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...
Persistent talk from the American Left, maybe.
I hear this often from Leftists, that the USA supplied Saddam.
Yet he had only had French Mirages and Soviet MiGs, Scuds and T-72s.
Every Iraqi weapons system was European or Soviet. None were from the USA.
Every time I point this out they go away mad and confused, yet it is true. We never sold as much as a bullet to him.
Perhaps there was some Kissingeresque Realpolitik going on between the powers but the United States did not in any substantial way help Saddam Hussein.