I'm familiar with the material. It falls within the "symptom" grouping of which I'm hoping the longer running "root cause" starts to get some attention. It's also a valid piece to this tragic long running chain of events. A chain that goes all the way back to creating artificial political boundaries post WW II. These artificial political boundaries drawn in the sand in ancient historic tribal lands where fixed boundaries may be next to nothing in historic cultural, or current social value.

The article cited also quotes "use on battlefield" which is an entirely separate subject that Saddam's use of chemical weapons on entire Kurdish civilian populations. It might actually be that was the beginnings of Saddam's "Fall from grace" from his sponsors. Folks also conveniently (with short term myopic memory) forget the US support in that time period was directly related to the fall of the Shaw of Iran and the perceived balance of interests between Iran and Iraq. Right or wrong, everything is relative.

A situation running for decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years can't be resolved by fine grain analysis or we get lost in the details and the world will continue to look more or less like it does today. Some course grain analysis might help move the conversation forward.