You are wrong on all counts, CarolC (as usual).

Saddam Hussein started the Iraq-Iran war. He chose to attack Iran (in 1980) because he thought it would be a walk-over. He was wrong.

At the start of the Iraq-Iran was Saddam's weapons were almost all Soviet-made and Soviet-supplied. The Soviet Union did not support the war and slowed the sales, resulting in Iraq buying arms from dozens of countries including Columbia and Israel. Much of those arms may have been US-made but, for the most part, they we supplied by foreign countries and rogue arms dealers.

Saddam made another great mistake by invading Kuwait (in 1990) when he felt that the US no longer had the courage to fight. He was wrong again.

To end the Gulf War (actually phase I of it) Saddam agreed to desrtoy Iraq's chemical and biological stash (well-documented by British Intelligence reports) and behave like a good member of the World community. His own agreement authorized drastic consequences if he did not comply. He did not, mandating the Gulf war to continue (actually to phase III): the ouster of Saddam Hussein and his tyranical government.

Iraq is now lead by people who need and deserves our help. Let us all support them and help them to thrive.