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.

Hussein is a very common Islamic name. Saddam is also a very common Arabic (and possibly also Islamic).
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.
Hussein is a very common Islamic name. Saddam is also a very common Arabic (and possibly also Islamic).
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