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Jiang says the post-revolutionary regime had weakened the regular army by arresting, exiling, or executing officers it considered loyal to the Shah, leaving Iran vulnerable when Saddam Hussein invaded in 1980.
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Saddam Hussein
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...here of what happened with Iraq, where we were assured that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. That's true. And we went to..."
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He gives three reasons Iraq was unusually vulnerable: Saddam lacked air defenses, desert terrain favored air power and surveillance, and surprise made Iraqi commanders misread the main U.S. attack.
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"...Does that make sense? Second thing I'll mention is that when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in 1980, Iran didn't really have an army."
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"...to the Shah. Okay? So Iran didn't have an army. And Saddam Hussein had airplanes. He had tanks. He had lots of soldiers. And..."
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"...But the problem is that people don't really ask, what did Saddam Hussein do wrong? Why was this so effective against Saddam Hussein? And..."
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"...America's air supremacy. And the reason why is that in 1991, Saddam Hussein fought a war against America called the first Persian Gulf War...."
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"you would turn my people into terrorists you would empower Iran so there's no way that America could overthrow me would want to overthrow..."
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"...up missile bases because of the kind of concern was that Saddam Hussein would direct all his missiles his scuds against Israel okay so..."
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"...here of what happened with Iraq, where we were assured that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. That's true. And we went to..."
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"...bomb, they're going to incinerate us all. Well, similar to Iraq, Saddam Hussein is a terrible person. And if he gets weapons of mass..."
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"...government and then access to all of the intelligence files of Saddam Hussein. And Saddam Hussein and his people were actually convinced that the..."
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"...-Khal, the MEK, which was the opposition group which sided with Saddam Hussein, you know, the Iranians think you're with an enemy against the..."
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"...2003 the war against Iraq was not a real war because Saddam Hussein didn't have any air defense. He basically gave up even before..."
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"Because Iraq was a balance to Iran. So Saddam Hussein miscalculated. So the problem with the American military machine is that it's run by..."
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