In The Iraq War Reader, Murray Waas wrote: “On August 20, 1988, the day the Iran-Iraq cease-fire went into effect, Saddam Hussein did not see a need to end the terror. Now he could mass his military forces against the troublesome Kurdish population in northern Iraq. Only five days later, Iraqi warplanes and helicopters dropped chemical weapons on villages throughout Iraqi Kurdistan.”
– Eds. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, The Iraq War Reader, Page 36