Who gave weapons to Saddam

This is a very nice picture of Ramsfield with Saddam. It shows them during the Iraq-Iran war in the eighties. This picture is something Ramsfield wish to forget about trying to conceal the chemical weapons deals that the American administration facilitated to Saddam. During the eighties Saddam was a very close friend to the US but when he came out of the first Gulf war with a strong army that pose a threat to Israel they decided eliminate him and make an example out of him to the other Arabs leaders.