Israel and Iraq: The Forbidden Topic

[NicFed]

The single most glaring and obvious question that is never asked or answered.

Was Iraq an eminent threat to Israel?

If Saddam was even a remote threat to anyone except a rival Arab or Islamic state, one of the most powerful, best equipped and best trained militaries in the world, Israel, would have taken action.

Israel has nuclear weapons; Israel does not belong to any significant nuclear treaty. Israel can deliver nuclear weapons by land, sea and air. Nuclear armed Israel has a formidable and extremely well trained conventional military machine. Example: they have the best fighter-bombers in the world. (F-15I)

Substitute Israel for Iraq and you would be seeing unparalleled sophistication of warfare. Our military losses, without nukes being used, would be in the tens of thousands, our economy would be crippled.

Iraq would have needed to increase its military budget ten fold for many years just to approach Israel’s present day level of military leverage.
Israel is top dog in the Middle East; it would have taken out anything remotely approaching a real threat from Saddam.

Keep an eye on Iran’s reactors.

[Lithos]

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