Iraq-gate (Gulf War)

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Iraq-gate (Iraq gate) was a series of scandals involving the US and British support for Saddam Hussein up until the first Gulf War.

During the mid to late 1980s amidst the Iran-Iraq war and up to the first Gulf War, the US and Britain provided financial and tactical support to the Iraqi government. Subsequent charges that the American administration had supported Saddam militarily and technologically became known as the "Iraq-gate" scandal.

In 1993, the U.S. Justice Department released a finding that there was no evidence to support the allegations that the George H.W. Bush administration had knowingly allowed Saddam to use agricultural loan credits to purchase military supplies.