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**evarekataVame** · 03-04-2010, 10:50 PM

everyone seems to have forgotten that 10+ years of sanction have bleed Iraq dry prior to 2003's invasion. no such thing for Iran. Europeans, China, Russia, happily conduct business and arms trade with them and this has not been interrupted.

Iraq also lost the majority of its ground vehicle, equipments and aircraft during the first Gulf war. There had been no resupply since. And just to correct you: the pre-invasion number of personell of Iraq is roughly half of those active in Iran at the moment. If you include the paramilitary, then it's less than 1/10th of Iran. However mighty they were in the 80s when it was supported by Reagan, it could not have been the world's 5th largest army (which is Russia, at 1.04 million) prior to the 2003 invasion.

03-04-2010, 10:50 PM	#12
evarekataVame Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 590 Senior Member	everyone seems to have forgotten that 10+ years of sanction have bleed Iraq dry prior to 2003's invasion. no such thing for Iran. Europeans, China, Russia, happily conduct business and arms trade with them and this has not been interrupted. Iraq also lost the majority of its ground vehicle, equipments and aircraft during the first Gulf war. There had been no resupply since. And just to correct you: the pre-invasion number of personell of Iraq is roughly half of those active in Iran at the moment. If you include the paramilitary, then it's less than 1/10th of Iran. However mighty they were in the 80s when it was supported by Reagan, it could not have been the world's 5th largest army (which is Russia, at 1.04 million) prior to the 2003 invasion.
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