“During much of the 1980s, Iraq was the world’s single largest purchaser of weapons. According to the U.N. [UNSCOM’s (United Nations Special Commission on Iraq) report on January 25, 1999], it imported 819 long-range combat missiles and then modified more than half of them to reach even more distant targets.”
– Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 28