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Originally posted by Phaenx
They fired on our planes patrolling the no fly zone on a daily basis, guess they beat us to it eh?
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The United States, Britain and France began in 1991 denying Iraq the right to fly in parts of its own airspace as a way of implementing UN resolutions urging protection for the Kurds in northern Iraq and the Shiites in the south from the wrath of Saddam. But the "no-fly" zone was never specifically mandated by the UN Security Council, and was rejected from the outset as a violation of Iraq's sovereignty. We brought it on ourselves. It's like a homeowner shooting a burglar, then the burglar going "What the fuck did you do that for?"
Plus, I'm sure if Iraqi planes (if they had any) started flying over the United States we'd shoot them down in a second too.