Saddam orders the extermination of the Iraqi Kurdish population

This is pre-1990, pre-Gulf War, where Iraq was seen as a modest (although distant) ally and Saddam Hussein as a counterweight too Iran. The people saying we'll help the Kurds are trying too use the views and policy decisions of 2002-2003 and put them in the mid-1980's.

Suffice to say, we aren't going to say boo over this. Oh yeah, we'll make some condemnations, probably have lovely little speeches at the UN... and then go straight back to giving Iraq intelligence and dual-use technology to fight Iran. Reagan won't have a problem with it, this is the same man who supported neo-Fascist death squads against a (ultimately) democratically elected government because said government was socialist.

So he's kind of like Elvis? Be a bit difficult to have a Saddam sighting since he was quite dead the last time anybody saw him.

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Hussein is a very common Islamic name. Saddam is also a very common Arabic (and possibly also Islamic).
 
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The US will have a blot on its foreign policy- a big one.
Turkey and/or Iran may intervene.
I may not have a job in this TL, as by bosses are both Kurdish. (They left Iraq at the end of Provide Comfort.)
 

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No, I mean how Elvis Presley is simple known as Elvis. One name recognition.
Well, basically yes. If you're really interested in the issue, here's a link to the discussions behind it. But for those who like cliff notes:

1. His originally did not have a surname in the Western or Eastern sense, with a name something like "Saddam, son of Hussein al-Majid, part of the al-Tikriti tribe."

2. When Iraq's Baath Socialist Party first came to power in 1968, tribal names where banned (for various reasons), and he chose "Saddam Hussein" as his name.

3. Iraq and Southeast Asia in general called him "Saddam" (among other reasons there being various Husseins), and Saddam himself wanted to be referred as Saddam (hence all the places called Saddam).

4. Western Media were confused in general :p
 
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