Pipe fittings are used to connect pipes. There are different varieties of pipe fittings made of various materials and available in various shapes and sizes. Pipe adapters, couplings, elbows, tees, sleeves, flanges, bulkhead fittings, reducers, valves etc. are all different types of pipe fittings.
After losing most of his territorial gains by May 1982 (when Iran recaptured Khorramshahr), Saddam Husseinâs strategic response was to proclaim a unilateral cease-fire (June 10, 1982) while ordering Iraqi forces to withdraw to the border.
For all of those reasons, Baghdad did not believe that the Bush administration was serious about going to war in 2003. Saddam Hussein looked down upon the United Statesâ military might, seeing it as a paper tiger. He saw the American defeat in Vietnam as a sign of its weakness.