 Complete the following phrase:  In 1966, the original Baath Party was split in half; one half was led by the Damascus leadership of the Baath Party which established a party in Syria and the other half with its leadership in Baghdad. The two Baath parties retained the same name and maintained parallel structures in the Arab world, but relations became so antagonistic that Syria became the only Arab state to support Iran against Iraq during the bloody IranIraq War; it also joined the U.S.-led coalition against Iraq in the Gulf War. The Baathists 