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>>>I'm still not convinced that Iraqi Air Force General George Sada and Ali Ibrahim al-Tikriti are both lying about the weapons going to Syria...if they are there, that was a very smart move. It's obvious why the U.S. wouldn't do anything about it, if true.
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>>If they did, it was a very STUPID move. Most of the Arab world hated Saddam Hussien. Moving weapons from Iraq to some other country is simply handing them presents. Iraq would never have gotten them back.
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>That is what they did with some of the few intact pieces of their air force during the first gulf war - to Iran of all places.

Yup. I was there. Iraq never saw them again. Didn't really matter though as their equipment was vastly inferior to US equipment.