Isn't It A Fact That Iraq Was A Defenseless 3rd-World Country?

Question

Regardless of what people thought before the invasion. Didn't it the facts turn out that Iraq:
Had no navy.
No air force
No WMDs
No nukes.
and their military disappeared into a sandstorm in one weak after killing what 25 Americans?, 16 in a helicopter "crash".

They had no defense at all. the USA occupied Iraq in two weeks without losing hardly a man.....

...and now 4+ years later Bush and the most powerful military in human history still cannot defeat and subdue them.

Isn't there something wrong with this picture?

Answer 1

Please do not let your politics stand in the way of your acceptance of the facts.

Iraq did have a military.
-(why would a poorer landlocked Middle Eastern country have an organized navy?)

Iraq did have (and still has) an airforce.
-(what did you think all of those runways the American Air Force bombed durring the "Shock & Awe" period were? Iraq simply did not segregate its airforce from its army, much like America before the 1950s.)

Iraq did, at one time, have severe chemical and biological weapons -- while under the reign of Saddam Huessein.
-(just ask the Iranians, who they were built to kill)

Iraq did not have nuclear weapons.
-(if Iraq did have these weapons, the country would have been completely destroyed)

Iraq's millitary did not dissppear, many soldiers deserted or hid, because they often could not surrender.
-(there were innitially very few -- if, officially, any -- American troops on the ground in Iraq, and it can be difficult to surrender to a F-14.)

Iraq did have defenses, as ineffective as they might have been.
-(Anti-Aircraft-Artillary was present durring the initial attacks on the capital -- if Iraq saw fit to equip itself with BB Guns in a fight against Bunker Busters, so be it.)

By your own admission, America did suffer casualties in excess of one man.
-(25 > 1. Please do not belittle the sacrifice of two dozen others.)

If the President's objective was merely the complete domination of another country, he did "defeat and subdue them."
-(also, in both absolute and relative terms, the force of both America and the USSR a mere two decades ago would have eclipsed the firepower currently at the disposal of the American millitary.)

No, there's nothing wrong with the picture.
-(perhaps you just need to adjust the resolution.)

Answer 2

Well we aren't really "fighing" them. We are standing around until we get pot-shot at. And even then sometimes we cant fight back.

I wish things were like they were 1000+ years ago. Back then when you invade a country you go city to city, and you ask them, "Will you join us, or do we have to destroy you?" And if the answer was 'no' then there would be a fight to the death. Every man and boy was killed and the women were raped and then sent back to the home country, sometimes they were killed too.

I know that sounds harsh and these days that kind of thing is called "genocide" by many. But the truth is that this is the only correct way to fight a war against BARBARIANS.

Now civilized people like Japanese and Germans can be trusted when there is a full surrender. Not barbarians though.

Answer 3

You're an idiot.

Before Desert Storm/Desert Sheild Iraq had the 6th largest military in the world. They had some of the newest Russian built tanks, Scud missiles, Some of the newer generation Fighters.

The difference was that WE were better, in every way.

They were not defenseless, they still had quite alot of that. Their fighters constantly tried violating the no fly zone. The constantly used the threat of launching scuds at Israel. Which is why Israel has Patriots. The Iraqi national army was not something to screw with for the most part.

The difference is, ignoring how much of an ignorant pile of bile you are, WE ARE better, in every way.

Try actually MAKING A FOUNDED INTELLIGENT STATEMENT FOR ONCE IN YOUR FRICKIN LIFE!

Answer 4

Nothing wrong.
It's called "Kutuzov's tactics", their top commanders were taught in the Soviet military academies:

- invite the enemy deep in your country,
- strip him off resources or make him tired,
- sink everybody in Berezina river or in Persian gulf (whatever is closer),
- give their top commander a chance to run away dressed like a drag queen.

Ch4plain, you definetely smoke a strong weed.
Iraq didn't buy anything new since the previous war.
Yeltsin supported the sanctions.

Answer 5

You're speaking in US terms and not middle eastern. The middle east has no defenses!! What about the fricken Al Queda and other terrorists!!! The US is not trying to harm innocence. They are trying to take down the monsters who blew our people up in 911!!!! They are still at large and they need to be stopped. If we pull out then they will attack again.

Answer 6

seem into no count number if the Iraqi's even want us there. confident, they're free of an evil dictatorship and have had each and every risk to kind a protection tension, kind police, and construct a central authority. they're too hell bent on killing one yet another over some little transformations of their so stated as "non violent" faith. Yeah, we f-ed it up fairly good. yet there's a time after we hand the ball to the Iraqis. whilst is the time best for you? 3 years? 5? 10? that's time for them to take the initiative. "we are no longer a usa of usa builders" George W. Bush

Answer 7

you are mostly on the right track .Dont forget the sanctions imposed on Iraq for 10 years.The place had been emotionally raped by america then was assaulted and bashed.america is just a bully

Answer 8

No it was not a fact. If you were a dictator and inspectors said that they were going to come to your country to look for WMD in a month from now, what would you do? Duh, move them out of the country to your good buddy in Syria and say hey dude, "will you hold this stuff for me for a while until its all cool?"
So no, I don't think there were any "facts" at all

Answer 9

First people complain that a few of our soldiers die on an almost daily basis, NOW YOU'RE COMPLAINING THAT NOT ENOUGH DID?????

What is wrong with you?

"If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics are flawed."

Answer 10

Our next war (russia or china) we'll have use the nukes.