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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (480586)	5/13/2009 9:55:26 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1574854

"Yet somehow they were a superpower in waiting?" I was trying to be gentle with less_. He gets so hysterical when cornered... But, yeah. That was a pretty stupid idea. "Making up hypothetical threats to legitimate real wars is for people traveling the moral low road." It is what they do. Frankly, they don't have a lot of options.

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (480586)	5/13/2009 10:11:28 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

fore the first Gulf War, before the sanctions, at full force and with our help, Iraq couldn't even defeat Iran. Yet somehow they were a superpower in waiting? Prior to the Gulf War, they had the fourth largest standing army in the world. We were warned, prior to the beginning of the Gulf War, that this would not be a cake walk. That if a ground assault were necessary, we could see thousands or tens of thousands of dead Americans. And there were extremely credible military analysts saying this. The reality is that had Saddam not been the guy trying to run the war it could have been a more substantial challenge. Certainly, military analysts were very concerned about it.