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Originally Posted by mangamuscle
The more I think about it, this situation is a mirror image of the iraq war. Back then iraq was under Russia's sphere of influence but they didn't risk going to war directly with the USA, they just gave military support. The USA btw used the lame WMD excuse to start that war.
Back then it had been decades since the last big armed conflict the USA had fought (the vietnam war, which btw, they lost).
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The Gulf war started when the Iraqi army invaded its neighbors, not because Iraq had chemical weapons.
The Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973 and the last US soldiers withdrew from Vietnam in 1975, 16 years before the Gulf war.