gambit
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So was Iraq weak BEFORE the first war against US -- Desert Storm?Iraq was strong?
mr arm chair warrior plz zip it
After the first Persian gulf war Iraq...
Here is what got the Iranian government worried...That a US-led coalition of military powers attacked an IMMEDIATE neighbor. Iran fought Iraq in a ten-yr war that ended in a stalemate. A war that pitted the Arab world against Iran. Then much later, pretty much that same world turned on Iraq when Saddam Hussein became greedy. The fact that it happened right next door tells the Iranian military leadership that between Iraq and Iran, Iraq was more troublesome and the rapid defeat of Iraq tells the Iranian military leadership that Iran's military defeat is a matter of US convenience, not capability.
So YOU 'zip it'.