It's really too bad the US and the UK etc backed Saddam so enthusiastically (if surreptitiously at times) all through the war with Iran isn't it? - including turning a complete blind eye to atrocities carried out by him against the Kurds - even to the extent of helping out by shooting down a Iranian airliner.

And of course when the Turkish air force today flies over and bombs Kurds in the "no-fly zone", the US/UK don't make any effort to stop them.

This is politics - maybe in 30 years the facts, whatever they are, will come out. And whatever they are, they won't be the ones we are told at the time. They never are.

Here's a song I wrote about that kind of stuff a couple of years ago, in the context of Kosovo:

Collateral Damage
I'd a neighbour was cruel to his children,
The poor kids had a swine for a dad.
I just couldn't stand it no longer,
The racket was driving me mad.
It was plain that I had to take action,
Put an end to his sinister games,
And I felt such a strange satisfaction
Seeing his house as it went up in flames.
It's a shame the flames spread once they'd started,
oh the smoke and the smell and the heat.
In the morning I fairly felt gutted,
but then, so was the rest of the street.

But I couldn't do nothing,
I had to do something,
He was such a swine and a slob
It's a pity the kids were burnt up in the blaze,
while the neighbour was down at the pub,
But I couldn't do nothing,
I had to do something,
He was ever so nasty and bad
Though the outcome was grim,
it was all down to him
And the matches were all that I had...