How Iraqis Got So Good At Smoking American Soldiers
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You gotta love how Americans and Israelis have this amazing way of making anyone defending themselves seem like the bad guy.
Yeah as an American I’m sorry only a few wars in recent history that we have been involved in were justified pretty much any middle eastern one wasn’t especially Iraq I’m sorry brother sometimes I’m truly ashamed to be American
@@lilgravy2651 Middle Eastern ppl behave like animals in europe.
@@Rush47.prove it.
@@phzitos_ wdym prove it ? go to europe lmfao
amazing how this video barely mentioned the israeli connection
Being an American is like being the child of a Mob boss, you don't really know what your Dad does only that he provides for you, then you're shocked when someone throws a bomb through your living room window.
Speak for yourself
@@softdrink-0 you right he should have said specifically self-aware Americans
except your dad is a deadbeat for 364 days out of the year, and the 1 day he stops by he beats you
the Americas were occupied and founded by alien foreigners working for the king and queen along with the jesus from the other side of earth, no bigger mobsters back then.
@@softdrink-0 Damn Xmed got yo ass lmao
as an Iraqi, I'm surprised there are Americans who started to say the truth , May you be safe and Unharmed
Most of the stuff I was taught were either misinformation or talked about rarely or even not talked. I really want to help your country in the future, but I want to commit to my dream job. I hope your country gets better every day
بغداد يا قلعة الأسود
Oh, we now know Bush was a piece of shit, Bush lied to us and has Iraqi and American blood on his hands, he lied to us, he fucking lied and killed both sides
@@zuzhifreezone4851 May Allah bless you and every human who seeks good
@@Faith_Through_Struggle last time I checked this so called evil devilish america isn’t committing human rights violations and using chemical weapons on kurds
And then they ask where are these terrorists coming from?
You created them by making their lives a living hell
Then maybe don’t rape, murder, torture, and starve innocent people and the US won’t have to intervene?!?
@@yungma3841lol those what Americans did in veitnam, bosnia and middle east they brought convicts to be in war
They did not create them because those were not terrorists. The terrorists are the american military. period.
No one would ever agree with this because we know who controls the media
They need to stop calling others that and look in the mirror
how to fight an insurgency: don’t give the people a reason to create a fucking insurgency
LMAO, thats what i was thinking throught the video, what the fuck were they thinking...
Shut it anqueefa
You do realize that the Muslim extremist groups we fought in Iraq existed well before we showed up right? The entire region has always been a warzone since the first caliphate.
And that's why you created a blood debt and paid by IED biscuits
@@McKae00 Good
I joined the Army at 18 in 2007.
My mentality and outlook of the world after I graduated boot camp and AIT was, in hindsight, based completely on lies, propaganda, and indoctrination. I believed I was doing the right thing, believed I was honoring my country, and fighting for a higher purpose.
As I grow older and understand the power dynamics and political agendas, etc, more clearly, it’s obvious i and my friends were merely a means for certain institutions and individuals to acquire more power and wealth.
My grandfather was a WW2 vet and I wanted to be like him, a hero, but I was never given a worthy cause, just a lie.
Back in 2005 I was a stereotypical American boy who was fiercely patriotic and believed in the idea we were told to believe America was - A Righteous and Just Nation of Liberty for all, so at the age of 17 I enlisted as an 11X shipped off to Benning. Right after OSIT I turned 18 and immediately upon signing into my new unit I was sent to RFI and off to Kuwait to play catch up with my unit who was already in Iraq. Between my 3 tours over there I can vividly recall turning 19, 21, and 22 because around each of those birthdays we lost some of our guys in various IED attacks and I was just utterly depressed over their loss and the idea of being alive for another birthday filled me with so much guilt that to this day it's unfathomable to me to even consider celebrating another one of my birthdays ever again. By the time I had turned 23 I was so hollow and dead inside by everything I had seen or done over the span of 6 years as an infantryman, that despite getting my E6, I elected to ETS.
It's been 12 years since I left Iraq for the last time and I still to this very day struggle to live with myself over what happened over there, and I blame myself entirely for it. We were lied to, yes, but I was the absolute fool that allowed myself to believe it.
I hope you're doing well and are able to find some semblance of peace after it all brother.
Your grandfather was lied to as well.
@@JoshuaRyanActual it is a shame there are thousands of veterans who would seethe and deny this fact to this day, many of which end up in law enforcement....
@@AVERAGEREVOLUTIONARY times really havent changed as much as we like to believe
That is the sad thing about wars. I believe that if it was just people by themselves making their own informed decisions, almost no one would actually want to invade another country. But there is always so many lies and so much propaganda, that makes people think an invasion is a good thing. No matter if it is about Vietnam, middle east, or currently Ukraine. It is always the same and it will always continue to be the same. Soldiers from the invading side are often brainwashed by propaganda or religion to think that what they are doing is a good thing, then they are sent to a different country to suffer and die for goals that aren't even true. Soldiers and civilians from the defending side mostly just want to keep their own country safe and intact, growing more desperate, vengeful, and cruel towards the attackers, the more they see the destruction brought upon them by the invaders. In the end there is only a big amount of people who are suffering and hurting each other in various ways for pretty much no reason other than to get revenge, and a small amount of people in political leadership who come to great fame and fortune if the war is won.
*bombs all water and electrical services, starves populations, tortures men *
“Why are they not welcoming us???”
will the US is doing it now but smarter thru RSF in Sudan and also in Niger
@@ko-Daeguconstant proxy wars will result in american civil war in the future. you just wait
USreal does the same exact thing. Same exact tactics….almost as if…..
Turning a pacific country into detroit
@@Sara_S1007they see that it works for us? Do you think there’s some obscure copyright on US military strategy? We do it the best so they adopted that with all the other stuff they get from us.
And yet they still call us "islam terrorrist"..u owe us america.
aisha was nine years old
i dont owe you shit, i wasnt the one over there fuckin shit up. youre literally mad that youre getting grouped into a box but then group all of america into a box. thats some dumb ass shit
@@KramiIion rebecca was 3 years old
@@KramiIion
These cheap diversions don't work anymore
The world has realized the stupidity of the american people
@cameronbrown9770 he dont wanna hear the facts😂
We were lied to as Americans. I was a teen when this happened. I knew something was bullshit about the Iraq war even then. My mother a veteran who was there when the Berlin Wall fell, would always tell me this war was bullshit and told me not to listen to recruiters.
Recruiters we're constantly coming to my school, pumping us up and telling us how important we would be for the war and protecting freedom. I tried to tell my friends this was bullshit, they didn't listen, they joined once we turned 18. Yes, they regret it now. Many are sorry for this. Thanks for having my back mom, I know speaking ill of your military was probably difficult but had to be done.
Her first loyalty was to her progeny, _not_ her old employer. Any half decent person wouldn’t have struggled to lead their loved ones away from death dealing deceivers. Sounds like a mature, switched-on, critical thinking chic your mum. I doubt she struggled for even one split second… 🫡
I think this war was for the better for Iraq, although the execution of the operation went bad
@@belluh-1huey102 and that "mistake" cost millions of lives. And America did nothing to correct it.
@@belluh-1huey102Troll
@zulu alpha cite the source of 1 million civilian deaths for me, and the origin of the source destroys your credibility. You also fail to note the sectarian violence going on in Iraq, which is the Shia Sunni divise and the Iraqi Civil War.
As shitty as Sadam was, he wasn't stupid.
He basically gave every person in Iraq the means to become an extremely capable insurgent, furthermore he released all the most dangerous prisoners. Thousands of people who are willing to kill and capable of convincing and grouping together hundreds of thousands more to join them.
He created the perfect environment to make occupation impossible even after his own death or capture.
Smartest comment I've seen in a while never thought of it like that
Funny now Russia is doing the same thing using criminals to fight in Ukraine. They’re usually at the front line, if they survive the war they’ll probably be back in prison. I would never trust the Russian Govt lol.
you live up to your name
Well, he had twenty years to prepare. He damn well knew the GCC was more than willing and capable of throwing the rest of OPEC under the bus to control petrodollar flow, watched the US burn Latin America to the ground under the facade of Cold War geopolitics, and (unlike the US) learned from Vietnam. While entirely justified, the Kuwait invasion was a hail mary pass to break GCC regional hegemony, and the writing was on the wall once the Saudis bought off the US to intervene. From there, it was only a matter of time (and consent manufacture) until the US returned to finish the job.
at the cost of his own people. that my friend is the definition of stupidity.
As an American, this is the first time I'm hearing of many of the less savory policies and practices of U.S. forces during the occupation. The unwarranted house raids, the mass detainments. Hardly a wonder so many over there resented our presence.
You'd be surprised Uncle Sam doesn't shy from using the same tactics on us time and again
@@squeaky206And over half the population in America is still blinded by the US propaganda
I highly recommend looking into Vietnam, basically it shouldn't of happened and the French should have been told to STFU.
America is quick to point out another country’s atrocities, while simultaneously hiding theirs behind their back.
"unwarranted house raids" every US's house raid outside of the US is unwarranted. Its not your country, just stay in your country
Dear Americans, stop sending your children to stupid wars.
Don't fault us fault our 'politicians' and 'government'
@@Gleebledeepleit's ur fault u were ready to be in arms and be in uniform to take out PPL in Iraq ,if u can do that u should be able to do that to ur politicians,it's not our duty to deal with ur f up .
@@Gleebledeeple Don't you have a democracy in which you vote people in? Also, your military is voluntary...
Noted.
And you wonder why recruitment meant is so low lol learn from history don’t go unless you have to
You know it's bad when even the CIA, the same guys that would sell off their moms for scraps go on and tell you that you're doing something wrong.
Yup
Yuhp. That's what I was thinking lol
The CIA are global terrorists
The CIA are basically hitmen for the elite
Even more rich when they were in on it but pass judgment 😂
Earning that CIA award for excellence in journalism
Oh no...RIP
Why?
@@lachlanthird5282 i think this could perhaps be a reference to the ''CIA kills journalists that delve in too deep'' thing, or perhaps it could be related to an ACTUAL award given to journalists that purposefully divide groups of people (for better government control), but i think its the first one
The CIA has produced material like this with their own funding. "controlled opposition".
Insinuating that this is video is a CIA psyop…prob is but who knows…
The Iraq war is the personification of "no one is more dangerous than someone with nothing to lose."
Also that delibrately disguising yourself as civilians is a tactic that is only ever glossed over despite how unimaginably fucked it is
@@unbearablysmug2437 It's not a disguise if the civilians also hate the enemy.
@@visoriannull832 uuuuuh yes it is? For starters it means that soldiers are more likely to kill inocent people instead of the insurgents, so just by engaging in that tactic they were condeming many of their own people to die
@@unbearablysmug2437
The resistance WAS civilians.
It was shopkeepers with no shop left to keep, and farmers with no farms.
@@danbeaulieu2130 so were the vietcong, and they had uniforms...
granted they also did the strategy of pretending to be civilians. But still.
This war pisses me off so bad. Also how fkn stupid people were to fall for all the cheap 5 minutes hate propaganda that flooded the idiot box.
This video is inaccurate as fuck
Lol which one? The one your government said where in the end your president lied not jsut once but multiple times about wmd? Also same in the Vietnam?
Got rid of the idiot box 15 years ago... I can highly recommend.
Leaving those weapon depots unguarded was not a mistake. It was a key step to ensure a profitable war that lasted 20 years
They wanted to destabilize the whole region so isreal could gooble up the West Bank and gGza without worrying about Arab tanks.
Damn and I thought Russia was bad
@@Mike-ku8mg you thought wrong
@@markosimic7969 He thought right but there's bad then there's baad
@@Mike-ku8mg You could put = between russia and usa, except usa is on much larger scale and is always let away with it...
"You've created a blood debt when you do that"
Heaviest sentence
I though the same 😢
Saying Iraq is a conservative society was redundant at that point. In any other society they gonna seek vengeance if you keep pulling that no knock warrant bs.
Iraq created a blood debt when they genocided Christians in the 19th and 20th century, repeatedly.
Hence the widespread satanism in the us today
There no sources and I cannot find a single paper which claims " Iraq was the lowest crime place on earth before the invasion". As far as the title "How Iraqis Got So Good At Smoking American Soldiers" I can only assume you meant how Iraqis got good at killing American Soldiers. U.S. soldier deaths were 7,000 all together from the start till 2019, I can only assume this is why he decided to never put a single number to America or allied causalities. I don't support the Iraq war but this clear political message which ignores facts to try to prove a point and send a message.
And that random quote from a random nobody at the end is just great, Michaels Ledeen 🤣. When when people "the one who made this video" thinks they are smart.
never underestimate the ability of someone trying to defend his home
they lost very quickly, that quote probably doesnt work well in this war atleast
@@unknownfinesse7487 Quick? The insurgency lasted 16+ years. From the moment Saddam lost power to ISIL. That's longer than WW1 & 2 combined.
Don't underestimate us arabs
@@unknownfinesse7487the Iraqi government/military fell quickly, that's it.
Apply that to everything, particularly immigrants coming to the US through the southern border. These people are literally trying to survive, they're desperate. Walls don't stop them, little stops them, but we largely still underestimate their will, and we don't understand why they do it, or that we would do the exact same thing if in that spot.
Society if america didnt dip their balls into the geopolitical deep fryer:
Always remember that no knock warrants and red flag laws allow law enforcement to essentially do this same thing to US citizens…
Especially the darker skinned and/or less financially well-off…
American ‘democracy,’ not worth the paper the constitution was written on. America is a nation of laws? Yeah, right, except when dealing with populations they don’t like.
They actually do that, the FBI recruited the Tsarnaev brothers for the extremist cause so they could arrest them. Bet the FBI cares dearly about the men who lost their legs at that explosion.
@@mychannel3774 America is a republic not a democracy. That being said this Government is corrupt and it’s law enforcement is only used as a buffer between the rich and the poor.
Fascism is the tactics of imperialism brought back home
I'm 56 years old and haven't been "No knock" warranted in my life. No one I know has been. Must be something you're doing.
I remember I questioned the Iraqi war in one of my college classes back in 2012. The professor who was a patriot went full on me trying to embarrass me any way he could in front of the whole class. Luckily we had an Iraqi war veteran sitting in the same class who shut the professor down and agreed with me that U.S. involvement was wrong. You'd be surprised how many military personnel that served in Iraq turned against U.S. government and U.S. military complex after their service was over.
Yeah, but the Americans didn't got the lessons, from Japan, Vietnam, kambocia, and now Palestine, the same style the same behavior.
Take care Palestinians have an old 106 years bill of injustices made to them, Aipac, evangelists and so on, so good luck to you.
@CrazyBob420 I'm not surprised at all.
@@birds3xl863 6 days
Funny how Iraq now require British forces to back there government once again.
“This operation is called Shader, and UK troops - alongside dozens of other nations - are in the region at the strict invitation of the Kurdish-Iraqi government.
And then cry about it
I'm a patriot too, we accomplished nothing there. One day we'll have to pay for our awful mistake
I lived in Iraq during these horrible years. My brother and I were lucky to have very unusual names and surname, which made it unclear whether we were Sunnis or Shias to those hunting for victims to kidnap or kill. Yet I still got caught up in several explosions and firefights (my PC game shop was destroyed in one of them and I have pictures to back that claim up).
What you say in 3:30 was our default state of mind whenever we left home. 2007-2008 were the worst years in terms of sectarian violence, which in hindsight, makes me appreciate my father's decision to make us leave Iraq early 2007 even more. Many others weren't so lucky.
Wow.
@@BigFatSeal10 HE IS
Would like to check out those pictures if you can share them
@@BigFatSeal10 You first
Glad you got out. America owes you much.
Almost every Hollywood movie protagonist with a military background, who "did tours in Iraq & Afghanistan" is potrayed as traumatized.
that makes so much sense now
Americans get ptsd
The world becomes nostalgic.
My aunt was riding through Iraq when her hummer hit an IED. Her leg is still messed up and she has bad PTSD from seeing some of her friends die.
I think that's every soldier in every war.
Funny thing is they never teach about the blunder that was Iraq in US schools. School textbooks rarely cover recent events without bias. The most people from my generation know about Iraq is "Americans wanted oil." Thank you for bringing a unique perspective and talking about one of America's worst conflicts.
Probably because it's such a recent event and schools haven't incorporated it into their history curricula yet. You can definitely take classes about it in universities though. It's pretty much universally acknowledged that it was a really bad idea to invade Iraq, and that the government lied about it. I don't know why so many people seem to think that they're being cool and subversive dissidents by saying that Iraq was a bad thing.
How can it be so recent? It was like 15 years ago lol
@@rt_huxley9205 dude 15 years ago isn't a very long time, school books barely cover wars that have happened within the last 50 years, hell in my high-school we didn't even read about the Korean war, it was just a little bubble on the "war-timeline" or whatever, all emphasis goes to WW2. All we ever heard about in history class was how bad slavery was and how bad the holocaust was. There is little between that.
We aren't taught about wars in great detail because it would reveal our true roles, we rape the rest of the world so we can maintain or military status, and jumpstart our debt-slave economy when it's about to take a dump.
@@blakeslide6919 That's because Boomers make the books all about them and funding Vietnam.
Damn it’s crazy that I remember my parents and grandparents arguing over Christmas dinner about how this war was “just.” What lies we were all told.
I live in a muslim country and 2003 Iraq was the year we really hate the americans and saddam was declared a martyr while bush is the devil
thats how it works
it would have been the same if russia succeded but they didnt like 2014
You're being manipulated by this tankies and muslimboos who can't pick a side and would rather be a conspiracy theorist than a real teacher
@@jewell1276 I assure you, you are still fed lies.
@@jewell1276 they succeeded in 2014 so idk what ur talking abt, they wanted some of the eastern territories such as the Donbas and they got it
Did 3 tours in Iraq as an 11b (infantry) in the U.S. Army. Was brain washed by the machine to think all Muslim people were all terrorists. Doing patrols outside the wire, many hated us, but some understood many of us did not understand what was going on. Some of the Iraq civilians would bring us Chi tea to drink, chicken and goat eat.Today, living in NYC (where i grew up), i respect most of the Muslim community. They are some of the nicest, kindest, respectable people ive ever known. I love America and always will, but i hate what we do. Im sorry to all the familys, people, fathers, sons, daughters that i took part in destroying.
you've definitely been forgiven brother, yet i can't deny how iraqis still suffer from the effects of what you were doing till this day.
The Almighty is ever merciful and forgiving, as we should be too
Your a disgrace to the Infantry.
Saddam was worse than anything America ever did
Love the people, hate the imperialist government. The American people didn't do this.
As an Iraqi youth, he lived and knew a lot about that era. Yes, everything this young man said was true. Searches, theft, chaos, competitions, bombings, etc. It was a difficult period for all Iraqis, and after that was the sectarian period (a period from 2005 to 2011). There were many competitions between the ethnicities and religions of the Iraqi people. Until ISIS and its problems came until we expelled them, then the demonstrations and Corona, and then now.... This country and its people have endured a lot in the last 100 years. Frankly, I do not expect the situation to improve because of the West and its current policies, but I wish security and stability for my people and the peoples who suffer like us. ❤
I hope change comes to the west, it feels like the common people from everywhere are suffering from policies we do not have a say in
You realize ISIS was run by the Company... (CIA)?
As an Iraqi citizen this video is so accurate
When the invasion first started we were so happy my mom even cooked food for the US troops and they liked it me and my friend played football with the army patrols that was really fun
Until we saw the prison video
that prison was the beginning of everything when I saw
Abo ghreeb prison scandal on TV my heart broke in pieces i was so angry and ashamed
if I had a gun at that time i would definitely attacked the US troops but I was just a kid back then i just cried ,
Some group called themselves “The Resistance “ started attacking the US military and killing every Iraqi that was friendly with them dark times man very dark
wouldn’t wish what we went through to my worst enemy
you a shia?
Really gonna attack some random Us soldier who had nothing to do with it?
@@wickendiana8310 he plays a role by being there, last i check the iraq war didn't have a draft buddy
@@wickendiana8310 he would be based for that
@@wickendiana8310 "nothing"
America: Slams their law, order and tradition into a foreign nation
Also America: "Why are they fighting back?"
I think the problem was they *didn't* bring their law or order...
Though I'm sure it would have all been better if we imposed our traditions, like black friday, coronary disease, and school shootings.
@@andrewhooper7603well they got one of those.
@@andrewhooper7603 yes they did very stupid desisions if they wanted peace but makes sense for racket
I don't think they believed they wouldn't fight back, although there were some places they believed would be a good photo OP as they thought they were more western-sympathetic (that didn't happen).
I guess the goal is just to destabalise the middle east, turn regions against each other, divide and conquer etc. oil is part of it of course, but not all. the middle east is of geostrategic importance to the US to try maintain hegemony, maintain the dollar as the global reserve currency, to prevent countries with more nationalised industries from developing too much and challenging the status quo...
Yet, people will go along and believe the current western backed wars without questioning them enough. I think a lot do want to do good, the news makes them feel like this is what's right. In reality, everything is quite complicated and lots of wars are quite different from each other, so they can't be easily compared. Some diplomacy could actually do a lot to solve, some diplomacy had no chance because of who was invading (the US for example). Sometimes a sovereign nation is not really a sovereign nation but a puppet state, where citizens have no real democracy. Or maybe most countries aren't democratic, when the vast majority polled don't believe their government represents the average citizen's interests.
Iraq is just so sad. People feel like they have to say that Iraq was a brutal dictatorship before you can critique the horrific invasion, despite MENA western wars being responsible for millions of preventable deaths. Yet the US is not called a brutal dictatorship, despite being the bloodiest empire in history (yes, this is statistically true and discovered from a fairly recent book called "endless holocaust"). It's not an intellectual or realistic way of seeing a country, you should be able to state how there are some positives to a country's leadership that caused nowhere near the suffering of most western countries. It's clear from the start that they would not be made better from western intervention, but only treated far worse by the west.
Maybe in the long run these wars will turn out to be "mistakes" for the US. But the goal was never to stabalise the country, only to destroy the very fabric of that particular society, loot it's resources/labour and install western friendly client states that are inherently not stable.
Iraqis: Let's poke the bear!
Also Iraqis: Why they invade us?!?!
As an Iraqi, thank you for stating the truth of what happened here (and which we still suffer its consequences today).
A few notes:
• As an iraqi citizen under Saddam's rule, you are either a Ba'thi or an enemy of the state. Being a member of the Ba'ath party was a must if you wanted to get a job, travel, or even if you wanted to get your son into a respectable school. So, practically, everyone was a Ba'thi, especially those in the higher positions of the government. It was irrelevant whether they took the Ba'ath principles to heart or not.
Therefore, the de-ba'athification was basically a wild, haphazardous witch hunt that basically robbed Iraq of its best administrative experts.
• The American invasion did not take down Saddam's government. It took down the entire state (with its law, law-enforcement, economy, and every part of the infrastructure) It is a common experience today to go to a government agency and find your pre-2003 records are entirely missing.
and people still think a well armed populace can't do anything against the US military
A bunch of rice farmers can “do something” against the USA military
Especially when you order that military to oppress their homelands.
The government had a hard enough time with Waco and Ruby Ridge. How'd a full scale insurgency domestic go for them?
Show me your cache of artillery shells.
@@Oberon4278
Most Iraqis didn't have those, until they did
As an Iraq war Veteran (Former Army Infantry) literally everything in this video is 100% correct. You mentioned the rise of remote initiated IEDS (cell phone bombs) which we started to counter with the DUKE WARLOCK system, which my unit was one of the first to be outfitted with. For a brief moment of time that feels fleeting in retrospect, it worked. Then one day seemingly over night during the surge of 07-08 while we were on a COIN patrol in Mosul, 4 of our guys were KIA when an underbelly IED detonated under their M114's and that bomb was detonated via an IR trip wire. THAT was the moment I remember feeling absolutely fucking hopeless of making it out of there alive, because it finally sunk in just how smart and out crafted we were by an enemy that we knew nothing about, but had spent the last 4 years learning everything about us....
...and then the EFPs started showing up...
This video is probably the most honest and critical analyst I've seen of the war that doesn't feel saturated with bias towards one side or the other, and that's literally coming from a Grunt such as myself who fought on the streets of the war.
Ever wondered if perhaps your government wanted the Iraqi's to hate you? It's sounding to me like they did everything they could to give as many people as possible nothing to lose.
@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 It wasn't just Iraqis, stop saying "iraqis iraqis iraqis" when more Iraqis were killed by insurgents than Americans.
@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 whats your branch and mos? Rank? Do you attend West point? Is not my intention but at the risk of being argumentative I'm just simply asking if your strategic knowledge goes beyond RUclips videos. Going to a little research on how many bombs were dropped during world war II. If you can't see you can't fight if you can't stand up you can't fight if you can't breathe you can't fight. The same goes for any military or country, if you do not have water you cannot fight if you do not have fuel you cannot fight if you do not have an infrastructure for electricity you cannot fight. That is a basic way to win a war. In my opinion the United States government should never have gone into Iraq and I believe the way it was handled was completely wrong. Especially leaving like we did and leaving them high and fucking dry. I came to my opinion by spending a year in Iraq as a soldier. Like I said I agree with a lot of what this video says but I also disagree with some things that are greatly embellished or patently untrue. Starting with the title. I've seen a lot of Iraqis commenting, to them i say "shaku maku" and I ask is the title correct was it easy or was it a good way to have a really bad day to f*** with us? And you know as well as I do that some not all but some of your people would give us false intelligence and playing it right where the end result was us raiding someone for something that had nothing to do with the insurgency. A business competitor someone to piss them off someone that got their sister pregnant. Go get the Americans and tell them that Mustafa is a terrorist. Then we kick him. His door and he didn't do anything. I think I'm done here and I will close with this: if someone came to my country and did what we did to yours I would do exactly what y'all did. I will continue to kill and maim and demoralize that military force anyway I could until one night they shot me full of holes while I was putting a 155 in a hole in the street, or something. I respect what y'all did but I do not like you or your country. I regret nothing I did and never, I repeat never was it easy for you to smoke any of us. We did the smoking hooah. It's truly a shame that the men who started the trouble between us were not the ones in the street fighting over it. Many lost their lives many lost their sanity and their legs or arms and children and fathers and brothers and sisters and everyone lost their innocence but the men who started it did not even lose money they made tons of it actually. I do not respect them. So if you were in kindergarten or not born or never set foot in Iraq please educate yourself or shut your f****** mouth about what happened over there as far as what the military did. Only a few of us which were essentially just evil people did things like murder or rape or Abu ghraib. Everyone I served with served with integrity and honor I did our best for everyone's safety including our own and that included smoking anyone who tried to harm us. The military is a hammer. In the world view of a hammer everything is a nail. 🇺🇸
And no they weren't trying did everything they could to give the people of Iraq nothing to lose, what they were doing was making millions of dollars as war profiteers. Money. That's it, money. I pray that you are not so gullible and naive enough to actually blade that conflict was over anyting but money.😂🤦
@@holdenarches5337 I think its better just to let go, A lot of dudes have their mind stuck in Iraq or afghanistan
As an Iraqi,.... nothing just letting you guys know that I'm Iraqi.
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@@TheKing60210 fr
nice
your name is HusseinAli, we already know you're Iraqi
yes there are iraqi people on the world indeed
As an American I just want to let you know I don't like the taliban, but you don't have to like your opponent to respect them.
This Iraq not Afghanistan major difference
Thank you so much for spreading awareness. The Iraq war is such a disaster for humanity and for absolutely nothing but greed.
Bush def lied and created this, I fucking hate the US Gov.
Nah completely justified your country is in the shitter.
Well most wars are like this, very few wars seem to give actual benefits to the population of the winner, just the authorities...
@@valioooo1 no not most wars, that war in particular was a fucking disaster and a literal invasion with no reasons or justifications to back it up aside from propping up the MIC and seizing Iraq's oil reservoirs and handing them on a silver plate to greedy western energy corporations.
No, it was based.
It's really hard to fight a war when you have to wander around the desert asking random people "are you the enemy?".
even harder when your method of asking is turning the random people into the enemy.
Even harder when the person asking is the ENEMY
the person that turns random civillians into the enemy is even worse than "the enemy".
@@dhiadinn5663
Soldier knocks down bedroom door: "are you the enemy?"
"since you knocked down my lovely bedroom door then hecks yeah i am."
@@HermitKing731
As a first generation Iraqi American, My dad was a sniper during the Sadam era, and fled during the invasion. He never really told me much and refused to tell me stories, or the weight of what happened. It really only made me more curious and read up and watch videos like these, it's horrible seeing how even today, a majority of US citizens still think Iraqis are horrible monsters, and what the US did was nothing but a victory.
thank your dad for his service
@@mndeg For sure 👍
your dad probably killing civilian and raping the womans there, of course dude would not tell you that
@@mndeg I think his dad was in Iraqi military
@@KatuKenopsia Most Americans really don't have an opinion on Iraqis, let alone see them as monsters.
The USA and Israel is like that one school bully, who keeps harassing you, but when you stand up to him, he immediately goes to the teacher so you will be portrayed as the bully.
Ummmm, no, we may be a bully but we don’t need to run to anyone.
All of these factors boiled down into only one statement, and this goes for what happened in Vietnam as well:
You don't have a chance to win against insurgents who deem themselves as only defending their home without preparing to fully commit genocide, and even then it won't be easy nor worth the cost.
Underrated comment. Even if you look at the contingency plans for Iran, there's no scenario where the US would win without committing genocide. And even if they flatten the entire country, the government estimates it would only take 50 years for them to rebuild and catch back up. Basically, you will never win. As the Afghani's say, "you might have the watches, but we have time".
Guerilla war is essentially a war of mobile defence. Space is traded for time. For the occupier time is critical, thus cost. For the occupied, time is inconsequential, momentary defeat is acceptable as long as it entails entrapping the enemy such that initiative slips into the hands of the guerilla. The occupier needs at least 3 times the occupied to even stand a chance of defeating the occupied. Thus we see in Ukraine, Russia took the initiative and became the defender, now Ukraine has no initiative and no chance of beating such a defence. Same for Iraq & Vietnam as soon as the Iraqi's could take the initiative, dictate tempo and intensity of battle and wrongfoot the US- US defeat was inevitable.
Yes you can, but you have to ignore the rules. The problem is when the enemy has no rules but you do. I mean all we had to do was drop a dozen nukes on the place, but you know rules and such. Same as Vietnam. We could of just napalmed the entire country to a smoldering cinder. Killing the enemy is easy.
@@markiobook8639you're forgetting one thing. We destroyed the nva and destroyed the vietcong in every battle. Look at the numbers. Millions of vc dead to 50,000 Americans. We didn't lose the American public realized we were the bad guys and made the government withdraw troops. We basically got tired of slaughtering them.
Keep in mind the cost of guerilla warfare is involving innocent civilians at risk, you dont care the cost while it does prove effective, youre also the bad guy from it. E.g: dress up as civilian and ambush unsuspecting soldiers will put them into alert mode in the future with civilians that will lead to no issue with killing them among the enemy hiding as them. While the media will portray the soldiers commiting war crime, its the guerilla fighters are the one who throw innocent lives to fight their foes.@@markiobook8639 Guerilla fighters have long records of dirty works. This is simialr to Terrst using civilians hostage as meat shield and if the cops ever pull the shot, they will be painted as the one who kill the innocents.
The people who orchestrated this will never be held accountable.
Jews
@@GregHoover-yt7rl no, those responsible are the Israelis, and a lot of us Jews hate the Israeli government.
They're celebrated, it's insane. Blair still gets regular headlines/column inches whenever he wants.
@@lemagreengreen We don't celebrate them in the US at least. The vast majority have forgotten, but those that haven't just ask "are those b*stards dead yet?"
because we don't insist on it.
of course they never twice about ding horrible things even to it's citizens because we never make consequences for them. they know we'll grumble among ourselves then shut up & put up.
I grew up watching the war on terror on television and idolized the troops for their bravery and willingness to face danger head on. I joined in 2016 and have spent multiple deployments overseas for inherent resolve as well as being around the gulf during the fall of Afghanistan and end of said conflict. I’m nothing less than disgusted by everything that is the military industrial complex. My children will absolutely not serve in any capacity.
Don't worry they'll tax your kids to death so the military industrial complex can spend more money on PMCs and proxy gun for hires
They don't need loyal soldiers anymore just loyal tax payers
im from afghanisttan and ive seen stuff first hand it wasnt good to live here when americans were here and still isnt habitable after the fall
How do you feel about Biden leaving Afgan and all the American weapons behind some billion dollars worth of equipment.
"My children will not serve in any capacity."
Glad to retaliate to people abusing power by using your power on your kids to not become combat doctors or something
@@Mostlylikeyou1234 thats a reach
Iraq was a beautiful place before America. I’m pretty sure half the world was beautiful before America and the Un
Listen to Bad Religions song Numbers II... "Victory thru domination, subjugation for your 3rd world nation"... It's not a lie. we suck.
Shut the hell up saddam had already ruined Iraq… American only made it worse.
Baghdad was the city of lions
Shows how competent our life long politicians are in bringing people together.
History has always been useless wars after useless wars.
We really thought modern day would be any different, but these fuckers proved us wrong.
Honestly bro George Bush deserves the death penalty.
Ontop of being a warmongerer, he's a war criminal, and has lied to the entire world.
We have had revolutions over less.
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I mean, tbh the only reason the US isnt in some civil war bs is because everyone hates each other too much to organise into any group.
Not anymore.
I wish people would stop blaming the actual politicians and not the mental ogres that willingly placed them in that position over and over again because thinking is harder than not thinking.
How to radicalize an American: show them the truth of American Imperialism
It always goes both ways though.
Show the same truth to a mouthbreather and the cognitive dissonance goes the other way and "actually, being the world bully is based."
The Iraqis made me realized God is more important than nations.
@@georgemartin1383 there is no God
@@julietwhiskey7811there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger
yeah they both don't exist@@me_12-vw1vi
The single biggest issue is that we didn’t belong there to begin with! There were no WMDs, no mobile nerve agent labs, etc. It’s worth noting that not understanding the cultural norms runs a very close second. Our (The US) doctrine regarding occupation is antiquated and stained with the undue hubris of “America is #1” thinking. We should have known better and the fact we didn’t is a GLARING issue.
There's lots I dislike with the different ba'athist governments as it is. They are mostly good at producing dynasties of strongmen and suppressing any regional minority that threatens them. Their biggest worry turned out to be things like bread prices, corruption and unemployment.
I couldn't understand what the ba'athists in Iraq had to do with al-Qaeda. Saddam was the kind of secular dictator the al-Qaeda guys hated.
They did have some chemical weapons like what he used on the kurds cause we gave them to him during the Iran Iraq war, but he had turned them over to un inspectors on sight, n then they wanted the a nukes the yellow cake and he didn't think we was coming Saddam may have wanted to have em with all his heart but they had no way to attack america we're not a threat n we're not at all 9/11 s Saddam not a big guy on a god was in fact the other side of Islam that bin laden one is sunni one shiite n they fckin hate ea other more than us x thousands of years of historical history they damn sure weren't coordinating knocking down towers together,, Colin Powell no matter what they say had to have known better he didn't get thrown under the bus that man was smart AF and played the role did the yes sir bs maaaaan those poor people our poor troops , sic how a man will dodge a draft never throw or a duck a jab or fight in his life gain power n he's a war hawk. These men lead these open ended conflicts cause on day one they had no to do n get out list , wars that change sht borders something stupid is bad enough the ones that do really nothing man the leadership should die violently temper that be down. The character of the folks in America is different n once u abandon the moral high ground in both actions n bs propaganda that's lost for ever. U cannot ever regain that high ground of morality when ur blatantly scooming people n calling it something else
dont worry, USA is in declining in every possible way. good riddance to the USA.
I mean they did have some sort of chemical agents. Let's not forget how Iraq gassed innocent Iranians.
I think they did know. They consciously made the war as expensive as possible, to prop up the revenue stream for the military industrial complex.
For all the Americans watching, don't enlist, don't join the army. You'll die for nothing
Write a book with all that knowledge bro omg😱😱🤯🤯🤯
I served as a Corpsman in Marine Infantry units in a 20 year military career. I treated all manner of casualties even insurgent casualties. I had one insurgent casualty spit in my face and rub his blood in my face while treating a wound on his asscheek. In pretty good english, he would say that he hoped his blood infected me with aids. I was 21 years old. I didnt know why or for what reasons we were here. That casualty was later Medevac'd most likely to Guantanamo bay to never be seen or heard from again... i think about him and many others everyday. Like many young people in that time, I wanted to help people. I believed that a career in the military would have provided an avenue of purpose that was humanitarian and tested my courage. Instead, it revealed to me so much ugliness and led me towards self medicating, self-harm, and a thirst for destructive behavior in hopes that I find some sort of absolution that would make my guilt and pain mean something. But it's meaningless. I stayed in the military as a clinician until I couldn't anymore. Most of the people served with closely are now dead from suicide, irreparably damaged to the point of severe mental disability or now at high positions of authority possibly perpetuating a cycle of abuse that was designed to "prepare us for war". If not for my children, I would likely have killed myself as well. Perhaps I still will someday. But in the meantime, I'm gateful that the information can now be widely shared. Young people nowadays have such strong convictions and armed with knowledge. I have ironic hope that positive change can emerge. Thank you for this video.
Do not lose hope in life. You believe you made a grave mistake, but we all do. It's human nature to make mistakes. But the question is, are you going to learn from that mistake and strive to become a better person in the future?
[Say, ˹O Prophet, that Allah says,˺ “O My servants who have exceeded the limits against their souls! Do not lose hope in Allah’s mercy, for Allah certainly forgives all sins. He is indeed the All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Turn to your Lord ˹in repentance˺, and ˹fully˺ submit to Him before the punishment reaches you, ˹for˺ then you will not be helped.
Follow ˹the Quran,˺ the best of what has been revealed to you from your Lord, before the punishment takes you by surprise while you are unaware,
so that no ˹sinful˺ soul will say ˹on Judgment Day˺, ‘Woe to me for neglecting ˹my duties towards˺ Allah, while ridiculing ˹the truth˺.']
The Quran chapter 39, verses 53-56
@@strugglepresident3779 Corpsmen are medical personnel, he did not join to be an infantryman or rifleman.
@@strugglepresident3779 talk so much just to display ignorance
Read the Quran if you find too much free time to dwell on these destructive thoughts. Find your real purpose. May Allah guide you and forgive you.
Thank you. Thanks even to the one whom wanted to point out the ironies of military service. I recognize what I've said back then treaded very dark waters. Please forgive me. I don't wish my words inspire someone else to get hurt. I'm getting help. I understand that arriving at a better place may take time, and I may have some days that are better than others. But while I'm here, I can share my experiences, I can commit to help, and I can take each coming day with patience and find grace and forgiveness for others while I try to allow forgiveness in my own life. My wish is for anyone who views this video, and read this exchange in the comments, can allow forgiveness in their lives. There are indeed good people that are willing to hear your story and help you carry your burdens with you. Please don't arrive at suicide as an option until you give yourself and others in your life a chance. ❤️
America: Constantly goes in and creates absolute mayhem
Also America: Yo why you guys hate us so much?
None of them are Native to the Americas, all of those people are european and their descendants. People Native to the Americas are in their own battle for survival on their own land.
Saddam used experimental chemical weapons on kurdish populated civilian areas
And then they blame us for "affecting them negatively". They blame the narcos to Mexican people, yet the CIA created them and gave them guns.
Also america: here guys! take our culture, social influence, technology, media , money, and military protection in order to make your country a better place and once you do please shit on us about how we do nothing good but destroy shit. Lol its ok brodie we are use to being the most hated, its what comes with being #1. Dont be mad bro just try to find a way here and u can enjoy the beauitful life of america
@@MrVaDelux Perfect example of the colonizer mentality.
"You should be thanking us for funding those fascists who took over your country before we invaded and forced our shitty culture onto you. By the way, you sell your oil to us now and it's going to be fucking cheap or you're going to regret it, also we just pardoned that guy who murdered all those civilians because we don't want to scare our private military contractors into not commiting mass shootings over here too, like I said, our culture is yours now, whether you like it or not."
Iraq was stable until 2003. Yes Saddam was a bad guy but he kept the country stable. We had no reason to invade iraq.
He changed after the 90s. When he was a bad guy, America supported him very thoroughly.
@@Storming360 America gave him the chemical weapons he used against Kurds
@@BOBK-jf4qx you mean Iranians and Kurds?
@@slendrio Yes.
🇮🇶 I pray for those of iraq and yemen, defending our people
I pray for those oppressed in Kurdistan
@@yuriice8324 i pray too. but i think this statemet is meant for turks because syrian and iraqi kurdistan are already seprated
The Iraqis were so brave to stand up against the US despite being at a technological and economical disadvantage
They had Allah. HE’s above all technology & wealth. That’s exactly what Allah Akbar means, Allah is Greater than all.
We had the ONE that made his creation make those technology
We weren’t at any disadvantage they got nothing but those hands from the true resistance!!!!
what the iraqis didn't have in technology and economic strength, they more than made up for with creativity and courage
the same thing now happens in israel, where hamas is under a huge disadvantage and under constant siege, they still are giving israel extreme headache
@@artemis-arrow-3579New video coming soon: How Palestinians got so good at smoking Israeli soldiers
@@blackchrysler but like, let's admit it tho, the israeli occupation forces is one of the most advanced militaries in the world, with some very powerful and advanced weaponry
Hamas has been under blockade for countless years, with weapons they make from scraps, yet the still manage to give hell to the IOF, it really is something to admire
And remember, no a single WMD was ever found in Iraq
Google halabaja.
Listen to Col. Wilkerson or Scott Ritter (whose house has been recently raided by FBI)...they will give you the whole truth.
@@hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibsadly, the west supplied the chemical weapons.
@@hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiib Saddam fired many tens of thousands of chemical weapon artillery shells at Iran. They got those shells from America's NATO allies, at the urging of the Reagan administration. They weren't really WMD, tho, since the average number of casualties per shell fired wasn't much more than 1.
@@mpetrison3799 its funny bcause all those chemicals weapons created a toxic wall that prevented iranians from advancing. 90% of the shells by both side had no impact
One thing I learned about GWOT, is that IEDs are a powerful weapon. It's greatest ability comes from the psychological terror and trauma it brings. It turns battle hardened men into broken ones. A poor peasant defending his country from a supreme military super power. All he needs is a rifle, IED, and God and he can defeat any empire. Not only defeat them, but cause them to kill themselves years later. Its kill list grows throughout the decades.
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The US won, though
You know something, you're 100% right. IED'S scared the fuck outta me. I didn't care about small arms fire. That was kinda exciting. But not knowing when or if you're gonna hit an IED (Especially EFP ied's) was super frightening.
ur def on a watchlist now
@@hellablix If I am, then you know I must be doing something right.
Trillion dollar war budget? *pulls out Nokia*
imagine messing up so bad that even the CIA guy who wouldn't mind committing the worst crimes and atrocities to reach his goals said you gone too far
MOST CIA clandestine operatives jobs consist of convincing someone to betray a system they are already bitter towards. And they do it to protect American interests. This weird belief that the CIA is a bunch of spooky assassins sneaking around and assassinating world leaders is not factual.
Mossad does this liberally but thats because Mossad and Shin Bet really dont care if the world knows what they are doing.
Operation Shock and Awe was broadcast live like a football game, like the superbowl. Think abou that next time you see that photo of Isrealis watching Gza get bombed.
Its mind boggling how the US military manages to make every wrong decision available during the war.
It’s almost as if this video was put together by someone who hates America lmfao 🤣
They aren't wrong decisions. They r deliberate acts of evil. U don't say the Nazis made wrong decisions when talking about the Holocaust.
Is their MO.
Israel MO is pedophilic Genocide followed by calling the victims terrorists and crying about naziss
France MO is battles followed by surrender followed by foreign legion causing massive ambushes
I feel like the title is a bit misleading. It implies that they either inflicted a high casualty ratio, or had a lot of success in direct action. And both are a resounding "nope"
"How they made occupation hell" is more accurate.
That said, the actual video is 9/10. Really good explanation of both the politics and the combat situation.
What America and the west did to Iraq is beyond disgusting. Yes I don't like Saddam. But it's impossible for me to feel any sort of sympathy for these invaders. How they still see themselves as heroes when literally half of the Middle Easter civilian population hates them (for obvious reasons) is also beyond me... In fact I'm kinda jealous. I wish I had such a high ego that a room full of haters would not bring me down... figuratively speaking.
Unfortunately our species will never escape war there will always be a power struggle of some kind some where
Half the MIddle East will always hate everyone who is not them.
"Me against my brother. My brother and I against our cousins. My cousins and I against the world."
They especially hate the more successful nations of the world, because they remind Arabs of their own failure.
Worst part is you have kids with NATO or f35 pfps saying “we were so based we wiped out a country lol!!!”
ngl, sounds kinda hot
@@justanaverageguy912sounds like fasc1sm
I mean we kinda did
@@heyyoutroll5070but you needed more than 30 countries rather than an achievement it sounds more like an embarrassing moment you want to forget because its the equivalent of +30 boxer ganging up on an already tired boxer and celebrating their win afterwards.
@@justanaverageguy912average american, thinking kids are hot
I feel so guilty over what our country has done to the middle east. Iraqi's have every reason to despise us.
Iraqis are smarter than that. We will not blame the American people for the folly of George Bush
Can't be said about american who to dumb to read and believe every shit their gov serve rhem
THEY SHOULDNT HAVE TOUCHED KUWAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@WorkersofAmericaRise
None of your business
@@WorkersofAmericaRise The US doesn't have to and shouldn't be the world's police. Pretty much every non-western country it touches it fucks up. From every country in the Middle East, to Asia, and to Latin America. There's no reason the US should get involved in trying to police these countries. They only do it to steal resources and profit off of said country.
I’ve been very blessed to be born in America. With that being said, I feel a sense of shame and guilt for what my comfort comes at the cost of.
Yet we are innocent of our government crimes, inhumanity. Most Americans would never approve of our government’s actions.
I always had a very American view of the war in Iraq. Of course I understood that much of the war was controversial, particularly the way American troops in general treated the populous, but I still always thought the iraqi response was more extreme than it should have been. I always thought that religious extremism played a bigger role in violence than any other factor. This video showed me that that is not necessarily the case. They had every right to be very very angry.
Well when Mexico invades your country 2 times and kills a million people and tries to put a puppet government in power youd be angry too
What IS true, is there was an influx of iranian and other arab "agitators" that came in to stir up trouble, pass out disinformation among the public and lend false support. That was to cause confusion and also make tons of money.
Seeing how the American military attacks nations in foreign conflicts going back even to the Korean war, it seems since the first day any war they target civilian infrastructures to completely and absolutely cripple a country's hope of ever being a functioning state. Iraq, Afghanistan, even North Korea were completely debilitated and even to this day. The only countries that have ever recovered from American invasion has been Germany, Japan, and South Korea which the US gave generous loans and even donations in an effort to rebuild the country. And look at them now, some of the greatest economies to this day.
Just strange that it seems the US shapes the world of who it wants to be a functioning country and who it will decapitate for the foreseeable future..
@faisal3398 wrong about Afghanistan and N. Korea. You can blame Russia and china for that.
@@jrr7031No, blame America for pillaging those nations.
“The next country might be yours.”
“Joke’s on you! I’m Haitian! Hahah… wait…”
Your Iridium is about to receive some "liberation".
@roastbeef4918 no no, some "democracy and human rights"
@Killfahgutsimagine having severe brain damage
@Killfahgutsoops sry i meant a murican education
@@fraskf6765
American education isn’t the problem, it’s that some assholes want to embarrass the whole country
This is why I still come to youtube. For actually well researched videos like this. Great content my brother.
Yeah, it's hard to come by these well made documentaries, for there is so many misinformed and down right propoganda shorts in this site.
Kraut is one of them and the infographic show is also one of them (this one is literally a show, just entertainment).
Anyway, learn to pick well made documentaries here.
@@wersab5960 Agreed. I wouldn't be surprised if they were on some US based fund or even a federal institution payroll, pushing propaganda into people by manipulating facts and outright lying/making things up.
@@wersab5960 Its done on purpose
Bro it's all paid arabian propaganda, stop watching this guy and read the war crimes that the Iraqians actually did, what the afghanistan people did to hide from the most powerful country, how cowardly they actually both are, this guy's literally just a propaganda channel who puts out "well, umm... the source of the world's problem is only the US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" even palestine's war crime history is glossed over because it's been acting as the victim for 70 years now since 1947.
Well researched? The US and its allies suffered a lot less casualties than the Iraqi insurgency, they weren't exactly "smoked".
Big ups to Iraqis for fighting off the biggest global Tyrant since Lyndon B Johnson. I'd do the same thing if someone invaded my home.
Yes, big ups. They fought so honorably from behind all those civilians.
@@zekezeke7381Most of the fighters were civilians, in their own towns & cities. In their own country.
@@zekezeke7381 there's no such thing as honor in a war, just death and trauma.
@@Doomburger7stfu you cardboard moralist. Defending your home and family is the highest of honours, death and trauma is only brought by the invaders.
@@zekezeke7381 Americans fought so their billionaire masters could buy another child sex slave island, it is literally the least honorable country I can think of
this video has a brash title but is actually one of the most comprehensive and informative videos i've watched covering the iraq invasion.
It BS this is all Half-truths even the title as you pointed out sooo good at Smoking US Soldiers lol they killed 4,400 they lost a Million.....how is that good SMH how are people this dumb.
If Iraqis were any good at killing killing American soldiers they would have killed more than like 2.5k over a decade. The reality is that they were bad at it and got shit on by US who just got bored over trying to create a democracy in a country that didn't want democracy
Yeah I clicked on it because the title pissed me off but man what an eye opening video
@@gageschmidt3208 I mean its how Americans view slaughtering other folks. Death is death
Clickbait but instead it’s a steak dinner.
Imagine coming back to the US as a veteran and realise that the government doesn't care about you after you almost lost your life for their imperialist profits.
thats why most of them killed themselves really
Devastating
@@Dexter5kk Not really but close. Most do that because they've had their identity stripped away when returning home, although it is true the gov doesn't care
The way that they act like they deserve praise for discovering basic morality AFTER helping to kill a million people, and still play victim because their evil government didn't reward them enough for it is really fucking disgusting.
@@yassersaeed3056 that's basically because they're pledge of allegiance brainwashed since Kindergarten. That's textbook oppression of the working class.
> creates immense power vacuum
> puts an army worth of hostile soldiers out of a job
> acts surprised when instability follows
Holy shit. We were the bad guys🥲. We literally created more “terrorism” by treating these people, who had every right to be angry so poorly. Imagine if some foreign invader knocked your door in, and humiliated you in front of your family. You too, would be up in arms
Awain
We are the bad guys for not dealing the killing blow and drawing out not just their suffering but our own and the rest of the world who dealt with this for twenty years.
America is about to hit a crossroads: we must either embrace our destiny as a global empire or decide we don't like sausage now that we know how it's made and cede the throne to some other world power and hope we can somehow maintain our way of life in absence of being the biggest, baddest thing around with the ability to economically strangle to death anyone who rocks the boat.
Of course, losing this place of prestige means our standard of living will inevitably drop. We can't wait until then to decide if we're OK with that, because by then it's gonna be too late to reverse course.
We tried to screw off to our hemisphere and be left alone. The first fifty years of US history taught us that this was not an option.
It's up to Americans to decide which way this country is going to go.
You where the terrorists all along
You believe everything you hear immediately. You're still impressionable even as an adult.
I by no means condone what terrorists do against the west, but i do understand it to a certain degree. If you know just a little about how some of them and their families was treated by us, it's really no surprise why they would hate and want to destroy us. It's literally what made so many people join the US military after 9/11, you see foreigners killing people on your soil -> you want to go on their soil and kill some of their people.
The Americans managed to replicate the side effects of hundreds of years of European colonization in less than a decade. Truly a powehouse of a country.
Americans? More like the permanent political class within every allied nation and tbw unelected globalist oligarchies. Who use inlaw military acts and neoliberal economics to militarily and financially break those with different cultures and traditions for wealth power and resources in the false name of freedom and democracy. The last 7 years have exposed the globalist socio-fascists to the average U.S..citizens, etc. National Populists within every alled nation. We respect those with different cultures and traditions and have forged a new international alliance to oppose them and to democratize the rising Western Civilization state. Everything we've watched play out was theorizes by prized author and Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington.
@James G my brother in Christ you're watching the example
Everywhere Britain colonized has become richer with a higher standard of living. This is well known...
@@TEAMHUMAN1 indias gold
@@TEAMHUMAN1 blessing froms Jamaica
Really hard for me as an Iraqi to watch the video but I had to.... Thanks GDF for clearing everything to everyone...may God bless you and your family 🙏
Do you know about all the terrible things your nation has wrought? Are you taught about that?
That doesn't justify 40 army's from different countrys coming to "liberate" Iraq and destroy *mass destruction weapons" which was a big lie just so they can kill as they want and humiliate people freely please i advice you to watch the video first and speak after....@@joeblowe7872
Clearly you didn't experience war at least from the invaded country "pov" trying to live normal life after everything is gone (factorys/hospitals/schools) is not easy how can you???
I remember one time when I was young American platoon came to our neighborhood searching for "weapons" ended up with my grandfather taken and took all our ID's,personal money,and our womens gold .... pushing/hitting my grandmother against the wall just because she tried to stop them to not take my grandfather.....they throw my grandfather from the humvee 1 km away saying and i quote " you animals need to walk a little bit " .....
So yeah please don't try to set us up to be guilty
till this day we still suffering from what happened to us .... No one deserves war
As an American i stand against tyranny and back the Iraqi people. Now our own government has turned against us.
Let's not pretend Iraqis were innocent victims at all. From them putting mentally ill women as suicide bombers to kidnapping other Iraqis and forcing them to plant IED"s or their family would be murdered.
Then we can go into their atrocities in the war, the fact that if they didn't invade Kuwait this never would've happened, how those choosing to fight a guerilla war against a conventional military led to more extreme measures.
This is a typical 'speak bad of the US behalf but not the evils of the enemy.'
@@joeblowe7872 Many nations, including the US, teach a very biased view of their history in schools & purposely either twist or don't mention key points or reasonings.
No, we did not lose the Algerian war militarily speaking, the French army literally destroyed the Algerian insurgents, it is more similar with Vietnam for the Americans (even if they lost militarily), the French people in was fed up with the war and the conscripts, French Algeria cost far too much for what it provided, the divisions were too great towards the end of the war and the international community put pressure on the France to give independence to Algeria, in particular the USA which did not want a Europe that was too powerful and independent from the USA (what is funny is to see a country position itself as anti-colonialist, but must its very existence to colonization and massacres of indigenous peoples, and which is openly rascist and segregationist towards part of its population at this moment in history).
When your country , your dignity and the security of your family is on the line ...everything can be a weapon ...Iraq was a beautiful country ..A rich history that witnessed the rise of a brilliant islamic scientific community and the inventions of scientific methods that are still used to this day like algebra ...only to be invaded , destroyed for greed by a criminal state for its natural resources ..I remember the first night of invasion when I was young ..as a Tunisian we felt we were being invaded as well ..never saw my father that angry and heartbroken as I did that night...
@@FactCheckerGuyMost intelligent American media channels consumer :
don't put Islam or any religion in the same sentence as science.
@@snapjitzyAlgebra is an Arabic word. They really did add some good things to the human experience.
Until the Mongolians started lobbing palm trees and hostages over the walls, Baghdad was the most intellectual city in the world. It has since become a depressed hell hole that still has PTSD from 800 years ago.
It's funny the Iraqis were basically armed for free. However never learned how to shoot. They were horrible shots, on par with the ghetto gangs like a blood or crips in the US. They all need automatic weapons because they can't hit a target without spraying
@@snapjitzyIslamic scholars are the reason you’re not a slave in some European shed son.
The guy that owns the liquor store I go to was a kid during the invasion of Iraq. He said you could buy an AK at the flea market for about $1-3 USD - im glad his family made it out. I know a lot of folks didn't 🙏🏻
@NoFux he tried to go in your mom's box, but it was too full bro🙏🏼
@NoFux are you trying to make a joke?
It's very interesting tho. People who were invaded still prefer to live in a country of invaders.
@@sebsebski2829 You think if you’re a fucking war refugee you can easily pick which country to go to?
@@Crease804 Outstanding move.
16:22 "killing 17 soldiers"
US government: THOSE HELICOPTERS WERE EXPENSIVE
Imagine what else the americans did to the Iraqis during those door to door raids...
You don't have to imagine, there's records of it and it's just as bad as you think
Read about Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and you’ll get a better picture of American terrorism and atrocities
@@johnlemma401 thank you for the information. I’m heartbroken now
@@juintnot every infantryman committed warcrimes. Both sides killed non combatants
@juint hurrdurr all infantry are war crime baby murders!!! War is horrible and blaming random men of war crimes is gay and cowardly.
Just came to tell you, US made Iraq’s life expectancy go down ten years, and Vietnam’s 22
Skill isssue
And 2 soldiers died in Iraq in 2014 (I think).
@Killfahgutswhat us did was way worse tbh
@@ir5682 Do enlighten us what makes the US worse than the Iraqis?
We didn't go into Iraq out of the blue, things with Iraq had been strained for decades at that point, especially after the ass whooping from Desert Storm showed us. The US and coalition forces put Iraq, the 4th largest military on that hemisphere, back to factory settings because they were pulling bullshit with Kuwait.
Every time the US has done something, it's 9 times out of 10 because the other country fucked with us-OURBOATS-, our allies, or they were running their mouth on the world stage. Saddam was lying about having WMD's after the US was in Afghanistan, and the US was paranoid that a country it had open hostilities with, having those capabilities, so we and other countries did the sensible thing and went in to take out Saddam, only to find out that he either lied or exaggerated about the ownership of WMD's.
The Iraqi government was known for its brutality through the regime changes, using people as shields and you wanna say the US is the villain in all of this?
The viets can just marry another german man and theyre safe
It must be a humbling experience to see the best funded military and every scientist, engineer, and analyst get repeatedly outsmarted by a farmer with some scraps and nothing left to lose.
Thats a gross oversimplification iraq isn't just "farmers" it was pretty well developed pre invasion sorry to burst your bubble.
The last time remember we're the one who smoking them
@@kingpiye7060 12 year nuclear sanctions and before that was an invasion and THEN before that was an eight year war with iran
you went into a dilapidated mess of a country with 31 other nations and still got smoked, even after you spent 3 trillion iraq is still anti-america
@@varion3459 no American got smoked😂😂 look at the death toll and death rate amongst Iraqis and tell me otherwise. If you’re mad Americans have a conscience and didn’t intentionally bomb civilians, just say that
@@jackainthereA kd of 8/1 is 'getting smoked' the what the he'll did Ukraine do to russia?
A American calling other people criminals is rich. 🤦♂️🤣
My favorite part was when GDF "and that country could be yours" in reference to US invasions. Way to send shivers down my spine!
I wouldn’t say it’s a likely event or situation although in the past I’d say CIA is fucked and been more wrong then right in decision making
Right? after watching this video made me think of the cartel rethoric some congressmen are puking and if Iraq was hell Mexico will be soo much worse, take afghanistans mountains and Iraqi rage and youve got the recipe for a war that America has never seen or felt in its history, Mexico is no place to fuck around with.
Republicans pushing for sending troops to Mexico, because of the "fentanyl epidemic". 😆
@@Bensux
That actually needs to happen. Should've done it a decade ago...
Nah that shit was just straight fear mongering, there was no point in saying it if there wasn’t a message attached
I was there 2006-2007. Every week we had to re-train on what new tech they would come up with. It had gotten to the point to where they would use garage door sensors to set them off. We had jammer systems in our humvees that you can turn on or off to defeat the cell phone thing, but the trade off was not having radio communication, the jammer jammed everything. So as a Vehicle commander I had to constantly use my best judgment on when I needed our bubble on, or when we needed to talk on the radio. That alone was stressful as hell 😅
Holy shit that’s an insane situation!! Is there any proof that you beat an IED with the jammer? Aren’t those jammers like insanely bad to be around?
@@jibletjibletstein8040 the system was called the Chameleon, I think its predecessor was the “warlock”. They worked within a certain distance for sure considering it jammed our radios too.
many good Americans died, many good Iraqis died, only for Iran and pentagon warlords to profit from the war.
Same shit different land… this happens always.
Jesus
I remember being in high school when 9/11 happened. A friend of mine was recruited into the army to serve overseas (He is alive and doing well). Thanks for uploading this video and explaining what was going on over there. To repeat what many have said in the comments.. it was a stupid war that wasted many lives and resources.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11
@@safeamer1313 Yeah it did. In that the US used 9/11 as an impetus to invade not just Afghanistan, but also Iraq as part of the "war on terror".
@@LordVader1094 Iraq had no connections to al-QAYDA nor to 9/11.
@@safeamer1313 He clearly understands that, but is pointing out that 9/11 was used as the caus belli for the Moronican invasion of Iraq.
Was recruited? He signed up. There was no draft, he volunteered.
When US invaded, you either died as a civilian or died as a insurgent, defending yourself. Either way you will be antagonized.
LOL nice
@@RalphdontGAFcareful, the more people you piss off the more people will hate you. And that’s what started this mess in the first place.
My dad was a senior chaplain of the UK force there - what he saw completely destroyed his mind and life. That growing up I saw what it did to him as vicar (and by extension myself and my family), I can only begin to imagine how absolutely hellish this war must have been for the millions of innocent Iraqis affected. He did eventually recover, but knowing that the army did this war and learning more the things they did, I have never once wanted to associate with that damned Red Poppy ever again.
I wish people took time to consider what war actually is - pointless evil. Seeing the average person in the West practically gagging for wars and loving the ""glory"" of it makes me sick. That closing quote of "needing to find a country and smack them against a wall occasionally" sums up the horror & its pointlessness perfectly.
Great video btw.
You're honestly one of the first comments I've seen say "my family member was in [Insert war]" and actually care about what happened to the people there.
Most folks only talk about how much it affected them and their lives completely ignoring the real victims.
It's crazy how so many Leftists here in Toronto support Ukraine and call for more affirmative action towards Russia. 😢 understand ur just sending all your young men to go die in Russia. Thot yall libs cared for ppl
war isn’t pointless evil, war is just a given in human nature, dont prepare for it or ignore it and face the consequences when someone that did wants to settle an argument with you, there isnt a worst position than being in the losing side of a war, just ask the iraquis
[War is the difference of opinion, based on coloring of the law or subject of interpretation. From an early age, we are taught what not to do. Don't be this way, don't be that way. This is because the grammar we are taught is based in opinion and fiction. War is a battle of opinions, it is not a contractual fact. Meaning that it is based on opinion or subject of interpretation on the facts to make a judgment based on fictional conveyances of language. 'Pro' contradicts itself as 'toward the front', 'forth', 'forward', the very definition based on subject of interpretation and 'no' and 'un' is negation, creating nothing; no facts; babble.
For thousands of years the people have been mind controlled to think of opinion as fact because they have been coerced through that of violence of death throughout the centuries. Cucking generation upon generation of family. Now the truth is not containable. Facts can never meet fiction and they know this. That is why we are being continually and severely traumatized at never before an levels. There is trauma and fear around every corner. It is too lock us into fight or fight, lower and susceptible thinking. But we can separate our selves from right and wrong. We must educate ourselves with the tools needed to be in our power.
The u.s. government and constitution was disqualified in 1999, when it came out of its 3rd and final international bankruptcy, by : Russel-Jay: Gould when he proved the grammar as being fraudulent and misleading and based on subject of interpretation on word definitions. They failed to reauthorize their own currency and constitution. They decided that they would operation under their opinions as law and no longer had to consider the will of the people. This is clearly explained in the documentaries: piercing-dynasty and last-flag-standing.]
Your Dhjal army comes to cause destruction and violence to people that are living in peace. Violence was never the solution. Hate begets hate and violence begets violence. Jesus nations are the Antichrist.
the RPG really is the symbol of resistance, much more than any kalashnikov. Think about it, many other firearms can do the kalashnikovs job just as well for cheap, but for defeating things like helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles on a tight budget? the RPG7 is your friend
tfw Lpg gets defeated by aluminium cage
@@hassan8116me copenik
@@kingcrimson9555 cope
@@zamsuthalim vatnik
The newer ones not so much though.@@kingcrimson9555
I remember back in 4th grade, maybe around 2009, my teacher had brought her husband to school to tell us about the military. When it came time to ask questions, I asked him "What's your body count?" and got reprimanded because I'm not supposed to ask people that. I felt bad about it before, but not anymore. How is he gonna come talk to children about joining the military, and not be ready to discuss what soldiers are actually used for?
Looking at all the soldiers in my family, the ones post WW2 have none, barely (grandfather had every right to shoot a georgian prisoner who was trying to attack his officer with a metal rod, but he trusted his superior and after the officer blocked the prisoners stike grandfather took him out with the back of an AK to the forehead), ones that fought in WW2 and WW1 and and the war of independance and the revolution of 1905, and ... weve lost count, but the higher the count the more of a hero they would be in our eyes. In our language hero means 'powerful one'.
No, that was a smart ass thing to ask. As someone who served two combat deployments to Iraq and one in Afghanistan you have no idea how much that messes with our PTSD. A huge problem for us is the people we personally killed. The body count was the strategy in Vietnam. We had strict ROEs. Most of us aren't proud of what we had to do, we're proud we served our country. If nothing else, considering the invasion wasn't justified, we were the huge target for Islamic extremist. They planned their attacks on us, not civilians on the homeland.
I think your teacher did it for y'all to experience. He def wasn't recruiting you. There's literally no point in it. And as it's 4th graders you're NOT ready to hear the horrors of war. It would traumatize most of the class. You felt bad because somewhere in you, you knew it was wrong. Having said all that, it takes balls to ask that as a fourth grader. I commend you for that.
It's really a question every person that served should be able to answer.
When I grew up I liked to ask my grandfather about the war (WW2), obviously I was too young to really understand it, but he mostly told me about the air battles, as he flew in the Luftwaffe. Only a couple years ago, did we have in depth conversations about his service. Including strafing runs. By now he has passed away at the proud age of 101. He was very honest about it, didn't glorify anything but also didn't regret anything.
On a different occasion I had the pleasure to speak with someone who served in the USAF in Afghanistan and flew am F-15E. When we, inevitably, came to that question he said "too many to be proud of it, too few to would have made it worth it" which I found to be an interesting answer.
Cool story bro
@@26michaeluk oh no, poor PTSD. poor poor you, no one should ever remind you of the crimes you committed.
This channel has got to be the least advertiser/corporate friendly or monetizable channel on RUclips. You’re like the exact opposite of mr. Beast. I’m glad to see you’re still getting mad views.
Alot of butthurt americans in the comments lmao
Fr probably their fathers have ptsd bc of iraqis
not quite, its just very cringe to me bc ik its always the ones least affected by these kind of events that use this sort of thing as further ammo to look down on americans who are generally not part of the 1% manipulating everything. always the woke, didnt-happen-to-me-but-someone-i-know bourgeois crowd living comfortably but are also the loudest whiners. we have enough of those in america as well so ik the type. so boring. peace from a black guy in the us
I've read some nasty, disrespectful and devious comments here. It baffles how disrespectful and ignorant alot of americans are.
Most of the Americans in here are butthurt by our government lying us into an unjust war full of crimes. Which is pretty justified.
L Americans, W Iraqis
How’s Iraq doing right now?
@@Dante.- Having a president that can properly speak and walk on stairs.
@@simplepointstudio6210 *so it should feel more embarrassing to know that old frail man can glass your nation in a second and feasibly wouldn’t have to answer to anyone about the consequences of it*
Naturally, as US world leaders are immune to war crime trials
@@Dante.-
This does not make us feel remorse
When we bury you alive
You and your ilk have only seen battle in video games
The living example of the cowardly American man
We call him Bobby, meaning sissy
Keep saying shit in the comments
@@simplepointstudio6210who also has US bases in his country 😂 cope harder
These wars are wars for profit. Topbrass couldn't care less for Iraqis and their own soldiers. Oil and numbers in defense contracts is what really matters.
Folks! today is a new day, let it be a new start for you with the Almighty Jesus Christ. God awaits you✝️
These wars are because of Israel and nothing else profits and oil are just automatic consequences of invasion
you dont see the bigger picture. the ones who run your economy and have houses beneath new york. the war was fought for them
The amerimutt seething in the comments is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣
I love how the video describes how saddam basically rigged the country to implode before he died and yall are like "ha ha, we got you!!!" In response to over 300k civilians dying mostly to sectarian conflict and lack of basic utilities due to social collapse.
@@dickyboi4956Thank G-d you are getting repleaced by the Smarter Brown man
@@dickyboi4956 so maybe the US shouldn’t have supported Saddam for years?
@@billusher2265 The US played both sides in the Iran Iraq War. Khomeini was installed by the US and backed by Israel as a direct counter to Baathist Iraq.
Ok racist
The worst part about this is you can never ask for forgiveness for taking someone else's life, you can delude yourself with woke rationale but spilled blood can only be avenged by spilling blood, and boy does America know how to make enemies, a lot of really really bad ones that aren't going away any time soon.
Your typical woke people was out on the streets condemning the haphazardly carried out invasion back in 2003 calling for not unaliving people for bogus cause. They still do.
and they know how to make friends too, a lot
@@WorkersofAmericaRise No, Israel is not a friend.
What about Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Fiji, , Canada, Singapore, Australia, and all of NATO? @@shortfattoad7317
@@shortfattoad7317 money is a friend of everyone
Theres a reason veterans NEVER appreciate themselves for being a veteran of Iraqi war. Remember, according the government, any mental illness gained from war is non service related.
Ahh, the 'non-service related' card... governments love this one.
This was literally a life changing video. I was considering joining the military, but fuck, never mind.
Good for you.
No more Americans should risk their lives for the industrial military complex and Israel.
@@yuyuyuyuyuy484 I wasn’t planning on doing it for any noble cause or for my country I just wanted the experience. I definitely don’t think it’s worth it anymore
@@stephentrash8579 if you were just planning to do it for fun you wouldn't have made it past boot camp anyways
@@notjeffbezos7579 when did I say that
@@notjeffbezos7579 Nah a lot us zoomers could benefit from an experience like that, you know discipline, responsibility, brotherhood and all that. Too bad its all to support Isreal
Funfact: Iraq only had a wild wild west scenario for about 8 months, and largly due to released prisoners and US disarming police/military (mass surrender).
After about 8 months or so, the Shia religious leaders called for tribal leaders to police their own areas. This then limited crime and lawlessness to major cities like Baghdad but almost nil effect in Southern tribal cities.
Many welcomed the US army, but with the indiscriminent killing of civilians and US troops sexually abusing teenage girls quickly turned any US supporter into a resistance fighter.
VIRGIN invaders
vs.
CHAD home defenders
95 to 1,200
Scoreboard
Ah yes very sigma💀
@@MR_LoreYT no time for pretty boy narcissism when you are getting bombed by invaders my brother
@@MR_LoreYT
The American soldiers suffered a very great military loss and they really paid the price in Iraq. This is the truth. The media tried to hide America's defeat
Proud to he iraqi. Alhamdullah throughout history we've been formidable yet gentle and humane
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Y’all literally invaded Kuwait 😂
@@S4v3_w3stBecause of a leader supported by the US, who they FUNDED just YEARS prior against Iran. Now Hussein had a lot of American weapons, but a truce with Iran. He needs a win and he does nothing different to what he did before, the only differwnce being American bussinesses having a stake in Kuwait.
you know why they invaded kuwait? Also, it in no way justifies the killing of many iraqis, rascism, and oppressing them. Also america did not invade iraq because of "kuwait" They literly had plans to invade lebanon syria libya iraq yemen iran afghanistan but decided in the end only on iraq and afghanistan@@S4v3_w3st
"Humane" tell that to the Kurds, Kuwaitis, and Iranians lol
Not even been 20 years and how fast we seem to have forgotten this part of history already