From: "Gary Britt" 

Don't remember any longer.  There were two threats from Iran.  The war and
fermenting a fanatical rebellion among radical shites in Iraq loyal to
Iran's Khomeini.

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.

Gary 


"David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
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> On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:46:32 -0500, "Gary Britt"
>  wrote in message
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>
> | Along with the Europeans.  The difference is we stopped, the French and
> | Germans didn't.  It was necessary to keep Saddam from being defeated by
> | Khomeini who, if he took over Iraq would have been more dangerous to the
> | world and the USA than Saddam.
>
> Please refresh my memory -- what was the origin, and the goal, of the
> conflict between Iran and Iraq?  Who started it?
>
> Were either of them actually trying to take over control of the other?

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