Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Petronski
Saddam, in contrast, was contained by an aggressive sanctions program, and constant military flyovers, and he had no military to speak of. Riiiight, herr general."""

If my statement is wrong, which part of it was wrong? Was there not an aggressive sanctions program that was keeping Iraq from economic expansion? Was there not a systematic program of military flyovers to keep in Iraq in check? Did Iraq have a powerful military? (That it didn't was evidenced by our uninterrupted drive to Bagdhad; there was no military to stop us). Comparing Saddam's weak and contained situation in the early 80s to Hitler's military powerful and aggressively expansive stance in the 1930s simply doesn't hold water.

40 posted on 05/04/2006 10:46:46 AM PDT by churchillbuff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies ]


To: churchillbuff
Was there not an aggressive sanctions program that was keeping Iraq from economic expansion?

Indeed there was.

It was called Oil for Food.

110 posted on 05/04/2006 1:47:52 PM PDT by AmishDude (AmishDude, servant of the dark lord Xenu.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson