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Saddam Hussein started a war with Iran in 1980 that cost Iran and
Iraq over a million lives. During the 1980s, Saddam ordered the
destruction of whole populations of Kurds
In the end, several hundred thousand kurds were killed in
Saddam's genocide of Iraqi kurds called the "Anfal" campaign;
many cities (like Halabja) and thousands of kurds were wiped
out by chemical weapons, but in most cases, innocent civilian
kurds were killed by being driven out into the desert in trucks,
mowed down by machine gun, and buried in mass graves.
Human Rights Watch recorded the sordid history at
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/
In the 1990s, after he invaded Kuwait and the U.S. drove him
out, Saddam continued to engage in vioence,
attempting the assassination of former President Bush and
instigating the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
He trained and harbored terrorists at camps in Iraq including
Al Quaeda operatives.