>The world. Nah. France was easy. And so were the small countries. Germany never came close to Britian, and never could figure out how to live in Russia during the winters. Saddam, if the Israelis hadn't bombed the nuclear plant, could easily do more damage now than Hitler ever thought of in his wildest dreams. Back in 91 Saddam also had amassed enough chemical and biological weapons to kill everyone in the world several times over.
Hitler was defeated more by the harsh Russian weather than any other factor... had he defeated the USSR, or had the U.S. not entered the war when we did who knows what would've happened?
As far as Saddam goes, you may be right about Saddam's strength in '91, but he's more of a paper tiger at this point, I'd say.
>If it takes 250,000 troops on the border and several thousand inspectors to control him, how much worse can it get. Not to mention the 6000 children dying every month from those controls. 1.5 million people have died according to Saddams own accounts,there are between 2 mil. and 4 mil refugees, and you say that isn't too bad. What pray tell, is your definition of bad. Surely this short war, can't be any worse than leaving Saddam in power.
I don't buy these numbers at all- they're sheer Arab propaganda... Iraq has managed to circumvent the sanctions in many ways, including selling oil through the Palestinian Authority.
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