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Originally Posted by Rochard
I could care less if Iraq had chemical weapons or not. The truth is Iraq signed a peace treaty establishing the no fly zones, and then shot at our planes. No matter what planet you are from, if you shoot at a jet it's an act of war. We were already in a defacto state of war - they would target and shoot at US war planes, and we would bomb them.
The rest is just details.
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They did not agree to "no fly zones" and it was not even brought up at the time of their surrender. The U.S. and France established the no fly zones unilaterally at a later date when Saddam began to use aircraft against the Kurds in the North and the Shiites in the South. If I remember correctly France later with drew from patrolling the "no fly zone".
But yes...Iraq spent years of "lighting" up our Aircraft and even firing on them on occasion...and yes our Aircraft would frequently take out their radar and and anti aircraft defenses.