During the 1980's, there was a prolonged war between Iraq and Iran. The war was fought for many reasons, but primarily over each country's greed for one another's oil. Eventually, this led to the US's launching of "Operation Staunch". This was a US policy passed by the Reagan Administration to prevent all arms and ammunition sales to Iran or Iraq from the United States. When the US was forced to break its policy in order to save the lives of US hostages being held by Iraq, US feelings towards Iraq began to turn negative. This scandal became known as the Iraq-Contra Affair and received…
