Reply #5: Any gas that was delivered

[MADem]

...was delivered by helicopter. Who made the helos? Bell Helicopter International, Inc, headquartered in the great state of Texas. How did the Iraqis get the helos? Foreign military sales...a lot of the leftovers that were originally intended for the deposed Shah.

Back then, we were all about keeping Iran in check, and Saddam was OUR boy to do that. Now, he's persona non grata, but back then, he was "our thug" and we were happy to let him do his dirty work, and who knows, we might well have suggested courses of action to him.

And we could have given two shits about the Kurds. We would have sacrificed every last one of them to keep Iran contained in the post-Shah environment.