Declassifed U.S. Documents show that American officials KNEW that Saddam was USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE KURDS & the Iranians, but decided to support Saddam anyway...first in secret, then formal relations were restored in November 1984. Not only that, they secretly okayed shipments of CHEMICAL PRECURSORS TO IRAQ and instructed the American UN Delegate to garner support from the Wetern Countries for a motion of 'NO DECISION' on a draft UN Resolution to condemn Iraqi use of Chemical Weapons...or failing that to ABSTAIN (& EFFECTIVELY VETO THE RESOLUTION) !!!! ********************************** A United States Declassifed Document from Nov 1, 1983 states: "We have recently received additional information confirming Iraqi use of Chemical Weapons." "in order to maintain the credibility of US policy on CW," it would be a good idea to mention these measure to Iraq in an effort to "reduce or halt, what now appears to be Iraq's almost daily use of CW"...