Opinion Test your knowledge By Douglas Lummis	フレームで見る  英文をプリントする  脚注をプリントする
イラク戦争に関する基礎テスト イラク戦争に関する知識をテストしてみてください。いくつの質問に答えられるでしょうか？

How many of these questions can you answer correctly?

1) In all of recorded history, how many times has Iraq invaded, attempted to invade, or threatened to invade the United States?

2) Since its defeat in the Gulf War, how many countries has Iraq invaded, attempted to invade, or threatened to invade?

3) How many Iraqis were among the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States?

4) What was the major piece of evidence that U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented to the U.N. Security Council as proof of a link between Iraq and the al-Qaeda?

5) What was wrong with Powell's statement that the al-Qaeda and Iraq have been cooperating "for decades"?

6) What was wrong with the documentary evidence Powell presented to prove the Iraqi government had tried to purchase uranium in Nigeria?

7) What weapons of mass destruction did the U.N. inspectors find during their investigations in Iraq?

8) What is the correct term for "pre-emptive attack" in international law?

9) When Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese leaders were tried, convicted and sentenced to death by hanging after World War II, what was the charge?

10) When U.S. President George W. Bush refused to sign the treaty establishing a permanent International Criminal Court under the United Nations and said the United States would not cooperate with such a court, what was the reason given?

Here are the answers:

1) Zero. 2) None. 3) None. In a recent poll, only 17 percent of Americans questioned were able to answer this question correctly. More than 40 percent said they believed the Sept. 11 attacks were personally planned by Saddam Hussein, something even the U.S. government has never claimed. 4) A man named Abu Massad al-Zakawi, who is not a member of the al-Qaeda but is suspected of cooperating with them when he spent several months in a hospital in Baghdad. He was sick.

5) The al-Qaeda was founded around 1988. During most of the 1980s, Osama Bin Laden was working under the American CIA, fighting to drive the U.S.S.R. out of Afghanistan.

6) The documents turned out to be forged. 7) None. 8) Aggression

9) Aggression. 10) The Bush administration was concerned that, if such a court were established, it might be used to try U.S. military personnel for war crimes.

Interpreting your score:

If you scored less than 60 percent, and have been supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq, your support is based on misinformation, and you should think the whole matter through again. If you scored between 60 and 80 percent, and have been supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then you should look carefully at the questions you missed, ask yourself why you did not know the right answers, and rethink your conclusion. If you scored 80 percent or more, and have still been supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then you qualify as a fundamentalist: one whose conclusions never change, no matter what the facts are.

Shukan ST: April 11, 2003

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