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To: KyrosL who wrote (101250)6/12/2003 10:01:41 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
The Iran-Iraq war was a much bigger conflict for Iraq than World War II was for the US.

I certainly wouldn't disagree. Percentage wise, more of their population was under arms than the US during WWII.

But after the gulf war, the Iraqis apparently possessed sufficient accountability on the chemical weapons stock to develop that document where they stated only 13,000 (not the 19,000 they told UNSCOM) weapons had been expended during the 7 chemical attacks they launched during the conflict.

Hawk