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What were the Irais supposed to use on those tanks, toilet brushes?

Get with current event's will you. The Iraqi's are armed better than we are. They have been for some time now, but don't let the facts get in your way. Blackbird.

I don't buy for one minute that the Iraqi population was better armed than us but just sat around watching their daughters get raped; it just wasn't that simple. However, let's look at the facts that you aren't letting get in your way:

The 1991 uprising made early gains, but was quickly crushed. We called for these folks to rise up, then we stood around while they were slaughtered when they didn't have the arms to handle the heavy troops. They did what you asked, they rose up, and they died in futility. We owe these people a debt of honor, but you call them gutless.

You also seem to have forgotten the "gutless" Iraqi people in the northern Kurdish areas. Do they count, or does fighting Saddam off and holding a chunk of territory for years not constitute resistance?

Saddam had one of the most intrusive secret police forces in memory. If Joe Iraqi has no leadership, no idea who feels the same and no idea how many of his neighbors are Ba'ath party informants, how exactly does he become the next Boris Yeltsin?

Lastly, even if the Iraqi people were a bunch of gutless wonders, why exactly would that prevent us from taking down a regime that funds, trains and harbors terrorists?