From: Adam Flinton 

David N. Barnett wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:09:39 -0500, "Gary Britt"
>  wrote in message
:
>
> | As far as the war, they were pretty evenly matched throughout, and given
the
> | vaunted Arab army strategic skills and high levels of training, the best
> | description of the war was the Incompetent versus the Inept.
>
> Their evenness was maintained by US support for Iraq.

& Arms supplies to the Iranians.

> Reagan
> administration insiders have admitted that it was in our best
> intestest to prolong the Iran/Iraq war as long as possible, and we
> dribbled support to Iraq to maintain parity.  If Iraq had had the
> upper hand, we surely would have found a way to support Iran.
>
You did. It was called Iran-Contra.

Adam

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