Hell, U.S. support dried up *during* the war. We gave him just enough to keep him on his feet and prevent him from getting toppled and tapered it off when dangerous moments passed.
Not true.. and a fairly typical piece of American self delusion ..
As I have previously shown US support
increased as the Iran Iraq war went on.
It started with open material shipment to Iraq, despite the fact that Iraq initiated hostilities and appeared to have the upper hand.
(though these were supposedly "not for military purposes")
When Iran began to fight back the US dropped accusations of supporting terrorism by Iraq and reestablished diplomatic relations with Iraq (but not Iran).
Critically mid war the US asked for and tried enforcing an embargo of third party weapons purchases by Iran but
not Iraq.
Later the US Ignored an Iraqi strike that killed US sailors but seriously attacked and damaged Iranian forces because of a threat to civilian navigation
The same trend continued after the Iran-Iraq ceasefire with US diplomatic moves pro Iraq
despite the fact that Iraq was known to have used Chemical weapons during the war
(and even more extensively against the Kurdish rebels in the same timeframe).
US economic aid was given to Iraq and none even offered to Iran despite the fact they had suffered larger damage and casualties.
And on the eve of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the US ambassador explicitly stated that the US "does not have an opinion on the disagreement between Kuwait and Iraq" and that the US had no intention "to start an economic war against Iraq"