on top of all that I have said--let me tell you some news:
....with or without the US help/etc--saddam was going to gas/kill/murder Kurds/Iranian soldiers/etc ------------!!!!!!!!!!
the gassing had NOTHING to do with the US---the US gave NO help in the gassing/etc
Except we sold him the chemicals... and gave him the intelligence... and gave him easy credit so he could keep funding his war machine.... and when he did it, we went into official denial mode.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tes-looked-the-other-way-on-chemical-weapons/
In 1988, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered chemical weapons attacks against Kurdish resistance forces, but the relationship with Iraq at the time was deemed too important to rupture over the matter. The United States did not even impose sanctions.
Shit, we didn't even make a stink when Saddam almost sank the USS Stark. We just loved us some Saddam back in the 1980's, he was so manly!
USS Stark incident - Wikipedia