Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Mlsoft, Iraq was under sanctions for 12 years. Wouldn't that have made it difficult for Saddam to advance his weapons program? Yet Saddam was a bully and surely would never have admitted same...

Did you see Saddam's military equipment in media footage, his tanks and planes? It looked like old circa Vietnam stuff possibly purchased on eBay or at a old USSR rummage sale. How do you reconcile the lack of military equipment with the WMD capabilities Iraq was said to have? Saddam didn't seem to have much of a military either. He mounted no noticable defense in Iraq or even in Baghdad.