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darkstar

(5,797 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:21 PM Feb 28

And wouldn't it have been nice

to have a well-armed, secular power neighboring Iran to help hold them in check all these years? I mean, Iraq had the fourth largest military in the world, right?

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