In the fall of 1980, Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, attacked Iran with what was considered to be the 3d largest army in the world, at the time. Saddam, not only had equipped his army with the finest, most modern weaponry available, he had a supply chain set up to replenish supplies as needed. Even with air superiority, not only did Iraq's forces not prosper, the poorly equipped Iranian forces halted the advance of the Iraqis but they began to push into Iraq itself. In effect, the Iranians had stopped the massive Iraqi war machine with their own bodies.
Iran took a million casualties but they stopped the Iraqi invasion. If the neocons, who predicted that the Iraqis would welcome us with candy and who are now back in power, in the Trump Administration, are predicting a cakewalk in Iran, they will again be leading us into another tragic mistake,
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