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Originally posted by theking
They had the equipment and military power because the Russians supplied the majority of the their military hardware...but the French and Germans also supplied them. The US did not supply any military hardware to Iraq ever...other than a half dozen rotorary wing aircraft (not gun ships) and indirectly supplied some cluster bombs during the Iraq/Iran conflict.
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The US and the UK supplied Iraq with plenty of chemicals to gass a few thousand Kurds after which Rumsfeld flew all the way to Iraq to give Saddam a friendly handshake: "Well done, Saddam. Who cares about civilians anyway?"