Early Day Motions on Iraq Copies of Early Day Motions (EDMs) submitted to the House of Commons about human rights in Iraq including the use of chemical weapons, the attack on Halabja, and the UK government's selling arms to Iraq (dated 1986-1992). Some of this information was used in a New Statesman article ('Mark Thomas wonders if Saddam's men recycle paper', New Statesman, 9 December 2002). 1986-2005