Yes, and just for the record, who was that illustrious and courageous POTUS at that time? If you said the inane, incompetant Peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia you are a winner. BTW, the leftist liars are always spreading the false canard that Ronald Reagan had coaxed saddam into attacking the senile ayattolah. Anyone with a half a brain knows it was the Carterites that gave the green light.
Are you saying that Carter was president at the beginning of the Gulf War in August 1990? If you are, then you are wrong as he was president before Ronald Reagan's 8 years in the 1980. The American hostages in Iran were released in conjunction with Reagan's election, and covert support was given to Saddam Hussein by us as he carried out the long and bloody war with Iran during the 1980's.
I'm going to check out the dates for the start of the Iran/Iraq war, but I doubt that either Carter or Reagan had much influence on Saddam's plans. He was plenty war hungry without any help from us.
I just checked out some sites at "US support for Iran-Iraq war".
Saddam began the war on Sept 22, 1980. President Reagan was elected 7 weeks later. In June of 1982, when it appeared that Iran might be winning, the decision was made for us to support Iraq as the lesser of two evils. George Bush, Sr. as the Vice President and former director of the CIA was very active in this behind the scenes.
Subsequently, both countries attacked shipping in the Persian Gulf and by 1987 a number of countries had had enough. Some 500 ships were damaged and over 300 seaman killed in this phase called "the battle of the tankers". There is a lot more interesting stuff, but it is after 3 am and I am going to bed now.