False. Gulf Arabs funded Saddam. If the author is this clueless of basic facts on the ground in the ME, one has to wonder why we should take any other assumptions he makes seriously.
RE: False. Gulf Arabs funded Saddam
You mean we never helped Saddam in his war against the Iranian Mullah’s?
There have been persistent talk that the USA, through Donald Rumsfeld helped Saddam with his Chemical Weapons development...