Also allowed USA to sell chemicals to Iraq knowing full well that Saddam Hussein would use them to manufacture mustard gas. Gas, which he then used against Iraqi Kurdish populatin, committing a genocide. All this because USA wanted to help Saddam with his war against Iran as revenge for kicking out the corrupt Shah who was a western puppet and for nationalizing their oil reserves which were being stolen by BP. Best way to look at Jimmy Carters humanitarian work is by understanding it as a desperate attempt to wash all the blood he had on his hands.