this video will be secretly banned by RUclips. you see you can talk about atrocities committed by Russia or China or Iran or the Nazis etc but when you start to really get around to covering western crimes of the 21st century like Iraq then that is a Big no-no. maybe next time do a western sanctioned crimes narrative like uighurs if you want your channel to survive. doing a non sanctioned western narrative like the erassure of a certain group of people in Palestine actively supported by the USA that's a big no-no.
That's usually what people say when they don't believe you. Like when you tell old classmates that you were raped back in HS, and it was by group coordination among bullies. There's only truth and lies, hon. That makes two sides, not three.
@@carolinematusevich889Tks for your reply but I do believe what's being said. Before that, I was on the U.S. side but only bc I hadn't heard this.War is complicated and I'm pretty sure there's truth and lies on both sides. So to find the truth, one would have to do a deep dive. What's your opinion on what the truth really is?
The thing is, there is no such thing as truth. We can never 100% know everything that happens or 100% know exactly what happened. That's the scary thing, there are these small details that neither side is able to verify.
“They hate us because our freedom” yeah it has nothing to do with our hypocrisy and war crimes against civilians and our constant meddling in their affairs.
As a combat veteran, I’m disgusted by the war crimes the US commits against innocent civilians. A reality nobody talks about. How about we let other countries be? Took me a while to understand that we do not fight for “liberty and freedom”. We fight for oil and special interest.
This is exactly why, despite having numerous family in the service, I never joined despite wishing I could go to Afghanistan after 911(I was a young teen). I decided to stay the school route while keeping an eye on the news. Iraq '03 was nothing more than our generation's modern 'Vietnam'. We were a nation still reeling from the events, and our government took advantage. Also, I hope you've found some form of peace in life. Sorry, friend :/
Well you know what they say History is written by the victors But that doesn't mean the victors are innocent in War Especially when it comes to War crimes
Nope. On both sides a lot of people are held accountable for their war crimes in almost every conflict. A lot slips thru the cracks, but people are definitely held accountable. Its a difference between people in the field being convicted war criminals, and entire countries
What is the point of the geneva convention laws at this point, if your country is strong or your name is America you can just deni the crimes and no one can do a thing about it, as an iraqi my self i can assure you that the damage they did hasn't been fixed to this day
The Geneva conventions are guidelines that tie in to the laws of war. For instance under the laws of war if a civilian is by a target and the target is deemed more important the civilian can just be written off as collateral to strike the target, or if insurgents use a hospital or school as a base it is no longer covered by Geneva. And if a civilian picks up a weapon they are considered a unlawful combatant by Geneva and are therefore not covered by the conventions and can be killed. Most people who bitch about war crimes haven’t read the conventions or laws of war.
@@McGriddy51095 yes i understand that and i know it would be silly to not shoot a civilian fighting back or attacking a hospital when your enemies are using it as a base but what about the untold massacres that happed, do you really think that America would list thier crimes and put their soldiers in threat? I'm talking about all the civilians that lost their lives unjustifiably and can't even punish their killers because thay would just say it didn't happen, don't forget that the invasion happened because of "weapons of mass destruction" That didn't even exist, just to be clear I'm not here to just argue, i want to share the voice of my people that couldn't be heard before and i wish that no one have to go through what we've been through, have a nice day
@@mostfa1158 history doesn’t work like that here. There is a massive difference between America, where I can read about our crimes, and places like, say, China where you can’t because the government makes sure you can’t. Foreigners seem to think our government somehow scrubs all info of our war crimes from the internet, that’s not how it is. For those who are interested we can find our crimes. Also gas is considered a weapon of mass destruction and considering over a hundred thousand Iranians suffered the effects of mustard gas it was safe to assume iraq had WMDs. When the uninformed mention "there were no WMDs" they always forget biological and chemical weapons count.
Cause only America got away with war crimes that signed the geneva convention right? we're just gonna gloss over France in north africa, Belgium in the congo, British in the Falklands, Spanish in Morocco.
They didn't even bother to drop some WMDs there after all was done They just said "Yeah, we say they have WMDs so we need to invade them. For democracy and freedom and safety" and then went "oopsie, guess it was never there, lmao"
@@C-Farsene_5 Stop trying to move the goalpost. OP made a claim. Someone came and refuted it. That’s about it’s “Butttt buttt buttt….what about who funded it…” Is a cowards way of not accepting facts. Stop trying to push a narrative at every step you turn.
You kids just love to throw around that word “genocide” whenever you need to manipulate a narrative. Grow up. Using words where they don’t work only diminishes the meaning of the word. Case in point: A “not see” used to be someone who was horrible and had a broken ideology. Now…all you have to do is disagree with someone about music, and they call you a “not see”. Don’t throw around exaggerated rhetoric just to try and make your point. If you can’t make your point while being factual…you likely don’t have a point to begin with. Grow up. Be factual…or else be nothing at all.
@@sendthis9480 You guys definitely supported the most ruthless dictators known to man as long as they were your puppets. Case and point Republic of Congo during the cold war, 1 of many examples.
@@williamwilson4162 womp womp that’s how war goes, grow up, destroying utilities is military strategy 101, cutting off peoples supply lines and forcing them to retreat.
So? Life is life. I hate when people put more value on the life of one over the other. Even if the men were military, that doesn't somehow make their loss less tragic.
Well you see this is why instead of using all guided weapons such as the GBU 12 and even earlier systems, as said in the video 90% of bombs dropped were conventional, and used MCLOS or SCLOS for guidance.
Laser guided bombs were around earlier than that, RAF harriers used laser guided bombs in the Falklands in 82. I imagine us used them in the late Vietnam war
as an iraqi that was born during the war i always asked my family members what was it like back then and it pains me how they’re still so traumatized by it. before the war started all iraqis were already just dead inside because the last years of saddam hussein’s reign were really hard and they couldn’t afford buying food because of the US sanctions against iraq so they had an infamous dish among all iraqis and it’s just bread dipped in hot water and salt and when the war began it became even worse my grandma had at least six panic attacks because of the horrifying sounds of war planes flying over our house and my father lost his friend who just had his first son and was the only provider for his family because of american air strikes and it still haunts my father to this day and on top of that we heard many stories of what american soliders did to the people in fallujah and how they tortured them with acids and what pains us even more is that our country is still very much corrupted by both iran and america. fuck george w bush for lying and fuck american soldiers who think raping iraqi girls and killing our men is justice
from a American dude, I'm disgusted and disgraced to be grouped in with the "freedom" sadists that have ravaged every and any other land on earth for their own wicked gain. Please know thousands of us are deeply disturbed, horrified, aware and disgusted by the war crimes and evil acts done by a select few. We shouldn't have even gone over there, and above all we should not have hurt innocent, good people. I'm burdened by this video.
Assange has never been convicted for sexual assault. Nor copy right infringement. He publised details of war crimes committed during the invasion of Iraq. He is currently held in a category A prison, Belmarsh, WITHOUT TRIAL for five years. This is in Britain. Look it up.
@@Rutherfordium2023 I doubt America would have cared if oil were not involved. If it's not about getting oil or fighting socialism/the USSR (back before it ended, anyway) then the U.S. generally hasn't been all that invested since WWII. We've overthrown a democratically-elected, functional govt. just because a FRUIT COMPANY wanted us to. We've overthrown multiple govts. in the middle east, only to leave the countries unstable and end up being taken over by worse govts, just because the former govt. wasn't friendly enough towards us and our desire for oil, and we've done little to intervene in a whole series of genocides around the world. We're not the world's heroes. You think we're siding with Ukraine, the underdog, vrs. Russia, solely because they deserve it? (I mean yes, of course they do in my personal opinion.) But I bet that to our govt. stopping Putin from building a new Russian empire is the main motivator. I think that IS a worthy goal. But it's not entirely altruistic, either. I think on a national level we care more about the long term effects for ourselves than all the unnecessary suffering and loss of freedom and rights Russia will cause if they aren't stopped now. Govts., like kings, are often not nice people. Even in WWII we weren't angels. We deliberately provoked Japan to war, or at least the president at the time did, and chose to sacrifice Pearl Harbor and it's men as the most obvious target for the goal of getting our war-averse population motivated to support entering the war and give us just cause. I'm not saying we shouldn't have- Germany needed to be stopped and their goals for us were just as bad as the goals towards the Slavs and others they viewed as beneath them. But we're not necessarily entirely nice guys even when we're doing what honestly needs to be done, and most of the time that's not even what we're doing.
Conclusion: Rich people should fight their own war that they profit from and leave the rest of us out of it. Idea: Maybe they could sell tickets. Make their war even more profitable.
So let me get this straight: Iraqi occupation of Kuwait was so brutal it had to be stopped by whatever means, and the occupation in Palestine today is nothing of the sort??? SMDH
Unfortunately, for the Palestinians and citizens of Gaza, the current subjugation and military control by the IDF were triggered by the ruling faction of Gaza, Hamas. If you believe 10/7/23 was a lie, I encourage you to watch the disturbing videos to get a real grip on the reality of our world.
@@frosty_shiba4311 I addressed the terror thing in my other response to the other gentleman. The first and second gulf wars were about American greed. Of oil. What about Nicaragua in the 80s? How many governments have the US tampered with to ensure American interests and values are maintained far from home?
@@amoreland1983 the second gulf war was not justified, and was in fact greed, however the first was a direct result of Saddam Hussein plundering kuwait
I met military people on the way for their tour in Iraq and not only they count understand that, but they had dehumanised the enemy as well (its not a war crime if its not on humans after all)
@@henben9215 you sound brainwashed, you are spouting exactly want the government wants you to. Dont think for yourself. Blame who our country tells you to.
Its disturbing how one of the most cruel country in history was never held accountable and the civilian population still lives in their bubble and think America is the greatest country ever. Just so sad
Not most civilians. Media always back wars - And our country profits off of them. If America was still a democracy, if our voices mattered that money would be invested back into all the communities that are severely lacking. Housing, health care… America is so broken while running around telling everyone else how to act 🤦♀️
My Dad and uncle both participated in the invasion. The old man on a sub and his brother on a tank crew, my uncle had half his face melted off and saw things I could never repeat on here, he drank jack daniels out the bottle with a straw until the day he died
@@oneballwizard406 every government must be accused for every casualty ( the one that declared war ) cuz if it did not these people would have stayed alive and I'm holding my hate against every single western government and their military, and why ? history speaks even though they won , still some brutalities are here imagine, what would the truth look like ?
@@oneballwizard406No one even mentioned crying where’d you get that from? And you can blame your country for doing that to your uncle as the other person wrote as well
Probably not much. No one much cares about the extreme atrocities perpetrated during the Thirty Years' War, for example. If there is any sort of academia left in 500 years, who knows, they might publish some scathing journal articles or write some books; if the alumni of intelligentsia reverts to the church (whatever that may mean in half a millennium), there might be some moralizing tales. The common people will forget except for the generational trauma which, unconsciously remembered, cannot be forgotten -- but that's been going on for tens of thousands of years, nothing new.
Yeah not much. This stuff has been a constant throughout history and it’s hard to imagine that it won’t remain a constant. Look at the various conflicts that are going on around the world presently. Desert Storm casualties don’t compare to present day. In 500 years there will have been many many more conflicts. Presently it would be difficult to think too much about a rather small British conflict 500 years ago when there’s been multiple world wars in the meantime
Was welcomed into an elders home one day. We were asking if he had seen any Iraqi soldiers around the area. While he was talking to the translator, I noticed a little boy around 8 years old with a busted up face and no front teeth. I asked why he looked like that. The elder said that they are Houthis and the Iraqi soldiers came and raided them when they noticed there were no young women they took the young grandson of the elder. Beat him up, knocked his teeth out, and forced him to give bjs to them. War on both sides is ugly. War is never right or cool.
Dr Kelly was a British weapons inspector. He knew there was NO weapons of mass destruction. The whole premise for UK and USA invading Iraq in order to steal their oil and sell lots of bombs etc.
@@cainmathewson1857 Dr. David Kelly was a British scientist at the time of the Second Gulf War. He knew 100% definitely that Iraq had no WMDs. He was sacked and intimidated. Then he was discovered to have committed "suicide" under circumstances which made no sense. The conspiracy theory / truthful insight is that Kelly's "suicide" was a murder to shut him up.
Much of this was at the behest of Netanyahu and Isreal. When will we learn? I feel very sorry for the innocent civilians killed and injured. Millions of lives never the same again.
@@KalashVodka175look up the clean brake memo. Look who wrote it and for what. And notice it goes hand in hand with every middle eastern war that's happened until now with Iran being next
@@1985_Honda_CRX_Si Pretty much, I keep saying it, they don't like us, then when they start throwing tantrums and shooting, and blowing each other up, let em duke it out themselves. Don't save them. We spend more on foreign countries civilian populace and militaries than we do our own.
my father was in desert storm, as a marine. He only knew what he was really fighting for years later, but the corps broke his mind, and he feels the affects to this day. I feel so bad that this happened at all.
Iraq had large armed forces built up over the Iran conflict,NATO was simply too strong having been prepared for a western conflict. They just changed camouflage and got to work with how they would've fought in Europe.
Our life was great till USA started this war and destroyed everything and millions died some from my family lost house jobs and same family now each of us in different countries why it's happined where i live now i never feel it's my country because i miss my country..
@@frosty_shiba4311 Well, Kuwait is on Iraq's border right next to each other, they used to be the same territority before British borders. America had no business fighting a war on the other side of the world.
The fact that the US-led Coalition essentially paralyzed all of Iraq should've made it obvious that Iraqis would violently resist another US invasion, even if it did depose their dictatorial regime. Saddam Hussein may have been horrible, but the Ba'athists weren't the one's destroying Iraq's infrastructure or bombing civilians. The same thing is happening in Gaza with Israel's indiscriminate bombing. Most Gazans alive today didn't vote for Hamas and Hamas isnt bombing schools, houses, refugee canps, and aid stations; Israel is. The same happened in Vietnam, Korea, and Lebanon and the Soviet-Afghan war too, but powerful countries are seemingly incapable of learning this incredibly simple lesson
America holding the moral high ground but they're more than willing to commit just as many crimes as another country if given the opportunity. Like Tony Soprano said "If you can quote the rules, you can obey them."
Btw most of the damage was because of the Embargo that followed for 13 years the thing is rebuilding need materials that must be exported and no exporting was allowed even for simplest things like cars parts , food , medications which all leaded for starvation infestations and we still suffer from electricity til this day because the government back then couldn't repair it completely and after that the invasion of 2003 came and destroyed it even more which will require more money to be repaired also another thing that I hate about that war was using uranium contained weapons which resulted in many rare diseases and deformaties and increased cancer rates not for Iraq only but also for many neighbor countries including Kuwait itself
Yes, the civilians that were affected by this was tragic, but the war would’ve never started if Saddam never invaded Kuwait. You could even argue what Saddam did to his own people was far worse and even blame him for making his people go through this because of this actions than what the US and it’s allies did prior to Desert Storm. Even after watching this video I still firmly believe that Operation Desert Storm and the tactics used to win was the last justifiable war the US partook in. In short, War is hell and there’s always a price to pay no matter who partakes in it.
@@Cowboycomando54 yeah i never really understood that. why would you let your enemy retreat (with no mentioning of surrendering btw) into a more defensible position to cause more damage to your own forces? on top of that its been proven that the civilian cars you see are cars stolen by iraqi soldiers who also stole other stuff from the Kuwaitis
As an Iraqi, I was not born during that period.. but my mother told me how she and her family used to hide in their house where the windows were closed and there were no lights (they used lanterns, there was no electricity) so that the American planes or American soldiers would not notice them and bomb them...
@KompadoodleLEL I am happy to hear that, but my family can be considered "lucky" if you compare it to others. But the United States is not the enemy anymore, it is the terrorists, the Iranian militias and the corrupt government. As an Iraqi, we do not really have many rights, especially when it comes to freedom and the basic necessities of life, and the situation has become even worse after the Israeli war on Hamas. I hope that we will be able to demand rights and freedoms by establishing a "secular" system soon.
@@KompadoodleLEL I am happy to hear that, but my family can be considered "lucky" if you compare it to others. But the United States is not the enemy anymore, it is the terrorists, the Iranian militias and the corrupt government. As an Iraqi, we do not really have many rights, especially when it comes to freedom and the basic necessities of life, and the situation has become even worse after the Israeli war on Hamas. I hope that we will be able to demand rights and freedoms by establishing a "secular" system soon.
I am happy to hear that, but my family can be considered "lucky" if you compare it to others. But the enemy is no longer the United States, but the ter"""'rori"""'sts, the Iranian militias, and the corrupt government. As Iraqis, we do not have many rights, especially when it comes to freedom and basic necessities of life, and the situation has become worse after the Israeli war on Hamas. I hope that we will be able to demand rights and freedoms by establishing a "secular" system soon.
I am happy to hear that, but my family can be considered "lucky" if you compare it to others. But the ene@my is no longer the United States, but the ter""""rori""""sts, the Iranian mi"""liti"""as, and the corrupt government. As Iraqis, we do not have many rights, especially when it comes to freedom and basic necessities of life, and the situation has become worse after the Israeli war on Hamas. I hope that we will be able to demand rights and freedoms by establishing a "secular" system soon.
Your last question would be a yes by nearly everyone citizen in Kuwait (which it invaded and occupied) and Saudi Arabia (Iraq was massing troops on the Saudi border and actually crossed the border and to try to take the town of Khafji). You should study the reasons for the war (beyond the Western point of view that it was only about oil). Saddam just a few years prior to this war tried to take over Iran. He just took over Kuwait and was positioned to invade Saudi Arabia. Are you suggesting we should have allowed that to happen?
@@angelaferkel7922 You can argue the subsequent 2003 invasion of Iraq over supposed WMDs and Saddam's supposed ties with terrorism led to millions of people dying prematurely. But, the Gulf War of 1991 did not cause millions of deaths.
@@okisoba im not saying that those millions were all killed directly by the bombs but millions died over long time from the consequences of the war and from the very ruthless targeting of infrastructure, water, power systems (the supposed weapons manufacturers) that lead to so many deaths by infections, starvation, lack of medical care or any other care. The west always downplays the actual numbers of the civilian casualties so to be realistic, the actual number of civilian deaths caused by the war, went into the millions
Right, except it's not us making the mistakes, it's the puppet-masters. And they repeat their mistakes because it helps their plans for the New World Order.
@@test-ot1fz Agree it wasn't a mistake. But not everyone knows that. It really gets me that a lot of people still think these people are "dumb" or "untrained" etc.
I was in Iraq in 2003 and there was damage from the bombings but Saddam didn't care about fixing it up. Instead he just cared about making sure his homes were nice. And we found schools and hospitals that were undamaged but they were completely empty of any equipment and stacked full of weapons that he had bought from other countries to fight against Iran.
USA's war crimes is something that's peaked my interest for a while now, every time I hear "thank you for your service" I just can't help but think of innocent people being killed. 0:01
The truth is that there is no war in history where "war crimes" haven't been commited. but compared to the soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Russian invasion of Chechnya, they are relatively tame.
@@Calabrooobrother at the end of the day, this video is incredibly misleading. Every country commits warcrimes. Whether that be in a defensive or offensive war, war is hell and the laws that define what is a war crime and what is not is very rigid. War is one man killing another for survival, the most primal situation someone can find themself in. Imo, saddam got what he deserved look at his and his sons crimes against their own people, sadly the cost of the iraqi people paid for his sins were greater.
i can completely understand the media's disgust at the incredible civilian casualties that where largely entirely avoidable. but incidents like highway 80 or the Har river crossing shouldn't be considered war crimes. and that's not to say that the response from the coalition forces was justified or proportionate however if a rocket propelled grenade is fired at you in what logical circumstance would you just sit there and think " huh they want to surrender guys lets not kill them " and not to mention these US soldiers would have probably been fucking riddled with PTSD and firing any sort of weapon in there direction is effectively a suicide pill for their entire column let alone *A FUCKING RPG*.
War crimes are not excluded from people like you and Western countries. We have all seen what the Germans did to the Jews and what the Russians did to German women. What did the Americans do in Japan, Vietnam and Iraq? The simplest example today is the amount of Western support for Israel’s crimes by deliberately targeting children and women in Palestine.
The media has been a lot of the problem during war time. Look at them now, not a shred of decency, intellect or integrity in the bulk of mainstream media reporting… they’re parasites!
Highway of death is probably not a war crime but its fucked up in the sense that most of those guys would have surrendered if they could, but you can’t surrender to aircrafts bombing you from high up. So they were stuck in a situation where they were almost guaranteed to die without any hope of living another day
@@KalashVodka175 yeah defiantly but war is war. Say for example the US had been on that road and it was the Iraqi 'air force' bombing them, do you think the result would have been any different? (aside from the su22m3s and m4s used by the Iraqi air force being less technologically advanced). regardless it was indeed insane overkill and partially unnecessary, but a retreating army is still a combat capable army and in this case with fairly large numbers of t55s, BMP's and even some t72s.
@@minesalty I agree. War is hell. I don’t blame those who bombed those guys but I can’t help but feel bad if only because its very easy for the inverse situation to be happening (your countrymen getting bombed instead of their countrymen)
This was a great educational video that was easy to follow due to the animation. Thank you. But damn this also made me sad and angry. Civilians always pay the price, I wish all wars could end.
Iraq also agreed to a Soviet negotiated ceasefire and began leaving Kuwait in February but the us continued the war. And the war started because Kuwait violated Opac agreements and refused to face accountability while no one did anything to pressure Kuwait.
I'll bet you 99% of Americans think Iraq invaded Kuwait because "Saddam was evil". And almost no one knows about Kuwait steaking Iraqi oil and intentionally dumping it on the market trying to crash Iraqi's economy.
the justification used by the Iraqi's for the invasion wasn't about Opec agreements but through claims that they were drilling at an angle into Iraq, and even this is shaky because Iraqi's have come forth and stated that Saddam was already planning for an invasion much earlier than the accusations of angle drilling came out
I always say this. There is no “fairness” in war. It’s wild how soldiers are allegedly suppose to follow the rules of war when the other side won’t lmao. Every country commits war crimes, what matters is how powerful the country is that did it
@@AnshumanMishra-s1d Bro they were SOLDIERS riding in TANKS and ARMORED VEHICLES. Just because they were retreating doesn’t automatically make them immune to being engaged. The bombings of civilian structures during the war was pretty awful and should be condemned, but this was just a lopsided military engagement
I'm not sure if stray bombs or defending yourself against attack constitutes war crimes. What the video doesn't show is that the suffering of Iraqi civilians during 'Desert Storm' was but a drop in the ocean compared to the civilian suffering inflicted by the brutal Saddam Hussein regime.
It’s crazy how America always manages to be the good guys isn’t it? It’s also crazy that we just happen to find all the “monsters” of the world and come out on top time and time again. Sure makes it easy to go to war with third world nations when you’re fighting against evil, right?!
The greater part of the world knows this, but since decorated veteran army grunt Billy Bob and his wife Marge have eaten the Red White and Blue pie all their life, they truly believe the rest of the world is nothing more than a barbaric horde, which would be worse off without their intervention. To them we are all Commie sympathizers or religious zealots....."why do they hate us?"
Australians participated in naval bombardments and provided infantry support for two reason 1. They are spineless cowards who do whatever the US tells them 2. They had strategic (oil) assets in the Gulf. Shame on you. From an American physician.
What a great advert for this video, youre right. We should see both sides of the political spectrum when it comes to commiting war crimes. Because afterall, one side might not say theyre war crimes!
List of the countries bombed and/or invaded by the United States from the end of the Second World War to 2020: Afghanistan 1998, 2001- Bosnia-Herzegovina 1994-1995 Cambodia 1969-1970 China 1945-1946 Congo 1864 Cuba 1959-1961 El Salvador 1980s Korea 1950-53 Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69 Indonesia 1958 Laos 1964-1973 Grenada 1983 Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015- Iran 1987 Korea 1950-53 Kuwait 1991 Lebanon 1983, 1984 Libya 1986, 2011- Nicaragua 1980s Pakistan 2003, 2006- Palestine 2010 Panama 1989 Peru 1965 Somalia 1993, 2007-08, 2010- Sudan 1998 Syria 2014- Vietnam 1961-73 Yemen 2002, 2009- Yugoslavia 1999 Not to mention the billions of American tax dollars Israel receives in the war of Gaza with more than 40.000 dead civilians. US: the greatest terrorist on earth.
Yeah seems israel has taken the entrire playbook from the USA ok how to commit crimes against humanity. And all this under the protective bossom of the good ol us or a where freedom and democracy comes with a helluva lot of asterisks.
What's crazy is, this was one of the "good wars" like WW2 where there's a clear good guy and bad guy. Saddam invaded Kuwait and if you're reading this, there's a good chance your country helped the U.S. There are few times the world has justified a war as much as the Gulf war. Yet despite that, there were still war crimes. It just goes to show no matter what, there will always be innocent collateral damage. Any war will always come with innocent people dying.
Being American (like myself) was a gut-wrenching disappointment, as of Today: Dream is NOT the word that I’m endured of American is a delusional. I’ve realized that every war for centuries is a bloodbath. This is my reality, when I kid, I was didn’t knew much of the world and I was dumbfounded to thought to be myself like: “USA is a good country, best cities, best places, cars, weapons, best government, yippee: parades, love, pride, patriot, and freedom.” But now I’ve realize, As I was now a young adult; I’ve knew the America wasn’t not my approval for this, if I Gen’-Z, even I was, people would haunt with tragedies like the Columbine and 9/11 attacks, while others is about war, Media, was about modernity and a grim results of ideological, political, religion and the INTERNET. Gulf War is one of the bloodbath, worse than ‘Highway of Hell.’ in a post-Iraq war.🤦🏿♂️
America: **destabilizes multiple countries and installs petty dictators** **invades multiple countries for resources** Also US: why do so many countries hate us?
Thank you for covering the atrocities committed by my Government and Elite upon the Iraqi people. Also please make a video covering the Iraqi government atrocities in the Iran-Iraq war as a sorta prequel please.
Atrocities would be purposely committed, and this was not an "atrocity" I hate how loose that word is being used. It was carelessness and a sense of just trying to get the war over with, that's why casualties in these were so low. They didn't ALWAYS target civilians and in many cases they were marshaled for the killing of civilians
iran was trying to steal an entire town that’s very important to our economy from basrah what did u expect iraq to do? and iran did far worse to us than what we did we were only trying to protect our land and people while your country invaded us for no fucking reason and tortured iraqis in prisons
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this video will be secretly banned by RUclips. you see you can talk about atrocities committed by Russia or China or Iran or the Nazis etc but when you start to really get around to covering western crimes of the 21st century like Iraq then that is a Big no-no. maybe next time do a western sanctioned crimes narrative like uighurs if you want your channel to survive. doing a non sanctioned western narrative like the erassure of a certain group of people in Palestine actively supported by the USA that's a big no-no.
I LOVE groundnews, i wish they covered more of news from my country (India) though.
And thank you for the video.
Please do video on current anti-semetic and anti-Orthodox Christian genocide on going in east africa /Ethiopia
How about Syria, Yemen? Or all other conflict in the region? How many civilian died in those civil wars ?
The Highway of Death is not a war crime. Retreating forces are still considered active combatants by the Geneva Conventions.
You can imagine the things you hear, now imagine the things you don't hear...........
If any one country had the ability to keep you from hearing about things… it’s the US.
@@ryv2484 Actually it is the opposite, as the US has free media.
There are nations were all information is controlled...
@@davidhollenshead4892 lol what a silly notion
@@ryv2484 it’s true imagine being in North Korea you wouldn’t even have a video like this
@@Lala1028W we are closer to getting there than you know
Truth is the first casualty of war.
Truer words have never been spoken
Bro thinks he’s in BO6😭🙏
That’s fucken deep
@@lisarawijekoon5005 MW3
@@lisarawijekoon5005that line has been in several of the old cod games when you die
This really drives home the other side of the story. There's always 3 sides: one side, the other side and the truth.
That's usually what people say when they don't believe you. Like when you tell old classmates that you were raped back in HS, and it was by group coordination among bullies.
There's only truth and lies, hon. That makes two sides, not three.
@@carolinematusevich889Tks for your reply but I do believe what's being said. Before that, I was on the U.S. side but only bc I hadn't heard this.War is complicated and I'm pretty sure there's truth and lies on both sides. So to find the truth, one would have to do a deep dive. What's your opinion on what the truth really is?
The thing is, there is no such thing as truth. We can never 100% know everything that happens or 100% know exactly what happened. That's the scary thing, there are these small details that neither side is able to verify.
@@y0h0p38Well said. The only Real Truth I know is the Truth in Jesus Christ. Other than that, it's a quagmire.
Thank you for this refreshing comment of stunning accuracy
Ya cant blame the Iraqi citizens for disliking the US and Coalition countries! This war was a stain on both Bushs legacy
Yet they both got away scot free and richer.
How about Syria and Yemen ?
@ps3301 What about them?
You're comparing apples to asteroids, buddy.
@@carolinematusevich889fr only similarity is they’re in the middle east😂
Period 💯💯💯💯
“They hate us because our freedom” yeah it has nothing to do with our hypocrisy and war crimes against civilians and our constant meddling in their affairs.
Exactly!
We wouldn’t have to meddle in their affairs if they were stop killing each other
@@Germain-ys8zztypical white savior complex, did you enslave africa to stop them killing each other too?
@@Germain-ys8zz Yeah, that's exactly what we go to war for.. To stop them from killing each other. Good observation.
@@Germain-ys8zz Keep telling yourself that 😂
As a combat veteran, I’m disgusted by the war crimes the US commits against innocent civilians. A reality nobody talks about. How about we let other countries be? Took me a while to understand that we do not fight for “liberty and freedom”. We fight for oil and special interest.
This is exactly why, despite having numerous family in the service, I never joined despite wishing I could go to Afghanistan after 911(I was a young teen). I decided to stay the school route while keeping an eye on the news. Iraq '03 was nothing more than our generation's modern 'Vietnam'. We were a nation still reeling from the events, and our government took advantage.
Also, I hope you've found some form of peace in life. Sorry, friend :/
@@iamjacksennuithank you for your service. Glad people like you stayed out.
Just want you you know WE know you served as honorably as possible in a dishonorable war. Thank you for your insight.
We fight for AIPAC.
I salutes you sir. There is Just TOO MUCH evidence
“Its only a war crime if you lose”
It's only a "quick liberation operation for freedom and democracy" if you win
This is so true.
Well you know what they say
History is written by the victors
But that doesn't mean the victors are innocent in War
Especially when it comes to War crimes
Nope. On both sides a lot of people are held accountable for their war crimes in almost every conflict. A lot slips thru the cracks, but people are definitely held accountable. Its a difference between people in the field being convicted war criminals, and entire countries
@@gmoder100The only people held accountable are the ground troops. The old men who start the wars always get away scot-free. And rich.
It’s always the civilians who suffer the most😢😞
war is hell
Be good people, if enough people show kindness and determination the world will reach peace one day, I hold onto hope.
You have obviously never talk to a prisoner of war.
@@frosty_shiba4311and we made it all by ourselves
blame the united states
YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT AMERICAN SOLDIERS DID TO FELLOW SOLDIERS WHO WHERE WHISTLEBLOWERS!
Alright. Show the class then
@@lboston4660 like Class of 04 ? Cuz I’m not Judging anybody who conducted themselves professionally, I’m Just saying it was *WIDE OPEN*
@@lboston4660I mean they blew Pat Tillman’s brains out for his critical views of the war lol
@@nano-pw3th Ah, so let's cower in fear and not talk about it then? Lol little sheep. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
What’d they do
"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster." William Tecumseh Sherman
of course he would know, he was a war criminal too.
Oh and dont forget
Makes it safer for our soilder. Just not for the enemy then again it wasnt our plan make it safe for them
@@silverbloodborne9495 Nothing makes anything safer for a soldier except not being there in the first place.
@@WarBoy629no
@@WarBoy629no he wasn’t.
What is the point of the geneva convention laws at this point, if your country is strong or your name is America you can just deni the crimes and no one can do a thing about it, as an iraqi my self i can assure you that the damage they did hasn't been fixed to this day
The Geneva conventions are guidelines that tie in to the laws of war. For instance under the laws of war if a civilian is by a target and the target is deemed more important the civilian can just be written off as collateral to strike the target, or if insurgents use a hospital or school as a base it is no longer covered by Geneva. And if a civilian picks up a weapon they are considered a unlawful combatant by Geneva and are therefore not covered by the conventions and can be killed. Most people who bitch about war crimes haven’t read the conventions or laws of war.
@@McGriddy51095 yes i understand that and i know it would be silly to not shoot a civilian fighting back or attacking a hospital when your enemies are using it as a base but what about the untold massacres that happed, do you really think that America would list thier crimes and put their soldiers in threat? I'm talking about all the civilians that lost their lives unjustifiably and can't even punish their killers because thay would just say it didn't happen, don't forget that the invasion happened because of "weapons of mass destruction" That didn't even exist, just to be clear I'm not here to just argue, i want to share the voice of my people that couldn't be heard before and i wish that no one have to go through what we've been through, have a nice day
@@mostfa1158 history doesn’t work like that here. There is a massive difference between America, where I can read about our crimes, and places like, say, China where you can’t because the government makes sure you can’t. Foreigners seem to think our government somehow scrubs all info of our war crimes from the internet, that’s not how it is. For those who are interested we can find our crimes. Also gas is considered a weapon of mass destruction and considering over a hundred thousand Iranians suffered the effects of mustard gas it was safe to assume iraq had WMDs. When the uninformed mention "there were no WMDs" they always forget biological and chemical weapons count.
@@McGriddy51095thankyou!!!
Cause only America got away with war crimes that signed the geneva convention right? we're just gonna gloss over France in north africa, Belgium in the congo, British in the Falklands, Spanish in Morocco.
You know the funniest part about "finding" chemical weapons in Iraq?? Back when Saddam was our butt buddy, the US gave it to him in the 1st place
no they developed it
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356honestly it was kinda both
Hogwash! French and Germans gave them the technologies. Not Americans!
Hogwash! It was French and Germans who gave them technology. Not weapons!
No they didn’t. That’s just the cliche rhetoric people use to manipulate a narrative.
They didn’t “train Al Qaeda” either.
Grow up.
They didn't even bother to drop some WMDs there after all was done
They just said "Yeah, we say they have WMDs so we need to invade them. For democracy and freedom and safety" and then went "oopsie, guess it was never there, lmao"
It was there during Desert storm. You're referring to the war later. They were there during Desert Storm I saw one of the stock piles of them.
@@garydillingham4563 and who funded their creation and use?
@@C-Farsene_5
Stop trying to move the goalpost.
OP made a claim. Someone came and refuted it.
That’s about it’s
“Butttt buttt buttt….what about who funded it…”
Is a cowards way of not accepting facts.
Stop trying to push a narrative at every step you turn.
Out of all of the pieces of military hardware we captured. I never seen any of it that was from the USA.
@@garydillingham4563 You are smoking crack
Our country cry’s about 911 but won’t even mention a fraction of the civilians we killed
Yes we should'nt mind that the us actually supported genocides and coups during the cold war and war crimes in iraq and afghanistan
You kids just love to throw around that word “genocide” whenever you need to manipulate a narrative.
Grow up.
Using words where they don’t work only diminishes the meaning of the word.
Case in point:
A “not see” used to be someone who was horrible and had a broken ideology.
Now…all you have to do is disagree with someone about music, and they call you a “not see”.
Don’t throw around exaggerated rhetoric just to try and make your point.
If you can’t make your point while being factual…you likely don’t have a point to begin with.
Grow up.
Be factual…or else be nothing at all.
Genocides? And let’s be real here, the stuff Saddam did was horrific. I bet you support the women and children raping Taliban don’t you?
@@sendthis9480 You guys definitely supported the most ruthless dictators known to man as long as they were your puppets. Case and point Republic of Congo during the cold war, 1 of many examples.
@@travisj9307USA and China funded Pol Pot
They still do
They claimed at the time that they were not making war on the Iraqi People but systimaticaly destroyed all of their utilities infrastructure.
This is because destroying a countries infrastructure is waging war on the country, not the people.
@@Rutherfordium2023And? The country then becomes a 3rd world country because of economic crashes and poor economy, I'm Iraqi myself
@@CTzonsthey need to be held accountable
Sounds familiar to what theyre doing again today in pal3st1ne
@@williamwilson4162 womp womp that’s how war goes, grow up, destroying utilities is military strategy 101, cutting off peoples supply lines and forcing them to retreat.
Al-Amirya shelter had approximately 700 victims, less than 12 were men. I remember the scenes on TV and the pictures of children and mothers.
That’s sickening, and the people who did it 100% knew it was filled with children and mothers
So, you're saying that women and children are worth more than men? Every civilian death is a tragedy, no matter the age or gender.
@@37Kilo2they aren’t combatants
So? Life is life. I hate when people put more value on the life of one over the other. Even if the men were military, that doesn't somehow make their loss less tragic.
@ ok, thats not the point being made here
I can just taste the "freedom"
Damn this freedom be tasting kinda spicy tho
This freedom tastes hella good
This freedom taste like a nostalgic winter morning in 2017
Tastes like iron
Tastes like lead
Relying on laser guided weapon systems in the very early 90's is insane, when they weren't even able to build a cordless joystick until 2006..
Well you see this is why instead of using all guided weapons such as the GBU 12 and even earlier systems, as said in the video 90% of bombs dropped were conventional, and used MCLOS or SCLOS for guidance.
2003? Acclaim Remote and a few other products was a thing in the late 80's
Military tech is far ahead. You plebs get it last decades later.
The military always had technology ahead of consumer electronics.
Laser guided bombs were around earlier than that, RAF harriers used laser guided bombs in the Falklands in 82. I imagine us used them in the late Vietnam war
as an iraqi that was born during the war i always asked my family members what was it like back then and it pains me how they’re still so traumatized by it. before the war started all iraqis were already just dead inside because the last years of saddam hussein’s reign were really hard and they couldn’t afford buying food because of the US sanctions against iraq so they had an infamous dish among all iraqis and it’s just bread dipped in hot water and salt and when the war began it became even worse my grandma had at least six panic attacks because of the horrifying sounds of war planes flying over our house and my father lost his friend who just had his first son and was the only provider for his family because of american air strikes and it still haunts my father to this day and on top of that we heard many stories of what american soliders did to the people in fallujah and how they tortured them with acids and what pains us even more is that our country is still very much corrupted by both iran and america. fuck george w bush for lying and fuck american soldiers who think raping iraqi girls and killing our men is justice
from a American dude, I'm disgusted and disgraced to be grouped in with the "freedom" sadists that have ravaged every and any other land on earth for their own wicked gain. Please know thousands of us are deeply disturbed, horrified, aware and disgusted by the war crimes and evil acts done by a select few. We shouldn't have even gone over there, and above all we should not have hurt innocent, good people. I'm burdened by this video.
Free Julian Assange
Why he commited lots of fraudlent crimes, copyright infringment, and Sexaul assault. What does he have to do with Iraq?
Why he commited lots of fradulent crimes, copyright infringment and more and what does he have to do with the Iraq War
Assange has never been convicted for sexual assault. Nor copy right infringement. He publised details of war crimes committed during the invasion of Iraq. He is currently held in a category A prison, Belmarsh, WITHOUT TRIAL for five years. This is in Britain. Look it up.
@@C.O.B.R.A.-tu9dl nope assange is innocent. swedish gov dropped the charges.
@@deadguy1440 well maybe Sexaul assualt but everything else
A lot of similarities to the current conflict on Gaza. The “accidental” bombing of key civilian infrastructure is insane
This is the democracy and freedom they promote
Yes, it is, desert storm happened because Iraq was invading and trying to annex Kuwait.
@@Rutherfordium2023 I doubt America would have cared if oil were not involved. If it's not about getting oil or fighting socialism/the USSR (back before it ended, anyway) then the U.S. generally hasn't been all that invested since WWII. We've overthrown a democratically-elected, functional govt. just because a FRUIT COMPANY wanted us to. We've overthrown multiple govts. in the middle east, only to leave the countries unstable and end up being taken over by worse govts, just because the former govt. wasn't friendly enough towards us and our desire for oil, and we've done little to intervene in a whole series of genocides around the world. We're not the world's heroes. You think we're siding with Ukraine, the underdog, vrs. Russia, solely because they deserve it? (I mean yes, of course they do in my personal opinion.) But I bet that to our govt. stopping Putin from building a new Russian empire is the main motivator. I think that IS a worthy goal. But it's not entirely altruistic, either. I think on a national level we care more about the long term effects for ourselves than all the unnecessary suffering and loss of freedom and rights Russia will cause if they aren't stopped now. Govts., like kings, are often not nice people. Even in WWII we weren't angels. We deliberately provoked Japan to war, or at least the president at the time did, and chose to sacrifice Pearl Harbor and it's men as the most obvious target for the goal of getting our war-averse population motivated to support entering the war and give us just cause. I'm not saying we shouldn't have- Germany needed to be stopped and their goals for us were just as bad as the goals towards the Slavs and others they viewed as beneath them. But we're not necessarily entirely nice guys even when we're doing what honestly needs to be done, and most of the time that's not even what we're doing.
As an American this still impacts us so i can't even imagine how it's still effecting iraq
As long as I can still get my PlayStations and Big Macs, I’m fine.
@@DaxRandalman Well your big Mac will kill you...
@@Dustinman123 “impacting us” and it’s just people saying “America bad America bad”
@@StarsShatteredBeyond because America bad. Russia Bad. China bad. EU bad.
Conclusion: War is hell
Nope... US war crimes through the decades have been hell
average centrist
Conclusion: world superpowers are the devil. And yes, that includes China and Russia.
You mean based?
Conclusion: Rich people should fight their own war that they profit from and leave the rest of us out of it.
Idea: Maybe they could sell tickets. Make their war even more profitable.
So let me get this straight: Iraqi occupation of Kuwait was so brutal it had to be stopped by whatever means, and the occupation in Palestine today is nothing of the sort???
SMDH
Kuwait has oil. Palestine only has problems.
Unfortunately, for the Palestinians and citizens of Gaza, the current subjugation and military control by the IDF were triggered by the ruling faction of Gaza, Hamas. If you believe 10/7/23 was a lie, I encourage you to watch the disturbing videos to get a real grip on the reality of our world.
the invasion of kuwait was not triggered by a terror attack killing 1000 iraqis, but merely saddam hussein's greed
@@frosty_shiba4311 I addressed the terror thing in my other response to the other gentleman. The first and second gulf wars were about American greed. Of oil. What about Nicaragua in the 80s? How many governments have the US tampered with to ensure American interests and values are maintained far from home?
@@amoreland1983 the second gulf war was not justified, and was in fact greed, however the first was a direct result of Saddam Hussein plundering kuwait
I hope youtube doesn't shadow ban this video
It's only a war crime if you lose
Ha ha very funny. 🫥
I knew a guy who was recon in desert storm. Very few Americans have an idea of what actually went on over there. It’s chilling
Can see a lot of amaricans that think amarica cant commit war crimes
I met military people on the way for their tour in Iraq and not only they count understand that, but they had dehumanised the enemy as well (its not a war crime if its not on humans after all)
@@SahharBM you sound like you supported sadam Hussain regime🤡
The same goes for the people in your country, too.
@@carolinematusevich889 my country? And what is my country?
@@henben9215 you sound brainwashed, you are spouting exactly want the government wants you to. Dont think for yourself. Blame who our country tells you to.
Its disturbing how one of the most cruel country in history was never held accountable and the civilian population still lives in their bubble and think America is the greatest country ever. Just so sad
Finally an English narrator that doesnt elongate the end of every single sentence. Thank you for talking normally!
And we still believe that israel is talking the truth about palestine
Not most civilians. Media always back wars - And our country profits off of them. If America was still a democracy, if our voices mattered that money would be invested back into all the communities that are severely lacking. Housing, health care… America is so broken while running around telling everyone else how to act 🤦♀️
The west : WHY THEY HATE US ????
Yep, But still they literally kill people in 9/11 If they don't stop it it could getting worse.
Saddam after gassing Kurds and other minorities: WHY ARE THEY BOMBING ME?!!!
@@radiofreak66Should have attached him and his army not innocent civilians. Typical us behaviour
Cuz they ain't us
@@radiofreak66 maybe because the Kurds and Iranians were together and wanted to start a revolution in the middle east?
USA is that one kid on the playground, that hits other kids, and when they hit back he sets their house on fire...
And because he has a rich dad everybody lets him do it.
Israel could stand to learn a thing or two from the US. As tragic as the lives loss in Iraq. Israel currently has killed 50k+
Yep, I'm Iraqi and I condemn Israel as much as I do with the US
Nazis ^
Ironically. Israel is able to commit 50k+ kills because the US unconditionally sends them money
@@CTzons ISRAEL is legit saving lives🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Oliver-i7q7foooook that's controversial
My Dad and uncle both participated in the invasion. The old man on a sub and his brother on a tank crew, my uncle had half his face melted off and saw things I could never repeat on here, he drank jack daniels out the bottle with a straw until the day he died
blame your country for that
@SARMADRS28 that doesn't even make sense, explain. Nobodies cryin here
@@oneballwizard406 every government must be accused for every casualty ( the one that declared war ) cuz if it did not these people would have stayed alive
and I'm holding my hate against every single western government and their military, and why ? history speaks even though they won , still some brutalities are here
imagine, what would the truth look like ?
@@oneballwizard406No one even mentioned crying where’d you get that from? And you can blame your country for doing that to your uncle as the other person wrote as well
Blame your country you should see all those Iraqis that you guys killed and fucked up imagine how they are suffering even now
While the rest of the world looked in silence, I wonder what they're gonna think about us 500 years from now.
Probably not much. No one much cares about the extreme atrocities perpetrated during the Thirty Years' War, for example. If there is any sort of academia left in 500 years, who knows, they might publish some scathing journal articles or write some books; if the alumni of intelligentsia reverts to the church (whatever that may mean in half a millennium), there might be some moralizing tales. The common people will forget except for the generational trauma which, unconsciously remembered, cannot be forgotten -- but that's been going on for tens of thousands of years, nothing new.
Everyone in the world already hate you for this, so you don't need to wait 5 centuries for it since it's already happening
Yeah not much. This stuff has been a constant throughout history and it’s hard to imagine that it won’t remain a constant. Look at the various conflicts that are going on around the world presently. Desert Storm casualties don’t compare to present day. In 500 years there will have been many many more conflicts. Presently it would be difficult to think too much about a rather small British conflict 500 years ago when there’s been multiple world wars in the meantime
Who’s us?
Watching American kids grow up continuing the cycle of violence on innocent children and women in other countries
Was welcomed into an elders home one day. We were asking if he had seen any Iraqi soldiers around the area. While he was talking to the translator, I noticed a little boy around 8 years old with a busted up face and no front teeth. I asked why he looked like that. The elder said that they are Houthis and the Iraqi soldiers came and raided them when they noticed there were no young women they took the young grandson of the elder. Beat him up, knocked his teeth out, and forced him to give bjs to them. War on both sides is ugly. War is never right or cool.
This was so much worse then I could’ve imagined. I feel physically ill
I actually believe you because thats just too f’ed up to even make up
that is beyond fucked
That is super f_cked and this is coming from an Iraqi.
Really wish I hadn’t read this but damn that’s the reality of war and what happens when life is left to mean nothing
You can thank Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell for that.
And along with Keir Starmer they covered up the assignation of Dr David Kelly.
@@LunaSea2025 Eh Im not familiar with that one?
Dr Kelly was a British weapons inspector.
He knew there was NO weapons of mass destruction.
The whole premise for UK and USA invading Iraq in order to steal their oil and sell lots of bombs etc.
@@cainmathewson1857 Dr. David Kelly was a British scientist at the time of the Second Gulf War. He knew 100% definitely that Iraq had no WMDs. He was sacked and intimidated. Then he was discovered to have committed "suicide" under circumstances which made no sense. The conspiracy theory / truthful insight is that Kelly's "suicide" was a murder to shut him up.
this is the invasion of Kuwait, in the early 1990s. This was before Blair.
Man, I'm so glad we no longer do such horrible things to countries around the world..... oh.... wait
good one
Why are so many people mixing the gulf war and the 2003 war?
Because they are dumb
Both had Saddam and a Bush as President
@@hurricane7727tbf it was a different bush
Probably most comments from americans 😅
Much of this was at the behest of Netanyahu and Isreal. When will we learn? I feel very sorry for the innocent civilians killed and injured. Millions of lives never the same again.
Wait how? I’m not denying I just wanna know more of his involvement in this
"People who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it"
-Random wise person
😂😂😂
@@KalashVodka175look up the clean brake memo. Look who wrote it and for what. And notice it goes hand in hand with every middle eastern war that's happened until now with Iran being next
@@TheRandompainthe's not lying. Hows that funny
And then Americans wonder why they are disliked by the world.
then one whiff of trouble and theyre begging the USA for aid
@@1985_Honda_CRX_Silol pretty much
they can hate us, but everyone knows we’re the best
@@1985_Honda_CRX_Si Pretty much, I keep saying it, they don't like us, then when they start throwing tantrums and shooting, and blowing each other up, let em duke it out themselves. Don't save them. We spend more on foreign countries civilian populace and militaries than we do our own.
@@Upruslodoly’all are still horrible
@@Imastarintyejust as bad as the Iraqis gassing 200,000 Kurdish civilians in the 80s?
my father was in desert storm, as a marine. He only knew what he was really fighting for years later, but the corps broke his mind, and he feels the affects to this day. I feel so bad that this happened at all.
It isn’t a war crime if you win
This sounds more like a massacre than a war
Because it was. It’s like aliens fighting a tribe of natives.
Iraq had large armed forces built up over the Iran conflict,NATO was simply too strong having been prepared for a western conflict. They just changed camouflage and got to work with how they would've fought in Europe.
Very well done I have been asking how America has the nerve to say anything about war crimes untill we address the ones committed here in America
Everyone always says war should be a last resort but governments first question at any problem is if war will solve it
Our life was great till USA started this war and destroyed everything and millions died some from my family lost house jobs and same family now each of us in different countries why it's happined where i live now i never feel it's my country because i miss my country..
it wasnt great
to be fair you guys shouldn't have invaded kuwait
@@frosty_shiba4311 nor iran
@@frosty_shiba4311 Well, Kuwait is on Iraq's border right next to each other, they used to be the same territority before British borders. America had no business fighting a war on the other side of the world.
@@Rambo_A83 actually yes we do, same with every other nation that participated in desert storm
The fact that the US-led Coalition essentially paralyzed all of Iraq should've made it obvious that Iraqis would violently resist another US invasion, even if it did depose their dictatorial regime. Saddam Hussein may have been horrible, but the Ba'athists weren't the one's destroying Iraq's infrastructure or bombing civilians. The same thing is happening in Gaza with Israel's indiscriminate bombing. Most Gazans alive today didn't vote for Hamas and Hamas isnt bombing schools, houses, refugee canps, and aid stations; Israel is. The same happened in Vietnam, Korea, and Lebanon and the Soviet-Afghan war too, but powerful countries are seemingly incapable of learning this incredibly simple lesson
How can you relate the first gulf war to current Israel Palestine conflict lol. what kind of peanut brain do you have.
You did not mention of the coordinated efforts of the invaders to loot and destroy priceless archeological artifacts from the Iraqi museum
Wait What?!
you mean the looted objects from kuwait?
Indiana jones you mean? These artifacts were looted by iraqi locals and sold on the black market.
This was actually done by locals and these items were sold online to private collectors and museums
@@frosty_shiba4311 so youre saying US looted the loot from Kuwait and not giving them back
America holding the moral high ground but they're more than willing to commit just as many crimes as another country if given the opportunity.
Like Tony Soprano said "If you can quote the rules, you can obey them."
I'm convinced most of these bombings didn't mess their targets, and most likely the us intentionally targeted civilian shelters
Is this why our countries support Israel?
Its unanswered warecrimes. No Punishments are issued.
Btw most of the damage was because of the Embargo that followed for 13 years the thing is rebuilding need materials that must be exported and no exporting was allowed even for simplest things like cars parts , food , medications which all leaded for starvation infestations and we still suffer from electricity til this day because the government back then couldn't repair it completely and after that the invasion of 2003 came and destroyed it even more which will require more money to be repaired also another thing that I hate about that war was using uranium contained weapons which resulted in many rare diseases and deformaties and increased cancer rates not for Iraq only but also for many neighbor countries including Kuwait itself
Thank you so much for this video.
Yes, the civilians that were affected by this was tragic, but the war would’ve never started if Saddam never invaded Kuwait. You could even argue what Saddam did to his own people was far worse and even blame him for making his people go through this because of this actions than what the US and it’s allies did prior to Desert Storm. Even after watching this video I still firmly believe that Operation Desert Storm and the tactics used to win was the last justifiable war the US partook in. In short, War is hell and there’s always a price to pay no matter who partakes in it.
you got some nerve to talk about war is hell and some fucking price you never paid
This video is also perpetuating the lie that the Highway 80 strikes were a war crime when they were not.
@@Observa-kf4xj would saying war is sunshine and rainbows be better?
@@Cowboycomando54 yeah i never really understood that. why would you let your enemy retreat (with no mentioning of surrendering btw) into a more defensible position to cause more damage to your own forces? on top of that its been proven that the civilian cars you see are cars stolen by iraqi soldiers who also stole other stuff from the Kuwaitis
@@dcenhance9547 Yeah, it would make no sense for a large swath of civilians to be traveling back into Iraq from Kuwait.
And remember these are the things that got leaked just imagine what they did that we dont hear of
As an Iraqi, I was not born during that period.. but my mother told me how she and her family used to hide in their house where the windows were closed and there were no lights (they used lanterns, there was no electricity) so that the American planes or American soldiers would not notice them and bomb them...
im so sorry for ur family :(
@KompadoodleLEL
I am happy to hear that, but my family can be considered "lucky" if you compare it to others. But the United States is not the enemy anymore, it is the terrorists, the Iranian militias and the corrupt government. As an Iraqi, we do not really have many rights, especially when it comes to freedom and the basic necessities of life, and the situation has become even worse after the Israeli war on Hamas. I hope that we will be able to demand rights and freedoms by establishing a "secular" system soon.
@@KompadoodleLEL
I am happy to hear that, but my family can be considered "lucky" if you compare it to others. But the United States is not the enemy anymore, it is the terrorists, the Iranian militias and the corrupt government. As an Iraqi, we do not really have many rights, especially when it comes to freedom and the basic necessities of life, and the situation has become even worse after the Israeli war on Hamas. I hope that we will be able to demand rights and freedoms by establishing a "secular" system soon.
I am happy to hear that, but my family can be considered "lucky" if you compare it to others. But the enemy is no longer the United States, but the ter"""'rori"""'sts, the Iranian militias, and the corrupt government. As Iraqis, we do not have many rights, especially when it comes to freedom and basic necessities of life, and the situation has become worse after the Israeli war on Hamas. I hope that we will be able to demand rights and freedoms by establishing a "secular" system soon.
I am happy to hear that, but my family can be considered "lucky" if you compare it to others. But the ene@my is no longer the United States, but the ter""""rori""""sts, the Iranian mi"""liti"""as, and the corrupt government. As Iraqis, we do not have many rights, especially when it comes to freedom and basic necessities of life, and the situation has become worse after the Israeli war on Hamas. I hope that we will be able to demand rights and freedoms by establishing a "secular" system soon.
nahh cause how did they miss their actual targets so many times their aim is worse than mine in overwatch
Coz militants hide behind between civilians
Are you seriously trying to compare war to a video game?!?!
Grow up, kiddo.
@@sendthis9480bro even if its not a joke their aim is just 🍑
to be fair it was the early 90s, guided munitions and the doctrine for them were very new
They didn't miss
They knew what they were targeting
Your last question would be a yes by nearly everyone citizen in Kuwait (which it invaded and occupied) and Saudi Arabia (Iraq was massing troops on the Saudi border and actually crossed the border and to try to take the town of Khafji). You should study the reasons for the war (beyond the Western point of view that it was only about oil). Saddam just a few years prior to this war tried to take over Iran. He just took over Kuwait and was positioned to invade Saudi Arabia. Are you suggesting we should have allowed that to happen?
Yeah, don't get involved
@@反ヨーロッパのサムライ why not?
@@okisobabecause America is unable to understand that this was not ww2 and that their involvment in this caused only millions of more civilian deaths
@@angelaferkel7922 You can argue the subsequent 2003 invasion of Iraq over supposed WMDs and Saddam's supposed ties with terrorism led to millions of people dying prematurely. But, the Gulf War of 1991 did not cause millions of deaths.
@@okisoba im not saying that those millions were all killed directly by the bombs but millions died over long time from the consequences of the war and from the very ruthless targeting of infrastructure, water, power systems (the supposed weapons manufacturers) that lead to so many deaths by infections, starvation, lack of medical care or any other care. The west always downplays the actual numbers of the civilian casualties so to be realistic, the actual number of civilian deaths caused by the war, went into the millions
Thanks for covering this! I love this country, warts and all, but we definitely ought to be made aware of past mistakes to avoid repeating them.
Right, except it's not us making the mistakes, it's the puppet-masters. And they repeat their mistakes because it helps their plans for the New World Order.
Intelligent and honorable attitude to have.
Dont whitewash it
It was never a mistake
@@test-ot1fz Agree it wasn't a mistake. But not everyone knows that. It really gets me that a lot of people still think these people are "dumb" or "untrained" etc.
as long as the military industrial complex runs the united states this will keep happening unfortunately
like Syria , Yemen and countless other countries suffer because of you
yeah idk man last I checked it was Assad and his Russian backers gassing the Syrian people, not the US
Im going to quote the meme of chef ramsey... your dish has so much oil the us wants to invade it.
I was in Iraq in 2003 and there was damage from the bombings but Saddam didn't care about fixing it up. Instead he just cared about making sure his homes were nice. And we found schools and hospitals that were undamaged but they were completely empty of any equipment and stacked full of weapons that he had bought from other countries to fight against Iran.
USA's war crimes is something that's peaked my interest for a while now, every time I hear "thank you for your service" I just can't help but think of innocent people being killed. 0:01
The truth is that there is no war in history where "war crimes" haven't been commited. but compared to the soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Russian invasion of Chechnya, they are relatively tame.
Look how quickly the patriots rush to defend the US. War crimes are war crimes. Period.
@@frosty_shiba4311How out of touch are you? Why would you bring those things up unless to cope and try to distract from Americas crimes?
@@Calabrooobrother at the end of the day, this video is incredibly misleading. Every country commits warcrimes. Whether that be in a defensive or offensive war, war is hell and the laws that define what is a war crime and what is not is very rigid. War is one man killing another for survival, the most primal situation someone can find themself in. Imo, saddam got what he deserved look at his and his sons crimes against their own people, sadly the cost of the iraqi people paid for his sins were greater.
Also OP, Saddam poked the bear, read his remarks when he heard about 9/11.
i can completely understand the media's disgust at the incredible civilian casualties that where largely entirely avoidable. but incidents like highway 80 or the Har river crossing shouldn't be considered war crimes. and that's not to say that the response from the coalition forces was justified or proportionate however if a rocket propelled grenade is fired at you in what logical circumstance would you just sit there and think " huh they want to surrender guys lets not kill them " and not to mention these US soldiers would have probably been fucking riddled with PTSD and firing any sort of weapon in there direction is effectively a suicide pill for their entire column let alone *A FUCKING RPG*.
War crimes are not excluded from people like you and Western countries. We have all seen what the Germans did to the Jews and what the Russians did to German women. What did the Americans do in Japan, Vietnam and Iraq? The simplest example today is the amount of Western support for Israel’s crimes by deliberately targeting children and women in Palestine.
The media has been a lot of the problem during war time. Look at them now, not a shred of decency, intellect or integrity in the bulk of mainstream media reporting… they’re parasites!
Highway of death is probably not a war crime but its fucked up in the sense that most of those guys would have surrendered if they could, but you can’t surrender to aircrafts bombing you from high up.
So they were stuck in a situation where they were almost guaranteed to die without any hope of living another day
@@KalashVodka175 yeah defiantly but war is war. Say for example the US had been on that road and it was the Iraqi 'air force' bombing them, do you think the result would have been any different? (aside from the su22m3s and m4s used by the Iraqi air force being less technologically advanced). regardless it was indeed insane overkill and partially unnecessary, but a retreating army is still a combat capable army and in this case with fairly large numbers of t55s, BMP's and even some t72s.
@@minesalty
I agree. War is hell. I don’t blame those who bombed those guys but I can’t help but feel bad if only because its very easy for the inverse situation to be happening (your countrymen getting bombed instead of their countrymen)
This was a great educational video that was easy to follow due to the animation. Thank you. But damn this also made me sad and angry. Civilians always pay the price, I wish all wars could end.
My brother is stationed over seas and I hope to god he never finds himself in a situation where his unit is committing war crimes.
Israel allways learning with his “father” US
Their war crimes: ghey and retort ed
Our war crimes: justified.
Shock and awe. What a shame.
This makes 9/11 look like peanuts
it's not a war crime the first time.
@@uuxas what about our enemies?
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 @mericans don't have enemies, they make enemies intentionally
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 still not a warcrime the first time.......turnabout is fair play...try to take an inch and we will take a mile.
The Canadian motto
@@TheGrimlx3lmao ok tough guy
Iraq also agreed to a Soviet negotiated ceasefire and began leaving Kuwait in February but the us continued the war.
And the war started because Kuwait violated Opac agreements and refused to face accountability while no one did anything to pressure Kuwait.
I'll bet you 99% of Americans think Iraq invaded Kuwait because "Saddam was evil". And almost no one knows about Kuwait steaking Iraqi oil and intentionally dumping it on the market trying to crash Iraqi's economy.
the justification used by the Iraqi's for the invasion wasn't about Opec agreements but through claims that they were drilling at an angle into Iraq, and even this is shaky because Iraqi's have come forth and stated that Saddam was already planning for an invasion much earlier than the accusations of angle drilling came out
@@ohnoes3084 nice cope.
@@havanasyndrome3024 not an argument
@@ohnoes3084 your isn't either. You just pulled a lil "fact" out of your a$$ and pretending like it's real.
I always say this. There is no “fairness” in war. It’s wild how soldiers are allegedly suppose to follow the rules of war when the other side won’t lmao. Every country commits war crimes, what matters is how powerful the country is that did it
War is unforgiving.
Never start one.
War is hell, hell has no mercy.
war is worse. its real.
Innocent people don’t go to hell. War is worse than hell.
18:53 "there is no doubt that the Iraqis shot first" proceeds to say that Americans responding to combat engagement is "excessive and cruel" 😂
Response with killing innocent evacuees?
@@AnshumanMishra-s1d Bro they were SOLDIERS riding in TANKS and ARMORED VEHICLES. Just because they were retreating doesn’t automatically make them immune to being engaged. The bombings of civilian structures during the war was pretty awful and should be condemned, but this was just a lopsided military engagement
I'm not sure if stray bombs or defending yourself against attack constitutes war crimes.
What the video doesn't show is that the suffering of Iraqi civilians during 'Desert Storm' was but a drop in the ocean compared to the civilian suffering inflicted by the brutal Saddam Hussein regime.
It’s crazy how America always manages to be the good guys isn’t it? It’s also crazy that we just happen to find all the “monsters” of the world and come out on top time and time again. Sure makes it easy to go to war with third world nations when you’re fighting against evil, right?!
If you think any war has ever been waged without “war crimes” then you are a true fool.
The Yanks went there for two reasons
1 They love war
2 To defend their oil value
Shame on them. From an Australian doctor
The greater part of the world knows this, but since decorated veteran army grunt Billy Bob and his wife Marge have eaten the Red White and Blue pie all their life, they truly believe the rest of the world is nothing more than a barbaric horde, which would be worse off without their intervention. To them we are all Commie sympathizers or religious zealots....."why do they hate us?"
That’s what happens when you invade a sovereign nation
@@interesting5638Sovereign nation that sells us oil. Sure.
Australians participated in naval bombardments and provided infantry support for two reason
1. They are spineless cowards who do whatever the US tells them
2. They had strategic (oil) assets in the Gulf.
Shame on you. From an American physician.
What a great advert for this video, youre right. We should see both sides of the political spectrum when it comes to commiting war crimes. Because afterall, one side might not say theyre war crimes!
Here before a day in history suddenly dies to a case of 16 bullet wounds to the head that was obviously self inflicted
"direct civilian deaths"
Crime against humanity
List of the countries bombed and/or invaded by the United States from the end of the Second World War to 2020:
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-
Bosnia-Herzegovina 1994-1995
Cambodia 1969-1970
China 1945-1946
Congo 1864
Cuba 1959-1961
El Salvador 1980s
Korea 1950-53
Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia 1958
Laos 1964-1973
Grenada 1983
Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015-
Iran 1987
Korea 1950-53
Kuwait 1991
Lebanon 1983, 1984
Libya 1986, 2011-
Nicaragua 1980s
Pakistan 2003, 2006-
Palestine 2010
Panama 1989
Peru 1965
Somalia 1993, 2007-08, 2010-
Sudan 1998
Syria 2014-
Vietnam 1961-73
Yemen 2002, 2009-
Yugoslavia 1999
Not to mention the billions of American tax dollars Israel receives in the war of Gaza with more than 40.000 dead civilians.
US: the greatest terrorist on earth.
@Neutronism7there we have our 12 year old american not being able to say anything to the truth
Well this type of military strategy doesn't sound eeriely familiar
Yeah seems israel has taken the entrire playbook from the USA ok how to commit crimes against humanity.
And all this under the protective bossom of the good ol us or a where freedom and democracy comes with a helluva lot of asterisks.
Could you elaborate? This video does not accurately portray the strategy actually used so I’m not sure which strategy you are talking about.
Can you clarify? That's a very broad statement.
We are all monsters in the act of war
Don't include me, I am only force to serve in the army if my country is attacked!!!
What's crazy is, this was one of the "good wars" like WW2 where there's a clear good guy and bad guy.
Saddam invaded Kuwait and if you're reading this, there's a good chance your country helped the U.S. There are few times the world has justified a war as much as the Gulf war.
Yet despite that, there were still war crimes. It just goes to show no matter what, there will always be innocent collateral damage. Any war will always come with innocent people dying.
tbf there were war crimes in ww2 too
There is no such thing as good guys and bad guys. Thats American thinking. There are just people, human beings
Being American (like myself) was a gut-wrenching disappointment, as of Today: Dream is NOT the word that I’m endured of American is a delusional. I’ve realized that every war for centuries is a bloodbath.
This is my reality, when I kid, I was didn’t knew much of the world and I was dumbfounded to thought to be myself like:
“USA is a good country, best cities, best places, cars, weapons, best government, yippee: parades, love, pride, patriot, and freedom.”
But now I’ve realize, As I was now a young adult; I’ve knew the America wasn’t not my approval for this, if I Gen’-Z, even I was, people would haunt with tragedies like the Columbine and 9/11 attacks, while others is about war, Media, was about modernity and a grim results of ideological, political, religion and the INTERNET.
Gulf War is one of the bloodbath, worse than ‘Highway of Hell.’ in a post-Iraq war.🤦🏿♂️
you know they are making a CoD game about this…
Literally the game is touching on how the US and its allies lied. The main characters are enemies to the U.S. government
hundreds of thousands of people civilians not just hundreds and after the war
America: **destabilizes multiple countries and installs petty dictators** **invades multiple countries for resources**
Also US: why do so many countries hate us?
Sounds like every other war to me 🤷♂️
Thank you for covering the atrocities committed by my Government and Elite upon the Iraqi people. Also please make a video covering the Iraqi government atrocities in the Iran-Iraq war as a sorta prequel please.
When Rumsfeld was with Sadam? Not likely 😂
Atrocities would be purposely committed, and this was not an "atrocity" I hate how loose that word is being used. It was carelessness and a sense of just trying to get the war over with, that's why casualties in these were so low. They didn't ALWAYS target civilians and in many cases they were marshaled for the killing of civilians
iran was trying to steal an entire town that’s very important to our economy from basrah what did u expect iraq to do? and iran did far worse to us than what we did we were only trying to protect our land and people while your country invaded us for no fucking reason and tortured iraqis in prisons
@@SLIMJIMNIMAtrocities
Western freedom and democracy in a nutshell
No, some western countries refused to join.
@@glennross85 - Some? Who cares if some refused when the overwhelming majority of the west joined in.