. Over 100 people have died in a single day during the war. You probably only get your news from American TV, radio, and newpapers. Over 1000 Americans soldiers have died in Iraq, but there are civilian and soldiers from Iraq and around the world who have been killed.
2. 10,000 Nope. Too low
3. 20,000 Too low.
4. 30,000 Too low.
5. More than 50,000 This is correct. A recent report by Johns Hopkins researchers and published in the medical journal, The Lancet, has found that it is likely that about 100,000 civilians have died. At the very least many tens of thousands of people have died.

1. .1% No.
2. .5% Try Again.
3. 1% Nope. Too low
4. 5% Too low.
5. 10% Correct. As far as we can tell, between 200,000-300,000 troops have been sent to Iraq. Around 30,000 have been killed, wounded, or become so ill that they've required evacuation to the U.S. or another country.

1. 1% We only wish this was correct.
2. 10% No.
3. 20% Nope.
4. 30% Correct. About 40,000 troops or nearly 1 in 3 lacked body armor. National Guardsmen in particular usually had Vietnam era flack jackets that provide almost no protection. Rather than wear them, troops often put them in the doors of their decades old unarmed vehicles.
5. 40% Incorrect.

1. U.S. Soldiers No. Although their number are huge, they are probably in 3rd or 2nd place.
2. UK Soldiers They only account for about 5% of the fatalities and unknown casualties.
3. Other Coalition Forces Nope. They have similar numbers to the British.
4. Iraqi Soldiers Unknown, but they are probably the second greatest group.
5. Iraqi Civilians Correct. Despite using "smart weapons" the "collateral damage" of innocent civilian deaths and injuries is by far the greatest group of the invasion.- Joint operations by U.S. and its partners are killing twice as many Iraqis, mostly civilian, as attacks by insurgents, according to statistics compiled by the Iraqi Health Ministry.

1. No, more died before.Incorrect.
2. Yes, more have died after.Yes. The majority of casualties in have occurred since then and the casualty rate has greatly increased recently. View Graph of Fataliy Rates

1. 100 No, Air Force One and its entourage of planes and vehicles costs over $100,000 an hour to fly.
2. 500 Still low. Other cabinet members came on separate flights.
3. 750 Incorrect. You've got to add in the cost of keeping the aircraft carrier at sea for an extra day.
4. 1000 Maybe. Body armor vests cost from around $650 to over $1000.
5. over 2000 Most likely. Estimates put the cost of the landing at $1 million to over $3 million.

1. 1 You've got to be kidding
2. 5 Way off.
3. 20 Nope. Too low
4. 50 Too low.
5. 100 Yup. Actually the number is over 100 ATTACKS PER DAY for a total of over 3,000 in August alone! This represents a severalfold increase over the rate of a year ago.

1. George W. Bush Yes, and there are more right answers. Less than six months after invading Iraq, he stated In front of Congress: "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the 11 September attacks.".
2. The 9/11 Commission Right. Their report shows no connection. It also shows that Al Qaeda and Iraq essentially no connection at all. They talked a few times, that's all. It seems that they had much less relation with Iraq than Halliburton in the 90s or Reagan and the first Bush administration. In fact, even after the Saddam was thought to have gassed the Kurds, a resolution urging sanctions against Iraq was passed by both Houses of Congress. It was vetoed by President Bush. The White House even granted Baghdad a further loan of a billion dollars and helped stop a UN resolution condemning Iraq.."
3. Donald Rumsfeld Yes. Just a month before the 2004 election, he stated: "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two [Iraq and Al Qaeda],"
4. Colin Powell Yes, again. "But I have seen nothing that makes a direct connection between Saddam Hussein and that awful regime, and what happened on 9/11."
5. Dick Cheney Nope. But Dick Cheney himself had business connections with at least 3 terrorist nations. As CEO of Halliburton, he did illegal (or barely skirted the law) business with Iraq, Iran, and Libya. Cheney and Halliburton are being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department, Securities and Exchange Commission and other countries regarding an alleged $180 million bribe Halliburton paid to Nigeria.

1. George W. Bush Nope. BUT he did publicly state the Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11.
2. Condoleeza Rice Right. She stated on CNN: "But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."
3. Donald Rumsfeld Nope.
4. Colin Powell Yesiree. While acting as Bush's Secretary of State, Powell is on the public record stating: "And frankly they [sanctions] have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies [sanctions] have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq..."

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• Show Answer Only 4 out of the 51 served and only 1 was in combat. That was John McCain. Cheney had 5 draft deferments and Ashcroft had 7 in order to teach business. Bush was in the guard and did not finish, got suspended from flying and resigned early when he wrote a letter (only recently revealed by the White House) saying, "Inadequate time to fullfill (sic) possible future commitments." because he couldn't serve a mere weekend a month. Compare this to the National Guard and Reservists that are being held well beyond their normal commitment because of the Iraq war.

1. Yes, it went down.Incorrect.
2. Yes, it went up.No.The rate has generally been higher, and most of the fatalities have occurred after his capture, but there does not appear to be a correlation.
3. No, it had no effect.Correct. It appears to have had no effect at all. Many of the months with the greated number of casualties have occurred after his capture, but the rate changes.

1. Yes, it went down.Incorrect.
2. Yes, it went up.Yes, the rate has gone up. Each and every month of the last six months has had a higher casualties than ANY month preceding them. In fact, compared to the peak of the invasion, the number of casualties in one month were over 3 times as much, while the average month is more than double. The fatality rate is up over 20% from the previous year and nearly 1,000 American soldiers were killed or wounded in August of 2004 alone.
3. No, there was no change.Wrong.

1. 42% Incorrect.
2. 54% No.
3. 63% Nope.
4. 70% Incorrect.
5. 75% Yup. ALL of the months with the greatest number of fatalities have been in the past year and the second greatest number of fatalities just happened.

• Show Answer Mercenaries and private guards. In fact, the U.S. government, rather than trust its own soldiers hired private soldiers to quard officials such as Paul Bremer. They are paid several times the normal miltary salary and account for a large part of the burden on the U.S. taxpayer.

• Show Answer

  Consider this, after 911 the world was with America. There were even massive demonstrations in Iran in support of America, and the French newspaper, Le Monde, said, "We are all Americans". In Afghanistan we had about 40 typical coalition partners, including the French and Germans. With the invasion of Iraq, the 30 countries in the "Coalition of the Willing" included many tiny countries, some of which did not even have armies. Now, nearly a third of that coalition have dropped out. Even Poland, which was mentioned as a partner by Bush in the debates, just announced that it was "misled" and will be leaving Iraq early.

  Presently, numerous polls show that the vast majority of the citizens in countries that have been our great allies now oppose the Bush administration. Over 80% of the populace in normally friendly countries including coalition partners, oppose our present actions. Even our close neighbors, Canada and Mexico, have strained relations with us and their citizens overwhelmingly oppose the Bush administration.

  Given the fact that Bush is severely alienating even our best friends, how then, can we win over our enemies? Please take a moment and visualize an actual end to the war on terror. If we only use hard power as Bush is doing, will it ever end? Will we not only create more enemies?

• Show Answer Zero. Zilch. Nada. Never. However, the fact is, before 9/11 he had plenty of time to meet and divide up Iraqi oil fields (See Cheney's map) with people from companies such as Enron. Why was he dividing up Iraq at this time or ever? Isn'that oil owned by the Iraqi people and not the U.S.? Why did it take a lawsuit by Judicial Watch to get any of the documents out and why is the Bush administration still hiding most of them?