Iraq War 2003 Explained - Why Bush and Blair Attacked Iraq
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2023
- On the 20th March 2003, the US, UK, Australia and Poland launched a contraversial invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. This video will explore, without justification or criticism, the road to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It is for the viewer to make their own judgement based on the evidence presented.
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It is a real shame that you have to censor documentaries so heavily. Especially when the content is objective and carefully researched as possible
And it still is demonetized.
I don't know if this is RUclips trying not to piss off easily triggered people with "sensitive topics" or they out to control narratives. Either way, censorship has no place in democratic societies!!!
But if you are a late night TV host you can sit there all night spewing your left wing lies with no consequences.
RUclips loves ad money more than not censoring history. It all started when Google bought them.
Diversity means different groups each with their own narratives fighting each other for supremacy. As such, the Diversity regime wants to keep everyone distracted with cats and swimsuits.
This was my war, I've been waiting for this video for a while
Edit: The fact that you have to censor yourself when discussing actual historical events is ridiculous
When the government does it it violates our rights. When a private company larger than any public utility does it.... Please agree to the new terms and conditions, this is for your safety.
@@capttuttle7422 If you think not paying somebody (on a free to use plattform) is censorship you should really rethink what censorship means.
It is ridiculous however it's not like RUclips is actively trying to purge all mention of 9/11 from the platform. It's avoiding the hassle of demonization caused by computer error.
"When a private company larger than any public utility does it.... Please agree to the new terms and conditions, this is for your safety" Is this sarcasm...or what?@@capttuttle7422
@@capttuttle7422not for your safety, for their advertisers. Being a private company changes everything.
We can’t even mention the 2001 nine - 11 event on RUclips, is a dystopian idea.
It’s cracked that most history of the last 20+ years faces RUclips suppression. Or call it “censorship-lite”. Less calories and less relevance, shittier flavor.
Thats why their patreon is so important. They're able to post videos there that would be demonitized or censored on youtube. I'm not affiliated with the channel but I am part of their patreon. Its worth it.
@@e.lake13are there videos on Patreon that aren’t on RUclips?
I could only imagine why 🤷♀️
Oh wait
Censoring history, shows you are not a good guy!
Nothing makes me feel old like an event that happened while I was starting University being analyzed by a military history channel.
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Time waits for nobody.
I was in Arabic classes in '03 in the Air Force to be a translator... We all watched CNN covering the unfolding war and knew things were about to get interesting for us in the worst way. The next years were spent trying to bring down the various insurgencies that sprouted like mushrooms after Saddam fell. So much needless suffering by the Iraqi people. My heart goes out to all those affected
I was in high school, so I’m not far behind you😂
As a Millennial American, I vividly remember "Event A" and the rush to strike back at someone, anyone, responsible. It was only later we realized the horrible mistakes we made due to fear, haste, and the Bush administration's mishandling of intel.
Great work on this video, guys. I'd say it's a must watch for anyone trying to understand post-Cold War US foreign policy.
Whole heartedly agree.
Whatever, the guy getting clapped was overdue.
Yep. The best way I can describe it to zoomers is we just went full "brown people bad, kill brown people". They'll never (hopefully) understand WHY we felt that way, but that's basically what it was.
Without providing any evidence of my own, I will assert that the words "mistakes" and "mishandled" incorrectly imply that it was unintentional.
@@anthropomorphicself-loathi4495 Totally fair. I'll say, I don't think the vast majority of the American people wanted war with Iraq specifically. We wanted a fight, for sure, and we listened to Bush when he told us Iraq was the right enemy.
One of the most devastatingly disasterous foreign policy decisions ever made in the US. Thank you for shedding more light on this critical topic.
“He tried to kill my daddy”
Geo. W. Bush
That’s why the US went to war. Weak but understandable. Why the Brits came along for the ride is far less understandable.
@@CorePathway Understandable pre-1800 maybe, but for a modern politician to throw away the lives of the citizens for a personal matter is to have flagrant disregard for the station and the people.
@@CorePathwaybecause the Brit’s have our backs like we do theirs
@@CorePathway that's a common insight by the uneducated. Hussein had been a threat to US servicemen for 12 years as we tried to protect Iraq's neighbors and then created a no-fly zone to protect Kurds and Shia from being gassed and ethnically cleansed. Clinton actually provided a bridge between the two gulf wars. He missed his chance to stop the 100,000's of deaths in Rwanda and the beginning of the Serbs atrocities in Yugoslavia. He later remedied that by helping Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq. In Iraq he created a no-fly zone to try to prevent Iraq from killing it's own Shia and Kurds which had risen up against him. In one year during Clinton supposedly 1800 bombs were dropped on Iraq in response to Iraq targeting US pilots. When Bush came into office he inherited a military which was undertrained but had extensive obligations - including flying over Iraq. It's normal to review military plans against your most likely adversaries and since Iraq caused military conflict between the last two Presidents you would be stupid not to update the plans to take into account new geopolitical balances.
@@ryanlopez1050 Exactly. To the bitter end we will stand side by side
I was a child during this period of history, and I remember how pervasive the subjects of terrorism, Al-Qaeda, Iraq, and WMDs were at the time, even to a >10 year old. It dominated the TV news my parents watched, it was on Time magazine covers in the doctor’s office waiting room, and even among the kids at elementary school. Our 3rd grade teacher held pretty frank class discussions about potential human costs of the imminent war shortly before the operation kicked off.
Everyone was absolutely convinced by the messaging that Saddam was connected to Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. We all thought Iraq was simply another front in the war against the same people who attacked us in 2001. But I also recall that it quickly became apparent just how flimsy the Bush administration’s justification for the war was, within a year or two after the invasion it was obvious that we had really stepped in it and for no good reason.
I would write there was a good reason but they did lie to the public, not as such about whether there were weapons but that the intelligence was sound.
@@johnnotrealname8168But there wasn’t any weapons. The only ones claiming there were had very specific motives for doing so, and in the end have all come out and admittied they themselves were lied to or actively lied themselves.
@beaurrakbeaubama8962 There were no weapons but they did think there were weapons. They believed it but manipulated the evidence when presenting it to the public.
@@beaurrakbeaubama8962to be fair, Iraq DID have WMDs just not at this point, they did gas the Kurds and the Iranians. The speculation was founded. Invading, not so much
Actually, it was pretty obvious at the time that the evidence was flimsy. You just had to read the reporting of a decent newspaper. My whole family was demonstrating against Bush's march to war in NY around that time. Republicans bought it hook line and sinker though. Very similar to how they buy into Trump, despite overwhelming evidence that he is a crook and very dangerous for the country being widely available even before the 2016 election.
"All we are saying, is give war a chance."
damn, aint that right.....
Would be a great yoko ono song
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Man watching this sucks with how much it affected me and a lot of my close bros on the ground. In a hindsight it really was a "WTF were we doing here instead of finding Bin Laden."
In hindsight, it’s evident that Bush is arguably a war criminal.
We all got GOT… and 22 years later, American citizens are *_STILL_* getting strip searched to get an airplane.
The only good explanation I’ve heard from someone who was in intelligence is that Iraq was invaded to create an easier battlefield. Killing foreign terrorists in Iraq was hard but it was nothing compared to tracking down al Qaida in Afghanistan. Plus Saddam would get taken out and the oil companies got to plunder his oil.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:10 Gulf War
0:08:18 Saddam's Recovery
0:14:21 *Deciding on war*
0:23:58 *Britain joins*
0:31:24 *Selling the war*
0:43:35 *The UN*
0:54:25 *Oil*
0:57:51 *Was the invasion legal?*
1:02:37 End screen
(@The Intel Report: Feel free to paste these timestamps at the end of the video description to get navigable video chapters. No need to give me attribution. Thanks for making these excellent documentaries!)
This is an excellent documentary on the details & events leading to the 2003 conflict. It's exceeding rare that anyone goes into the step by step events that lead to it, I know it takes a hell of a lot of work to get all this info. Thank you for your work.
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Was pretty good except at the end when said the 3 countries special forces were in Iraq ready to hit targets but did not start until the opening of the war.
Australia SASR were already hitting key targets on the 18th.
Americans: "Never forget!"
RUclips: "We dont do that here."
Please forget
Isn't RUclips an American based company? I'm triggered af. Didn't make it passed the first sentence of this video without having to hit the comment section.
Welcome to the Republican vision of the free market.
You mean we have been lied to again? So what else is new?
Event A had such a massive impact on global history. Someone should make a video on it.
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Pesants don't get to talk about some things. They might get ideas.
Is this all about 9/11 this not allowed to talk about it on RUclips is about? Cause there are hundreds of videos about it on RUclips. So that doesn't make sense. Maybe the WMD's, or rather the lack of...
@@randommadness1021 you can talk about it, just don't expect monetization.
@@randommadness1021 Yeah, as someone said above, you technically can talk about 9/11, but your vid will get demonetized *which also means* that it's gonna get buried by the algorythm and not recommended to people. So even when you take sponsorships, well ,your sponsors won't be happy about your vid making a quarter of the views...
Did you actually use a picture of Hans Blix as featured in Team America? You absolute legend!
Well dam! One hour and two minutes of some of the most impressive attention to detail it has been my pleasure to watch and learn from! Thank you to the people at 'The Intel Report', who put so much hard work into this video! Can see why you decided to not to do this in parts!
I remember clearly where I was when I heard the second plane hit the towers. I remember clearly where I was when I listed to George W announce the WMD justifications for the coming war. Much of what you covered I knew, some I did not, but you drew the information together clearly and without notable agenda. Well done. I hope everyone who views it learns its lessons well.
youre so cool, like wow
@@nutsackmaniaretardation?
Thanks for working on this. Too bad that event A is so taboo even over 20 years later
Since when has Event A become so controversial? Why is it being treated as China's Event B, why can't we talk about it on RUclips after 20 years? I remember the whole internet being filled with edgy content about the event, and no one complained.
You can talk about, but you won't get monetized since advertisers will never want to be associated with it. And since ops room puts massive effort into their videos they'd rather use a term that can still leave them monetized and everyone will know what it is.
@@leubzo1436yeah it’s such a shame. actively disincentivizes educational historical content. I wish they had a special “historical/educational” setting to monetize things like this, it’s so important. Imagine leaving Event A out of a textbook.
@@KannabisMajorisIf you feel so strongly about it _you_ should arrange to have it monetized. Waiting for others to do it will go nowhere.
lol this video is a remedial history of the lead up to the iraq war--to say they invested massive efforts to string a bunch of b roll and rote historical commentary is ridiculous
@@mbryson2899 Arrange it how? The Adpocalypse was caused by mainstream media portraying RUclips as the place to train terrorists and make money doing it. Brands pulled advertising as a response. Are you stronger than a media smear campaign?
I remember when Jean Chretien said there wasn't enough evidence of WMD to warrant an attack. He faced some criticism here in Canada, but he was right. I'm glad he didn't send out troops. This war divided resources between iraq and afghanistan, they should've concentrated on one objective.
Keith Woods - Architects of Iraq war...
They were trying to convince themselves that the weapons existed. You get the sinking feeling that it was never really about WMDs.
we still went to afghanistan. and i assume there were canadians in iraq as well, even if only jtf2. but ya iraq was a nutty play by the us. hard to believe it worked, but hardly surprising they made it happen when you look at what geo politics is all about.
@@LargeAndRobustPeter Canadian ground forces were never deployed into Iraq but it did send some pilots to "season" them (transports and patrol craft) and some ships to patrol the coast. Not a lot, only around 50 was estimated to have ever travelled to Iraq from the CAF.
@@mosesracal6758 Makes sense. They musta seasoned jtf 2 though... :D
Ya, in hindsight I somewhat to largely regret not contributing to the finding of Osama/whatever other benefits medical or otherwise may have arisen from occupying afghanistan. Certainly the taliban are not great stewards for young women - but I have a feeling when you go to another place and kill people it doesn't actually help the situation overall. Maybe it's better now, I don't know. Maybe the Taliban have cooled off what they would have otherwise become had no mass intervention occurred. I don't know enough.
The visual at 44.44 is the hardest I’ve laughed in months - well done 😂😂😂
As a historian, this is really one of the best summations of events I have seen with regards to the conflict and the build-up that preceded it
An entire hour?? what a treat! Love your voice overs, great vid, thanks!!
So in depth and encompassing video. Very well done
At 3:25 you say "United States Security Council" lol.
P.S. Love your WW2 Pacific Series
Freudian? XD
@@TheIntelReport Your anti-America bias is obvious. You should just admit to it, rather than try to come off as neutral.
@@Defossion1 lol what anti-American bias cause just retelling of the course of events leading to the war in Iraq? Funny I see more comments stating it’s more pro-America with so many coverage of World War Two, Vietnam WarCold War, Gulf war and its allies combat reports. Why you support the war in Iraq or something, you can’t be this dense
@@Defossion1Obvious troll is obvious
@@rick7424Your anti-Troll bias is obvious. You should just admit it, rather than come off as neutral.
This should go over well, thanks for covering this.
An absolutely fascinating video can’t wait to see more of the series
This analysis and overall summary was extremely well done. Easy to follow, in chronological form, without dramatization.
It's so refreshing to see a breakdown of the origins of this war without basing it on the political shouting match and conspiracies that usually surrounds it. It's grounded, sober, and fairly apolitical; that's why I love your content.
As a 5th grader in the greater New York area for Event A I absolutely supported the hunt for person A. However even two years later I was like ‘why are we going after Saddam? It was 100% person A. Saddam is a bad dude, sure but eh?”
If only more people had that reaction.
I seem to recall a lot of people felt that way- anti-war protests were being compared to Vietnam-era protests on NPR: it was a very unpopular war, and the people against it made the brilliant choice of using "support our troops", intended to counter protests, as their own message- as an NCIS episode at the time said: (that's right, even your grandma's favorite cop show got in on it) "You don't support the war?" "No, I support the men fighting it."
rbro remember when they CALLED OFF the search? They openly stopped looking in 06. Classic case of mission creep the entire episode. If we HAD to attack someone why the crippled Iraqis? North Korea WAS making nukes - it blew the first in 06 and first thermonuclear in 2016.. Indeed Id say Saddam and Gaddafi have convinced strongmen of the world that nuikes and WMDs are the only true protection
saddam attacked kuwait
That was in the early 1990s this was the second invasion of Iraq in 2003 do some research ffs 🤦🏻♂️
@@user-ou9qd9no5nyeah, in 1990/91. An invasion to oppose that 12 years later is way beyond any statute of limitation I’ve ever seen.
Impeccable narration as always. Hats off for your unbiased cover of such a sensitive matter.
Stellar documentary sir, thanks for all the hard work you put into researching and making this documentary.
My father is a veteran of the 1991 gulf war. I often ask him about his experiences during both his time in Iraq as well as Bosnia and South Korea. I’ve never met a person more honest than him, and I’m very proud to have him as my father
As a Bosnian, I would really like to hear his opinion on the war.
My father and mother were both sent to Bosnia while in the Army. They said it was a beautiful country plagued by war. They were both Military Police trying to keep the peace.@@user-ue4nq3kc3j
This was incredible, the level of detail included was on par with any high budget documentary. I was pretty privy on the details of the Iraq war and invasion but never on the government bureaucracy behind the scenes that this video opened my eyes up to.
I have so many questions for follow ups, would you consider a live QA at any point?
are you on drugs or just a fanboy
Thorough research and a well presented documentary. One correction: James Baker, not Barker.
Fantastic work! Thank you for your effort.
The most comprehensive explanation of this subject. Thanks!
that cut away to the Team America character was absolute gold
I like the way you chose to handle the controversial subject matter. I've never seen anyone do it quite that way and this method made it easy to follow and to understand without getting yourself demonetized hopefull.
Great Video, Tranks for all the erffort your putting into this.
This all went down when I was just starting high school. History hits different when you lived through it. Fantastic breakdown of events, thank you!
Timestamp 44:47 made me fall out. You know how busy I am?! 😂
Thanks for this nugget of funny in a otherwise serious topic
You guys are the best at what you do! And second place is a long way from even making it close
Love the long form content!!!!
Phenomenally informative. Thank you
It goes back to George Kennan's Long Telegram in 1946. The U.S. does not necessarily need the oil from the Mideast for itself - but controlling other countries' access to the oil is crucial to maintaining global hegemony
where can i see the source? Im interested
holy crap someone invoking kennan--a comment that actually expands the discussion
44:47 got a good laugh out of me. great video as always guys, love these deep dives
Wow! Thanks for an entire hour video!
I know this one will be controversial, looking forward to how you guys approach this debacle
*Debacle.
Just trying to help, I’m not trying to criticize.
Amazes me what you can and cannot talk about on pootube!
@@krismorganit’s lunacy. Even worse, RUclips refuses to spell out the limitations. The justification is that people might “game the system” if they knew for sure what was and wasn’t acceptable. Catch-22.
@@MarcosElMalo2 People will just game it anyway. Hence "Event A", "Person A", etc.
@@colinmarshall6634100%. Porn and scam ads, and videos, litter this site.
44:43 You absolute legends lol.
Hans Brix?? HANS BRIX?!
This is fantastic. 🙂
The only quibbles i have is the pronunciation of Baker as Bah-ker (🤣) and referring to George Walker Bush as junior, something only his many political enemies used as that's not in his name. 😋
A great video of a somewhat paranoid country looking to lash out at perceived threats and people taking advantage of that. The bit where decision makers didn't trust the usual providers of intelligence due to their perceived failure to prevent "event A" is disappointing and worrisome as the shenanigans in the decisions during the push for war showed.🤨
I'm glad this channel exists and look forward to more from it. 👍🏻
George Bush Jr is his default moniker in the UK.
Nice profile pic
Brilliant documentary 👏 love your channels
Incredible videos as always!!
Waw this documentary must have taken some serious amount of work, I hope it gets the views and interest it deserves, for the ordinary guy its difficult to know how fishy all this was but its pretty clear there was little in the way of honesty involved. Every day it seems that RUclips appears to manipulate its allowed content more, as I remember it was once a pretty free and open plateform that has changed, its time to find another any recommendations, as a long time fan of youtube my patience is running out. Regardless Intel Report you have moved the bar up a few notch's on this one very well done and thank you.
44:44 the definitive Hans Blix. Well done!
Amazing doc! I need to point out that I listened to the whole thing without watching because I was at work. But when you mentioned Hans Blix, I had to turn it on to see what he actually looked like. That’s because the only image I have of him is from Team America World Police.
I was absolutely delighted that you used his TAWP puppet form in the doc as well though!! A+ for that
Video-A is really good. Keep up the great work Channel-A! lol
I fought in this war I look forward to what you have put together I also remember all the events you will talk about I really hope you tube lets you cover this topic without censoring you to much
I always remember my dad telling me about his time in the Gulf in 91 while he was in the British army. Nothing military specific, but about the heat, the size of the scarab beetles etc. It’s so strange to think that that was over 30 years ago now and another war there was looming just over a decade after. That too I remember coming home from school and watching the conflict play out on the six o’clock news and to think it was 20 years ago boggles the mind
really great analysis!
Thanks. I learnt a lot more than I thought I already knew.
It a shame that “Event A” has to be censored by RUclips and they think it’s “promoting violence” when it actually only used for educational purposes. Classic RUclips these days
The reason why is because this sort of thing is done by a computer. The computer cannot differentiate between joking versus educational content regarding "Event A" or any other kind of potentially triggering content. Ultimately it would be better for individual people to review this stuff however that would involve hiring more people, which companies like RUclips are not willing to countenance because that disrupts their profit margins.
@@taiwandxt6493Exactly
9/11 9/11 9/11
Come get me RUclips
@@taiwandxt6493 And youtube is already a massive loss for google.
event a is 9/11
All these many years later, and despite excellent reporting like this we still don’t really know why Bush & co. wanted this war (was it greed for oil? geopolitics? a personal vendetta? political calculation?). But it was clear at the time to anyone paying attention and exercising basic critical thinking that the WMD argument and the 9/11 argument were bogus, that the whole affair was a stitch-up. In the U.S. there was a large, articulate, broad-based, cross-partisan movement to halt the march to war. Even then the consequences of the war were predictable and predicted: not only the obvious loss of life and treasure, and regional destabilization, but also the loss of U.S. stature in the world community. By now we have thoroughly squandered the goodwill built up since WWII. Today supporters of Putin’s war in Ukraine shrug off the world’s moral outrage by pointing to Iraq. “Pushing around smaller countries is just what superpowers do.”
a big part of it was 1. they believed US made the wrong choice leaving Saddam in Power after the Gulf War
2. The US occupation of Germany and Japan led to them being economically successful US ally's and that all it took was American military power and economic power to make that happen.
(Ignoring that both countries had major interests in co-operating with the US since they were both afraid of the USSR.)
3. Bush had personal interest in getting Saddam since he tried to Kill Bush Sr.
On paper the Invasion made perfect sense- Iraq was a secular dictatorship.
Iraq had vast amounts of oil but could not sell that oil due to being under sanctions.
Invade- remove the dictator- use the oil to finance rebuilding the country and make Iraq a democracy.
People think the US is just cynical and it would just be neo-colonialism but from Bush's perspective (and many neo-con boomers) the US was the key to making Japan and Germany what they are today. (this flawed thinking ignores that both countries were industrialized and well educated with strong national status) (Iraq by comparison is not industrialized, not united and not particularly well educated)
@@MrChickennugget360 you almost seem to excuse a killing of millions and déstabilisation of a country with pure lies on paper by saying there was a genuine intent to help the country. It's garbage.
Iraq was educated. It may not have been as industrial as the other two but it had a high literacy and much life, modern architecture and so on. It just had been under an oppressive dictatorship and instead of re building the country with the oil. Or just leaving it be since it had nothing... NOTHING to do with the lies
It just created a lot theives in the chaos. For nothing. You somehow mentioned a vendetta over an attempted assassination... How can that excuse a country's invasion? Is this a play ground?
@MrChickennugget360 you've based all that on Japan. Also when did Saddam try to kill Bush?
Also to note do you know what the baath party beliefs are? They want all Arabs to unite, that wouldn't be good for the US
I cannot overstate my excitement when I saw that you had uploaded a new video and you certainly did not disappoint.
I habe always been fascinated by this conflict, because the justification for it was always just so enigmatic to me. You did a wonderful job explaining it.
I really enjoyed this content good job
An hour long intel report video 🎉👍 great job guys keep up the good work 😎☮️
i don't think it's necessary to put an animated film grain effect over this video - not only because many of these images are static but because this was one of the first wars in which much of this footage was digital to begin with. I understand it's an aesthetic choice but it made more sense for videos about earlier actions.
jesus one hour cant wait thanks !
Good stuff. You should do more about conflicts of the 21st century.
Thank you operations room
You did a very good job at staying consistent neutral
Great video as always
Love this content
0:18 In the US we only have one "Secretary of State" at the federal level, who leads the Department of State and is equivalent of a Minister of Foreign Affairs. The titles are "Secretary of Department" and that is all. This is an official title and not a short form. Short forms of these titles become acronyms or abbreviations. POTUS would be an example of an acronym for President of the United States or SECDEF for Secretary of Defense.
Edit: I did fail to mention the exception to "Secretary of Department" which exist with the Attorney General who heads the Department of Justice
58:41 The most ridiculous thing I remember was French fries being renamed Freedom Fries in the US Congressional Dining Room, when France wouldn’t go along with the nonsense. Similarly, this is where we got the ridiculously named Ford Freestar minivan
it wasn't nonsense, saddam was bad and even if he didn't have wmd he wanted to do harm to us and eventually would have. it was the right thing to do, and renaming freedom fries to freedom fries was and still is the right choice
i do this whenever i go out i still ask for a side of freedom fries
@@007kingifritwhat's next, will you ask for a Ukrainian salad instead of a Russian one?
You know that's bs, you are just making a fool of yourself.
@@Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ i have just one comment, wtf is a salad?
Statue: hold my liberty
@@007kingifrit you don't know what a salad is?
OPS/INTEL YOU KNOW IM HERE MY BROTHER! LOCKED IN FOR THE HOUR! WILL UPDATE WHEN FINISHED! This is MY WAR!
Another fantastic video my friend. Maybe an episode on Tora Bora to go along with this.✌️🇺🇲
I saw a video recently about the collapse of the towers from a physics perspective, and they didn't have to censor anything during the whole video. They were able to give an almost play by play of the aircraft and what was happening to the structures. It seems that historical content is being singled out heavily in this regard.
I was dead-seriously watching this video. I remember these shenanigans at the time and all of my anxious memories were flooding over me like it was happening in real-time. Then 44:44 happened. I almost fell off my chair. Thanks for that moment, it helped relieve the tension. LOL
The coffee cup design at 28:56 gives me some real nostalgia
great video as always but am I seeing things or are there mouse trails everywhere on some of the videos?
Regarding "Hope for a diplomatic solution" in early 2003. In the opinion of someone deployed in early January 2003 it was already too late. As we got our forces in place all we heard on the news was "give the UN inspectors time to do their jobs" but it only sounded like "we still haven't' got everything in place yet" to many of us. When Turkey backed out last minute as a staging ground for a multiprong attack we had to buy about another month of time to make adjustments, so more "give the UN inspectors time". Funny how we (US Government) felt like the inspectors already had enough time once we were all staged and ready.
Yeah I was there, watching the news we knew it was already planned to happen.
I was staged in Kuwait in late January or early February 2003. Way too late to backout then.
It’s crazy how accurate Dave Chappelle’s skit ‘Black Bush’ was
Nicely done!
This is simply the best documentary about the lead up to the Iraq war i have seen. Thank you.
I would have liked some more on Australia's Cassus Belli (and Poland's?) But this was an excellent video that shows the path to war as neutrally as possible. Well worth the watch.
Poland went in because they wanted to show their stuff to NATO and knew the Americans would owe them a favor later.
Australia went in because...well, because they were good blokes.
because we in the west are all Americas puppets, and facilitate its evil
@@MM22966literally even post Soviet and satellite states went to join the war in Iraq to get cozy up with the US, practically almost all of them except Belarus, Armenia, and Azerbaijan
Poland literally went into the Iraq war to suck american dick and show how good of a pet they are.
Its ironic that the first forein military deploymeant an independent Poland did as part of NATo was an illegal invasion.
After reading Thomas E Ricks' book "Fiasco" and watching this, I've concluded that trying to understand how the Iraq war started is even harder than understand how WWI started.
Kudos on a well-researched, objective recounting of the events which defined our current era. I'm especially pleased that you included information on the Project for a New American Century and its founders' role on promoting the neoconservative pro-hegemonic foreign policy that the U.S. adopted after the end of the Cold War.
The Team America screenshot of Hans Blicks really cracked me up and I am surprised that no one seems to have spotted that screenshot's origin
I was in the British army at the time, I remember going down to our canteen at the workshop to try and find someone, and everyone was in there watching the TV and I went in a few minutes before the 2nd plane hit and I turned to one of the Corporals and said "What movie's this?" Thinking it was some hookie movie being played on the video player. One of the Sgt's said "fucking typical, we're ready to go one exercise, which means we can be deployed."
I wasn't deployed out there with that Regiment but I did go out there in 2004 with another unit and it was...spicy.
This was a great video, using the facts and details without an agenda or anything, superb stuff.
What is it that RUclips doesn't let you talk about in videos? Heard that twice recently on this channel. Thank, to anyone who can answer this. 🙂👍
The 9/11 attacks, and as well as other mentions of specific events of terrorism. RUclips's filter is done by a computer, in which a closed framework just finds whatever mentions said triggering topics on the site and gives it the demonetization hammer. It just uses key words to differentiate what is okay versus what isn't. The computer algorithm cannot differentiate between actual offensive content versus educational content.
Whoever replied, thanks. If you never deleted it yourself, then the RUclips Nazis got to it.
RUclips first and foremost is an entertainment platform and that’s how RUclips runs it, it’s used for politics and history, but these things are considered controversial, subject to “misinformation” and aren’t family friendly. You will get demonetised for swearing, let alone discussing terrorism and wars.
@@luck3yp0rk93 That is utterly balls for the creators and will likely push them more and more towards Patreon. Stupid idea.
Amazing work.
I love this channel ❤
This summary of the Iraq war's background is exactly the type of content I've been waiting for the last 20 years.
I served in the 90's and not the 2000's thankfully but it's something I'll always remember. I can't say I ever felt the country at the receiving end of "Event A" was a direct threat to the U.S. but once we had troops on the ground committed to the fight, I advocated my support for their effort. I generally felt efforts to defund them while they were engaged was politically motivated vs. being sound strategy. In hindsight, I see "Event A" for the folly that it was. Afghanistan was somewhat more excusable given 9/11 but in hindsight, we perhaps should've relied on espionage and special forces to track Osama bin Laden and kill him vs. the occupation. The fall of Afghanistan has shattered my already waning faith in so-called regime change. In no small part, I think the fall of Afghanistan and the overall mixed results of the GWOT is why recruiting is struggling so much for the military now. There is a whole generation of GWOT vets telling their kids not to join because they see their service and their sacrifice be squandered if not outright wasted. Hell, some of the Marines who died at the Kabul airport during the withdrawal weren't even born yet when 9/11 happened. The waste in blood and treasure during the GWOT/regime change efforts has shifted my views on pretty much any military aid in foreign conflicts.
Yeah, I know my rant wondered into other conflicts but they're generally considered part of the overall same effort.
Event A is 9/11
@@Conradlovesjoy Ah, for some reason I thought that was code for the GWOT. I'm still in a food coma from eating leftovers. Total brain fart on my part.
This country isn't worth defending anymore. No one wants to die for Israel or to defend BLM and LGBTQ horseshit
Great points. I absolutely agree with your strategy on hunting OBL. CIA infiltration, drones, and money could have still got the job done.
You know the real reason it failed. The single most basic rule and highlighted by Clausezwitz War is a means to an end. For Iraq the entire war was built on falsehoods.
For me Afghanistan failed because the western governments we were propping up a completely rotten political system in Afghanistan. Corruption was prominent at every single level. The military did a good job during certain periods of the war to defeat the taliban but there was no real political stability across the country it was all a facade. Then add the fact Pakistain basically haboured the Taliban next door without fear of reprisal it was never a winable war.
Iraq was even worse there was simply no means to the end and as a result the military paid for that with blood.
My dad was a 23 year veteran with 4 tours of duty in the british army and he always told me war is pointless in most cases, especially in the modern era where we dont really have WWII style "good guys" and "bad guys".
and so it begins...
this will be a great series.
Outstanding report!
It's interesting. I remember my mother telling me how on television it was strange seeing Osama then two years later to Saddam. Here, my mother and many others were skeptical of Bush's intentions towards Iraq. My mother supported the conflict against Osama in Afghanistan but for Iraq she was strongly against it. She told me, "If we invade Iraq, we'll get stuck like another Vietnam." Crazy times. And three days later after the US invaded Iraq, I was born. Only 20 years ago.
Thank you for corroborating what I remember from the immediate lead up to this quagmire. For a while now I've been feeling like I had not remembered events and information correctly. Further, thank you for the additional information about activities through the 1990s since I was a child at that time. Saddam was a pest and needed to be gone, but an invasion was unnecessary when we had the ability to park a Mark 84 in any of his palaces at any time.
Problem is, we tried that many times, and never got him.
Plus, the regime wouldn't fall just because he did, and his kids might have actually been worse overall.
ooooo. Im going to need to save this to watch on my TV.
I love the explanation for this is one of the longest