Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
They failed to defeat the Kurds and they had it easy with the Shi'ite rising just as the MC had it easy at Fallujah.
The sole reason, of course, that they failed to defeat the Kurds was de facto US protection of northern Iraq--hardly a fair test. They did, however, effectively suppress them in 1975 (following the withdrawal of Iranian support) and again at the end of the Iran-Iraq War (ditto).