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<blockquote data-quote="LarryBird" data-source="post: 4106750" data-attributes="member: 76548">They didn&#039;t do it on their own. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" target="_blank">United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War - Wikipedia</a>We weren&#039;t the only ones to help them.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_aid_to_combatants_in_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" target="_blank">International aid to combatants in the Iran–Iraq War - Wikipedia</a>There was major world interest in helping Iraq fight that war against Iran. Not even necessarily to win the war either, but to prolong it for as long as possible, and make it costly for Iran, both in loss of life and expense. The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China all supported Iraq. The rest of the middle east supplied Iraq with VAST SUMS of money - Saudi Arabia $31B, Kuwait $8B, UAE $8B - this was in the early to mid 80&#039;s too. That was a <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> ton of money. So your post is part disingenuous, and part [USER=24302]@vantexan[/USER] talking out of his ass conjecture, as per usual.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LarryBird, post: 4106750, member: 76548"] They didn't do it on their own. [URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War"]United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War - Wikipedia[/URL] We weren't the only ones to help them. [URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_aid_to_combatants_in_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War"]International aid to combatants in the Iran–Iraq War - Wikipedia[/URL] There was major world interest in helping Iraq fight that war against Iran. Not even necessarily to win the war either, but to prolong it for as long as possible, and make it costly for Iran, both in loss of life and expense. The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China all supported Iraq. The rest of the middle east supplied Iraq with VAST SUMS of money - Saudi Arabia $31B, Kuwait $8B, UAE $8B - this was in the early to mid 80's too. That was a :censored: ton of money. So your post is part disingenuous, and part [USER=24302]@vantexan[/USER] talking out of his ass conjecture, as per usual. [/QUOTE]

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