Iranian ‘War Machine’ Threatens US With Annihilation

Iranian ‘War Machine’ Threatens US With Annihilation


“Any country that fights an eight year war with Iraq to a standstill isn’t going to last very long against the United States Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy...and you can take that to the bank.”  


By Dell Hill

From September 1980 to August 1988, Iraq and Iran engaged in what’s generally referred to as the First Persian Gulf War.  As many as 500,000 were killed and many thousands more suffered debilitating injuries from the use of mustard gas - primarily by the Iraqis and used against their own people, the Kurds, who control the northeastern sector of Iraq.  The final prisoner exchanges didn’t actually take place until many years later.

For eight long years the two countries battled in World War I style, trench warfare and the outcome was basically a stalemate.

In 1991, a coalition of forces headed by the United States, totally destroyed nearly the entire Iraqi military in just about a month.  The Iraqis were so badly beaten their elite troops were surrendering to embedded news crews and their very best fighting forces never left Baghdad.  A dozen Iraqi fighter jets took to the air and beat an immediate path east, to Tehran, rather than engage America’s air power superiority.

When Saddam Hussein (may he languish in Hell) decided to invade Kuwait, the American military drove the Iraqis out, littering the roads with totally destroyed Iraqi ground war fighting vehicles.  The entire effort took only days.

When that same Saddam Hussein refused to comply with UN sanctions for many months beyond the deadline, US led coalition forces drove “right up the gut” and liberated Iraq in a classic military wipe-out.  Again, the highly touted Iraqi Revolutionary Guard forces cowered in Baghdad, choosing not to tangle with the American military.

Knowing this history is significant, because now the Iranian military is once again rattling sabres and pounding their chests, claiming they’re not Iraq and will defeat any American military operation that might be conducted on their land.  And in the process, they tell us that 150,000 Iranian missiles will rain down on Israel and Turkey, if there’s any attack on their nuclear warhead production facilities.  (That’s the former nuclear energy program that Iran has created totally as a source of electrical generating stations.)

Yawn.  

We’ve heard all this before.  It’s the same rhetoric that Hussein continually screamed to anyone who would listen just prior to getting his clock cleaned by those evil liberators from the US.

Wake up, Iran.  Lay off the poppies and water pipes long enough to smell the coffee.

Without exaggeration, the Iranian military would be decimated by the Texas National Guard.  Any country that fights an eight year war with Iraq to a standstill isn’t going to last very long against the United States Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy...and you can take that to the bank.