Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Iran-Iraq War | Animated History (REMASTER IN DESCRIPTION)" video.

  1. Major error: the ayatollah terminated the war after the USN shot down his airliner. THAT was the trigger event -- not the battle front. the ayatollah was self-convinced that the USA had explicitly joined Iraq. That's why the war ended so soon after the USN gaff. This fiasco also directly triggered the loss of Pan Am's 747 over Lockerbie. The Iranians paid Khaddaffi for that operation as retaliation. It took years for the US government to tie everything together. BTW, the peshmerga are a NORTHERN anti-Saddam faction. None ever existed in the Shi'ite zone of Iraq -- strongly implied by your commentary and your graphics. Infamously, Saddam gassed them. Donald Rumsfeld was in Bagdad to sell medicine. He was the CEO of G.D. Searle at the time. He refused to grant Saddam ANY credit. Saddam wanted medicine 'on the cuff' -- of course. Reagan refused to give Saddam ANY military related -- or even dual-use -- goods. Saddam's buddies were FRANCE, GERMANY and the USSR. The French even sent military officers to Iraq. They were the magic brains that straightened out Saddam's rotten military. The French hated chemical munitions, so Saddam used mis-labelled rounds right in front of them. These are the rounds that the USA discovered all over H2 and H3 -- and which made their way into the insurgency. Because they were mis-labelled, the fanatics did not know what they had their hands on. Only in 2011 did the NY Times admit that these puppies were being discovered ALL ALONG. Any single round could've killed thousands of New Yorkers riding the subway -- IF the fanatics knew what they had and how to get it to work. ( They were state-of-the-art binary nerve agent rounds. )
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