Agreed. Do you also agree that Khomeni extended the war for another 6 years after there was a cease fire attempt in 1982? This can be justified by some people (rightly or wrongly), but do you agree that Khomeni could have mitigated the damage and ended the war early?
Khomeni did not extend the war alone..both Iraq and Iraq covertly re-armed themselves through clandestine arms transfers...and sooner or later they were both in mood to go on the offensive against each other..
He killed tens of thousands of Shias and Kurds, so you can figure out yourself. But not because he hated Shias on a sect based hatred, simply because they opposed him the most. But overall, he was against Iraq, the very reason Iraq is a mess today is this lunatic who decided to launch 2 disastrous wars in 80s and 90s. Iraq would be more prosperous than UAE today if Saddam didn't rule it.
Being instrument of Irani mullahs is what sparked the Shia genocide as these zombie tried to import the blood khomeni revolution from Tehran into Baghdad..the events after the fall of Iraq in 2003 proved Saddam to be right..Shia milltias own Iraq now..Iraq is unofficially the 15th province of Iran...14 Being "arab occupied" Bahrain as per Iran logic..
Now that Saddam is gone, you can clearly see Iranian intervention in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. Only a fool would ignore this. Funny thing is that Saudi leadership might be realizing what a blunder it committed by facilitating Saddam's downfall; they even tried to drag Pakistan into this Shia-Wahhabi tussle but thankfully my country dodged the bullet.
The Saudis and Emirates opposed the downfall of Saddam and were in favor of negotiation..Jordan also opposed..they even offered to open up Arar border crossing for easing trade...Kuwait was the cheerleader of whole invasion game show ..seeking to even out its humiliation of 1991 and opposing the pressure of GCC heavy weights...Kuwait unilaterally assisted all preparation for Iraq invasion...The saudis clearly knew what a hot pot it would unleash if Iraq was to destabilize..
In reality...later on Iran and Saudi arabia both played covert role n displacing Saddam...in a tit for tat proxy war against each other using Iraq as a battle ground..
US intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war
Julian Borger in Washington
Guardian Weekly
An urgent investigation has been launched in Washington into whether Iran played a role in manipulating the US into the Iraq war by pas sing on bogus intelligence through Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi Nation al Congress, it emerged this week.
Some intelligence officials now believe that Iran used the hawks in the Pentagon and the White House to get rid of a hostile neighbour, and pave the way for a Shia-ruled Iraq.
According to a US intelligence official, the CIA has hard evidence that Mr Chalabi and his intelligence chief, Aras Karim Habib, passed US secrets to Tehran, and that Mr Habib has been a paid Iranian agent for several years, involved in passing intelligence in both directions.
The CIA has asked the FBI to investigate Mr Chalabi's contacts in the Pentagon to discover how the INC acquired sensitive information that ended up in Iranian hands.
The implications are far-reaching.
Mr Chalabi and Mr Habib were the channels for much of the intelligence on Iraqi weapons on which Washington built its case for war.
"It's pretty clear that Iranians had us for breakfast, lunch and dinner," said an intelligence source in Washington on Monday. "Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the US for several years through Chalabi."
Larry Johnson, a former senior counter-terrorist official at the state department, said:
"When the story ultimately comes out we'll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history. They persuaded the US and Britain to dispose of its greatest enemy."
Mr Chalabi has vehemently rejected the allegations as "a lie, a fib and silly". He accused the CIA director, George Tenet, of a smear campaign against himself and Mr Habib.
However, it is clear that the CIA - at loggerheads with Mr Chalabi for more than eight years - believes that it has caught him red-handed.
"The suggestion that Chalabi is a victim of a smear campaign is outrageous," a US intelligence official said. "It's utter nonsense. He passed very sensitive and classified information to the Iranians. We have rock solid information that he did that."
"As for Aras Karim [Habib] being a paid agent for Iranian intelligence, we have very good reason to believe that is the case," added the intelligence official, who did not want to be named. He said that Mr Chalabi had had overt links with Tehran "for a long period of time".
An intelligence source in Washington said the CIA confirmed its long-held suspicions when it discovered that a piece of information from an electronic communications intercept by the National Security Agency had ended up in Iranian hands. The information was so sensitive that it had been restricted to a handful of officials.
Mr Habib, a Shia Kurd who is being sought by Iraqi police since a raid on INC headquarters last week, has been Mr Chalabi's righthand man for more than a decade. He ran a Pentagon-funded intelligence collection programme in the run-up to the invasion and put US officials in touch with Iraqi defectors who made claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Laurie Mylroie, a US Iraq analyst and one of the INC's most vocal backers, dismissed the allegations as the product of a grudge among CIA and state department officials driven by a pro-Sunni, anti-Shia bias.
She said that after the CIA raised questions about Mr Habib's Iranian links, the Pentagon's Defence Intelligence Agency conducted a lie-detector test on him in 2002, which he passed with "flying colours".
"This is people who opposed the war with long knives drawn for people who supported the war," Ms Mylroie said.
https://www.theguardian.com/guardianweekly/story/0,12674,1225859,00.html