Saddam did not have any US weapons to use against us. Iraq obtained its weapons from the Russians, China, France, etc.
The only thing we sold him were some unarmed helicopters, though he had the outfitted with Russian guns later, so I don’t know what you are talking about.
Well, my husband and I were living over there from 1980-84 (KSA) and what news we did get was usually filtered through too many media to be believed. I take your word for it.