Fighting begins in 1980 between Iraq and Iran; men shoot guns/ explosions; missiles fired. </p> 1984 dead soldiers. Iranian refugee speaks. More shots of dead soldiers. Injured soldier cries in hospital. Iraq uses chemical weapons. Saddam Hussein. Map of Iraq and Iran. Shatt-al-Arab waterway. Racial protests. Hussein hugs Arafat. Oil analyst speaks about bitter rivalry between Iran and Iraq. Religious demonstrations. Photo of Ayatollah. Analyst says no one wants Iran to win war. Iran Hostages. Mideast terrorism. Shiite muslims protesting. Hussein waves from tank. People chanting. Map shows Iran and Iraq border. Cannon firing. Iraq TV shows Iran casualties. People chanting. Teenage boys in army (child soldiers). Ayatollah photos. Boy on tank. Woman interviewed about losing son in war. Fountain of Blood in Tehran. Aerials of tanks. Oil tanker. Oil moved to Jordan on Red Sea. People with gas masks. Little boy puts on gas mask. Mustard gas used in WWI (archival footage). Geneva Protocol signed (banning mustard gas). Kurds bombed. Map shows Kurdistan. A group of women in traditional Kurdish dress stand together. A Kurdish village littered with the bodies of animals and people after a chemical weapons attack by Iraqi forces. Village streets filled with dead bodies, a woman holding an infant, bodies of dead children. Iranian soldier interviewed. Camels in desert. Oil tanker. Saudi Oil minister speaks. US sells Saudis military jets. Burning oil field. </p> In 1987 US Navy spokesperson says that the do not recognize that Iraq is hostile. USS Stark hit by Iraqi war plane. Ship on fire. Map of Persian Gulf. Oil tankers. Oil tanker on fire. Dead carried out of ship. Reagan comments on attack. Iraqi foreign minister says that fighter pilot mistook Stark for Iranian ship. Saddam Hussein says attack was accidental. Iraqi Ambassador speaks. Top US officers found to be negligent. Press Secretary talks about acquiring more ships. Helicopters. Man talks about US becoming ally of Iraq.

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