"We do know however that the US was an important and major backer of Saddam throughout those long years when he was terrorising the Iraqi people."

That according to Ifor

Now between 1973 and 1990 Iraq was considered to be the richest market for arms traders and manufacturers. Here are the figures for those years presented as percentage of total sales:

Russia - 68.9% between 1973 and 1977 they were the sole supplier of arms to Saddam Hussein.
France - 12.7%
China - 11.8%
Others - 4.8%
Egypt - 1.3%
USA - 0.5%

Ifor is asking us to believe that, "the US was an important and major backer of Saddam throughout those long years when he was terrorising the Iraqi people", when during that time they supplied Saddam with less than one percent of the arms required to maintain Saddam in power in order that he could terrorise his people and attack his neighbours. Utterly laughable.