Today in 1980 Iraq attacked Iran.

1 November 1983: a State Department memo reports that Iraq is using chemical weapons "almost daily" against Iran, with the capability supplied "primarily from Western firms."

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Three weeks later, Reagan signs a directive on the Iran-Iraq war that doesn't mention chemical weapons at all.

December 1983: Rumsfeld flies to Baghdad and shakes Saddam's hand.
Around one million Iranians were exposed to poison gas. Halabja was gassed. The US still handed Saddam satellite intelligence.

Declassified files prove it. Nobody has ever been punished.