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Originally posted by Moses
He had no army. Certainly Kurdish independence would have been easily accomplished by decree at that point. Admittedly a Sunni/Shiite partition would have been trickier.
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I agree that we could have done it, but not from outside the borders. And while I'll agree that he had no army with which to fight us, he certainly had one strong enough to quash any internal dissension of the Kurds or otherwise. There is just no effin way Saddam would have stood for a decrease in his empire. We stopped him from expanding and he could barely stomach that, but no way would he surrender any of his control without a gun to his head.