No, that is a myth.
At one time, during the Iran-Iraq war we gave Iraq intel on the location of Iranian military sites at a time Iran was targeting US flagged oil tankers, and trying to launch speedboat attacks on our ships. It was a way to let two regimes we had no love for- Iran and Iraq- weaken each other with minimal effort on our part, certainly not an alliance with Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein then attacked an Iranian nuclear site, while Israel took out Iraq’s nuclear site. Also at that time we were more heavily dependent on Iraqi oil because Iran had not long before been taken over by the mullahs.
The US has backed the Kurds against Saddam Hussein and his Baathist party since Richard Nixon’s presidency.
The US has backed Saddam since 1958.
You've saved me a lot of time replying to those assertions, which would have been nowhere near as good.
Fantastic posts; and free to boot!