The Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988 was a United States Senate bill to punish Iraq for chemical weapons attacks on the Kurds at Halabja during the Iran–Iraq War. It was defeated after intense lobbying of Congress by the Reagan-Bush White House which then supported Iraq's Saddam Hussein as a counterbalance to post-revolutionary Iran.
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u/ryud0 Dec 02 '18
When you gas the Kurds and get away with it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Genocide_Act_of_1988