What's your Iraq IQ? take this knowledge quiz:

[The Count]

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2007/03/iraq_quiz.html

[Kindigger]

1. I belong

on the National Security Council, where do I sign? :P

[maddezmom]

3. me too, thanks to DU

:)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Aced it

But a large chunk of the credit goes to DU.

[MethuenProgressive]

4. I got 8, 9, 11, & 15 wrong.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. 15 was hard for me

I was stuck between answer A or B. I guessed and got lucky.

[sasha031]

6. thanks

I'm qualified to be on the Security Council.

# 3 is wrong , it's over a million...

[stillcool]

12. I thought so too...

I also got wrong which group was to blame for American soldiers deaths, and the fence in Saudi Arabia.

[ewagner]

7. 8,9, &11 Wrong...

I'm soooo embarrassed...........:blush:

[Der Blaue Engel]

8. I only got 10 right

I feel like I've flunked DU.

[Kerry fan]

9. OK, Dumb question.

Where are the answers to score yourself?

[MethuenProgressive]

10. Answer to your question:

At the bottom, but you need to keep score yourself (honor system!

[Kerry fan]

13. I see the Scoring key:

But, I don't see the answers to the questions. I wrote all my answers on paper. Do I need some special add on to see the answers?

[seaglass]

15. you need to click on the answer and a pop-up will tell you

if you're right or wrong.

[Kerry fan]

16. Duh, THANKS!

I finally figured that out. Can't believe I got 5 wrong.

[Kerry fan]

14. And, BTW

"Support our Troops. Impeach your President."

He's NOT my president...LOL I have never called him preisdent yet. I will reserve that title for Al Gore and John Kerry.

[roamer65]

11. 13 out of 15.

But no thanks on a NSC job. I don't work with known criminals.

[cyberpj]

17. BUT - Two things should be noted...

(1) The total cost of the war so far is 318.5 billion. Experts predict that veterans' long-term medical care could cost 127 billion. 44% of vets from the 1991 Gulf War filed for disability benefits. A similar number of the current 1.4 million current soldiers are expected to do so, pushing up long-term costs.
Most experts believe the long-term costs of this war will not be comparable to the Gulf War because of the length of the war, the number of repeated rotations, a huge increase in PTSD and yet to be revealed costs of depleted uranium effects. I agree.


(2) "The White House has requested $1.3 billion to build a new 104-acre embassy in Baghdad."
The embassy is already built or near completion. The 1.3 billion was the initial request - actual completion costs are unknown.

Read more:
US "Embassy Iraq", the largest fortress in history, est. cost 1 billion
Posted by cyberpj in General Discussion: Politics
Fri May 19th 2006, 06:36 PM
Iraqis call it "George W.'s Palace".
It has it's own, separate, utilities AND secret detention facilities.
Anyone remember hearing this lie? ..."If Iraqis ask us to leave, we'll leave."

3 articles follow:

(1) In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy
From Daniel McGrory in Baghdad
May 03, 2006

THE question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?

Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call “George W’s palace” rising from the banks of the Tigris.

In the pavement cafés, people moan that the structure is bigger than anything Saddam Hussein built. They are not impressed by the architects’ claims that the diplomatic outpost will be visible from space and cover an area that is larger than the Vatican city and big enough to accommodate four Millennium Domes. They are more interested in knowing whether the US State Department paid for the prime real estate or simply took it.

cont'd...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article712424.ece


(2)The U.S. Embassy will be the De facto Capital of Iraq
by Stan Moore
Sunday April 30 2006)

snip...
The myth of democracy for Iraq is about as shallow and as subtle as this reinforced concrete building. Iraqi governance will for years be directed, controlled, manipulated, and protected by the United States of America and its military and corporate leadership. The assets of Iraq will be managed, siphoned, extracted, liquidated, and strangled from the U.S. embassy. Iraqis who oppose this program will become among the "disappeared" and will not be allowed to influence Iraqi governance or policies.

snip...
The U.S. embassy in Iraq is not being built for the Iraqi people's interests. It is being built to facilitate and manage long-term American control of Iraq. The U.S. embassy will be more like the Pentagon than like an administrative home of diplomatic activity. Iraq's fate rests with the fate of that embassy, and it is a foreboding, threatening, frightening monument to the stealing of an entire nation, its future, and its soul by a greedy, powerful, heartless, and merciless occupier.

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/29818


(3)U.S. Building Its Largest Embassy in Iraq
By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent
Friday, April 14, 2006

snip...
"The presence of a massive U.S. embassy — by far the largest in the world — co-located in the Green Zone with the Iraqi government is seen by Iraqis as an indication of who actually exercises power in their country," the International Crisis Group, a European-based research group, said in one of its periodic reports on Iraq.

snip...
"Embassy Baghdad" will dwarf new U.S. embassies elsewhere, projects that typically cover 10 acres. The embassy's 104 acres is six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York, and two-thirds the acreage of Washington's National Mall.

snip...
Original cost estimates ranged over $1 billion, but Congress appropriated only $592 million in the emergency Iraq budget adopted last year. Most has gone to a Kuwait builder, First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting, with the rest awarded to six contractors working on the project's "classified" portion — the actual embassy offices.

Higgins declined to identify those builders, citing security reasons, but said five were American companies.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/04/14/international/i105942D92.DTL

[bigwillq]

18. Well I am better than Judy Miller

but not good enough.

10 right