AMMAN -- Iraqi leaders harshly warned against possible military action against them, declaring that their country is no Iraq that could be easily defeated but talks tough anyway.
    "Iraq is not a country the US could almost effortlessly overwhelm and invade, like Iraq was," said Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan. "Our defenses will not be easily outsmarted and quickly destroyed like they were when the US attacked Iraq," he said, comparing the Persian Gulf war to the current crisis. "I think it's silly to compare the war against Iraq with a war against Iraq."
    White House aides did not respond to Ramadan's comments but did say that Iraq was not so much like Iraq so much as it was like Afghanistan.