In an interview with Saddam Hussein on March 11, 2004, FBI Special Agent George Piro asked why Iraq did not use chemical weapons against the coalition in the First Gulf War. Saddam “stated that it is not Iraqi policy to use chemical weapons against coalition forces. …He asked how Iraq would have been described if it had used chemical weapons. Hussein replied to his own question, ‘We would have been called stupid.’ According to Hussein, chemical weapons, and their use, were never discussed by Iraqi officials before or during the 1991 war.”
– FBI, “Interview Session 13, March 11, 2004,” Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI:, The National Security Archive, March 11, 2004