The pro war guys on Mudcat such as Terribus simply do not seem to know what happened in the fairly recent past! Is it because the news is so skewed in the Americam mainstream media?

The USA was a big supplier of armaments,military equipment and cash to Saddam before he invaded Kuwait and blew it with the US .
In 1989 Saddam was supplied with the following equipment by the USA
HELICOPTER ENGINES
VACUUM PUMPS FOR A NUCLEAR PLANT
SOPHISTICATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
COMPUTERS
BACTERIA STRAINS
HUNDREDS OF TONNES OF RAW SARIN
The work of the US -Iraq business Forum was supplemented by Kissinger Associates ,formerly headed by Henry Kissinger,the former US secretary of State and the man who showed his concern for Human Rights and Democracy in Chile in the early 1970s.

The US started its support for the tyrant by giving him vast amounts of credit
Then in the mid 1980s it started shipping him arms and military equipment
By the late 1980s the US was supplying Saddam with essential battlefield intelligence.

The source for the above can be found in Said k Aburish 's book Saddam Hussein -The Politics of Revenge
Albert