CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran

[Canelo Phresh]

they didn't care. all the major powers, US/USSR/UK/France/China/West Germany, and all the rich arab powers all armed and/or supported iraq and saddam against iran.

the only western power to help iran?

wait for it....... ISRAEL.

i **** you not.

Iraq had a relevant nuclear program back then and Israel wasn't having it.

[Left Hook Tua]

Iraq had a relevant nuclear program back then and Israel wasn't having it.

pretty much.

israel and iran was taking turns trying to blow up that reactor.

i remember when saddam was trying to build a supergun.

iran or israel assassinated the canadian designer gerald bull.

i saw a hbo movie about it.

[lazy]

This settles the WMD's issue with Iraq. So much for the argument that they did not have them.

[Misty55]

in saddams defense he was using them on iranian troops.

armed combatants.

The Halabja chemical attack (Kurdish: کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە Kîmyabarana Helebce), also known as Halabja massacre or Bloody Friday,[1] was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Southern Kurdistan. The attack was part of the Al-Anfal campaign in northern Iraq, as well as part of the Iraqi attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the fall of the town to the Iranian forces and Kurdish guerrillas.

The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians.[1][2] Thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack.[3] The incident, which has been officially defined as an act of genocide against the Kurdish people in Iraq,[4] was and still remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.[5]

The Halabja attack has been recognized as a separate event from the Anfal Genocide that was also conducted against the Kurdish people by the Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein.[6] The Iraqi High Criminal Court recognized the Halabja massacre as an act of genocide on March 1, 2010, a decision welcomed by the Kurdistan Regional Government. The attack was also condemned as a crime against humanity by the Parliament of Canada.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack

[Misty55]

No, chemical weapons are banned in international conflicts.

Also the US provided intel on Iranian forces, Iraq used that intel to deploy banned weapons. Conflating these two aspects is misleading.

Saddam got his WMD from USA.

[Misty55]

The US and Russia possess the biggest stockpiles of chemical weapons. The Brits apparently supplied the chemicals to Syria. Where should we start? The US?

Ever heard of Dr David Kelly?

He ran the UK chemical and bio weapons dept, but was sent to disarm Saddam of his WMD, but when he said it was a laod of rubbish and Saddam didnt have any weapons left...he was found dead in the woods...

[titanium]

Great an alt created to make up propaganda!