The policy was accelerated in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War, in which the Kurds backed the Islamic republic. In 1988, Saddam Hussein unleashed a campaign of vengeance on the Kurds that included the chemical attack on Halabja. . ..…

The war in Iraq cost the US government up to $2 trillion dollars, much of it in vain. . Once Saddam Hussein fled Baghdad in the opening days of April 2003, the George W. ..…

In the 1970s, U.S and encouraged them to attack the regime of Saddam Hussein Iraq, on the grounds that Iraq had become Soviet client state. ..…