“Before entering the minefields, the children [now] wrap themselves in blankets and they roll on the ground, so that their body parts stay together after the explosion of the mines and one can carry them to the graves.”
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Sick demonic religion...
I’ve been telling folks about this piece of history for years to illustrate the demonic mentality of Iran. Iraq gassed the Kurds during the same war. “Religion of peace” my tuchis!
LOL. It became clear (at latest after the Defense of Khorramshar) that Saddam's "professional, well-armed military" was no match for Iran's forces on Iranian turf.
Although the author's point isn't military history or strategy, this needs to be pointed out.
The Iran-Iraq war had essentially two phases:
1. Iraq tries to conquer Iran - Fails.
2. Iran tries to conquer Iraq - Fails.
The problem with Iran's military was primarily purges by the mullah regime against the Army officer corps, which were suspected of being loyal to the Shah. In a similar vein the Army was hamstrung by the "Revolutionary Guards". The Army tried to fight a conventional, "rational" war. The "Guards" insisted on suicidal frontal wave attacks inflicting heavy casualties.
The Army was professional, the Guards fanatical.
And despite the lack of continued support and spares for their primarily US/Western equipment (deliver en masse prior to 1979) the Iranian military, especially the Airforce showed professional superiority to their Soviet-supplied Iraqi counterparts, which outnumbered them in the final stages of the war.
Iraq despite massive international support (financial, militarily and politically) couldn't get anything more than a cease-fire (which Saddam pleaded for) and stalemate against the downtrodden and disproportionally under-supplied Iranians.
Q. How can Iran bomb Israel and not kill hundreds of thousands (millions?) of fellow Muslims?
A. They don’t care.
Muslims kill Muslims all the time. In Islam a man can kill a person, even his own family, for “insulting” him.
The average Muslim will kill 10s of Muslims for every one Infidel he kills. And women and infidels have no value at all.
What I point out is that Islam is no about converting people. In fact, one is much more likely to be killed as a convert because as soon as you convert, no matter which sect you choose, in that instant you have over 50% of all Muslims which will be in different sects from yours, who want you beheaded.
Islam is not about religion or conversion. It is solely about gaining power through murder. This is how it was founded and this will be its ultimate destruction.