I served two tours in Iraq, OIF 1 and OIF III. My first tour was a combat unit, I was a 19 Kilo (M1A1 Crewman). My second tour was working as a clerk in Brigade S4 in the Tactical Operations Center that covered all of Northern Baghdad. I had quite the history lesson my second tour as I worked right next to Brigade S2 (intelligence).
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The Iraq military was practically non-existent and mostly decimated during the first Gulf war. They were no threat to anyone. There country was pretty much in ruins due to a decade of sanctions.
By attacking them, all we did was pour gas on the fire. We fanned the flames of hatred for the U.S. even more in the Arab world.
I'm curious, do you even know the real reason why Iraq invaded Kuwait? Why the U.S. then attacked Iraq? It might do you some good to research that. You will find that Iraq was once a U.S. ally. Iraq pleaded with the U.N. numerous documented times over Kuwait stealing oil. The U.S. turned their backs on Iraq because Kuwait was the more significant strategic ally.
Prior to Iraq invading Kuwait for stealing their oil, Saddam had proposed dropping the dollar in favor of the Euro to trade its oil.
You should really read up on what really happened, not the propaganda spew you watch on for profit corporate media.
We knew in 2005 about North Korea...we knew in 2002 about Iran...we did more than "twiddle our thumbs", we invaded/occupied a country that did NOTHING to the US and posed no threat to the US/mid-East.
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