@Hoss @cjd @Bleukitty The problem with that logic is that if Iraq was the forth largest army in the world, they would have in active service 5% of their population.

Iraq in 1991 was an weak nation that did the same thing US did, attack an weak nation that had no way to defend itself against that military mighty.

People forget this, but Iraq was fighting a hard war against Iran for almost 10 years, before they got raped by the US and the "Biggest Coalition since WW2", an USA that was training and ready to fight the Soviets, (which would still have advanced them to Paris, had war broken out)