Global Politics

[bobcat]

Has anybody received this email? Subject is "Global Politics". If so what do you think about it. I have it copied below





1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on over
twenty different countries since 1945?
2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons?
3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in
Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt, thereby making it the
most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle East history?
4) Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described by the UN
Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism?
5) Which country rejected the order of the International Court of Justice
(ICJ) to terminate its "unlawful use of force" against Nicaragua in 1986,
and then vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on all states to
observe international law?
6) Which country was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission of providing
"direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide" against the Mayan
Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s?
7) Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile
(ABM)Treaty in December 2001?
8) Which country renounced the efforts to negotiate a verification process
for the Biological Weapons Convention and brought an international
conference on the matter to a halt in July 2001?
9) Which country prevented the United Nations from curbing the gun trade at
a small arms conference in July 2001?
10) Aside from Somalia, which is the only other country in the world to have
refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?
11) Which is the only Western country which allows the death penalty to be
applied to children?
12) Which is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997 Mine Ban
Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines?
13) Which is the only G7 country to have voted against the creation of the
International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998?
14) Which was the only other country to join with Israel in opposing a 1987
General Assembly resolution condemning international terrorism?
15) Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations yet
reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions?

Answer to all 15 questions: The United States of America.

... and Howard wonders why people protest against possible war with Iraq -
it is not about supporting Saddam (no one does, well except for the USA when
they backed him into power), but opposing through peaceful protest things
like the above acts carried out by the most self-interested country in the
world.

Is any of this true? I'm not one of those people that automatically believe emails like this, but I'm just curious if anyone can clear it up for me. And I always know that there's 2 sides to the story!

Plus I figure most of the members here are from the US, and should be aware of this type of stuff
Thanks