When you invade someone else’s turf you do not know what to expect. I do recall one of the generals saying that Iraq had better freeways than the United States. Some of those freeways were used to help get our troops to Baghdad.


>>>Seems like Iraq had the third biggest Army in the world around 1990?
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>>They might have had that in numbers, but in equipment, they were impotent. Again, not a threat to
>>the United States.
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>Only if you discount what they were proven to be working on up until the 1st Gulf War. If Saddam had decided to gas-tip some of his rockets - which they were capable of doing - you'd be singing a different tune.
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>It's easy to dismiss them now that their military forces have been smashed to bits. But until we invaded, most military analysts (rightly or wrongly) considered Iraq to be a pretty potent foe.