Saddam gassed Iraqis too. The US didn’t care, because Saddam’s regime was useful for killing Iranians. An Iraqi warplane his a US Navy warship with an Exocet missile. No problem. Because Iraq was useful for killing Iranians.
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One of the pump seal company’s big jobs in the late 70s was a chemical complex near Basrah, Iraq. When Saddam decided to take advantage of the upheaval in Iran, Basrah was pretty much on the front line. One day, the pump seal company’s rep who had called on the GC for the plant in Basrah, called me up. I say “hey Frank, SODIC called. The Iranians bombed the daylights out of the plant in Basrah. They want you to go over there and work up a replacement parts list”. Poor Frank about lost it.
Steve