The Lives Of US Forces In The Iraq War | Mission Accomplished: Langan In Iraq (2004) | Full Film
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- Seven months after war was declared over, journalist Sean Langan arrived in Iraq. He spent three months living in the notorious Sunni triangle, deftly moving between resistance fighters and the American troops. Travelling where few journalists dare to go and filming alone, the producer has captured a rare grassroots view of the war still raging across Iraq.
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Sean Langan - Ref. 2409
Looking at this 20 years later this is probably one of the biggest catastrophe of this century
‘Trying to change these people’s way of I don’t know’ sums it up perfectly
He's just a young kid, from a disadvantaged background, trying to do a job. Some of these guys are just 17-18 years old. They don't know what they're doing there, just trying to stay alive.
Les Américains armaient les milices chiites intégrées à la nouvelle armée irakienne créée par les Américains et leur apportaient un soutien aérien contre les sunnites.Par conséquent, les sunnites se défendaient et ces milices chiites kidnappaient des dizaines de milliers de civils sunnites, hommes, femmes et enfants, les tuaient et vendaient des parties de leur corps comme les reins, le cœur et les poumons, et tout cela est disponible sur l'Internet.
@@thesecretjuiceLes Américains armaient les milices chiites intégrées à la nouvelle armée irakienne créée par les Américains et leur apportaient un soutien aérien contre les sunnites.Par conséquent, les sunnites se défendaient et ces milices chiites kidnappaient des dizaines de milliers de civils sunnites, hommes, femmes et enfants, les tuaient et vendaient des parties de leur corps comme les reins, le cœur et les poumons, et tout cela est disponible sur l'Internet.
@Tawheed_Taqwa_Tawakkul Lots of these kids enlisting are only 17-18 years old. How much did you know about the world at 17? On top of that, these ain’t prep school educated kids. Most come from inner cities or the back ass of nowhere, where the education system sucks. They come from broken and impoverished homes and are just looking for a way out.
It isn’t in their contract that they would be invading Iraq. If you think that, then you clearly haven’t been anywhere near an enlistment contract. On top of that many are lied to by recruiters, who will downplay the danger or the chances of deploying. Given this was the early days of Iraq, the invasion had already finished, and Afghanistan seemed to be going well. Many of the guys were sold a story that the war was over and the fighting was done. I knew one kid who enlisted in the army as a Forward observer. The recruiter told him he’d be part of a fire support team; the dumbass thought that meant he was going to be a firefighter, not calling in artillery strikes. In this video the Iraqis mistaken the Americans for Jews multiple times. They know next to nothing about the Americans. The average American soldier didn’t know shit about politics or Iraq either - you can see they’re all just parroting the popular talking points that was probably briefed to them by their command. I guarantee you the war to the vast majority of them has nothing to do with politics. They’re just trying to not get killed. An interview that is going to be broadcasted on national television is not a good setting to hear someone’s true thoughts, especially when they’re serving in a war zone and under a chain of command.
38:45
This is one of the most ballsy reporters in the world...he also did great journalism in Afghanistan and was kidnapped by the Taliban.
40 mins in and you realise no one had a clue what they were doing or why they were there or what was coming on the horizon at Falujah and Ramadi
Always easy to say with the knowledge of hindsight....Even 6 years after this documentary much of the world didn't realize the war would produce ISIS.
Agreed!!
They will live with the nightmare of ramadi and falujah for decades
20 mins in and i was looking for this comment.
Thats why these guys are still killing there selves every day at home. Lord forgive them for they not know.
Iraqis are seriously some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. It reminds me a lot of my dad's family in Italy. They will give you the literal shirt off their back, feed you until you can't eat any more, and tell you their entire life's story in the process. One minute you're asking for directions, next they're planning your marriage to their cousin's daughter.
@@Tawheed_Taqwa_TawakkulAnd then you're bound in front of a camera with four masked men behind you waiting to cut your head off..
Les Américains armaient les milices chiites intégrées à la nouvelle armée irakienne créée par les Américains et leur apportaient un soutien aérien contre les sunnites.Par conséquent, les sunnites se défendaient et ces milices chiites kidnappaient des dizaines de milliers de civils sunnites, hommes, femmes et enfants, les tuaient et vendaient des parties de leur corps comme les reins, le cœur et les poumons, et tout cela est disponible sur l'Internet.
You can say that about any race of people. Comments like this are on every video when it comes to TH-cam. It’s always top voted whether it be Mexicans, Norwegians, Iranians, Sudanese, Russian, Chinese, etc.. It was also the exact opposite of what I experienced being in the country but oh well. Good for you, I guess.
Go to Iraq and see for yourself and stop defending@@jasoninthehood9726
@@jasoninthehood9726 The reason for what you've observed is that people from all countries are generally good, and want to show foreigners their kindness and compassion. Middle Eastern countries in particular are known for their hospitality. You can see it when the shop keepers in Ramadi help the British journalist and provide him safe haven, even though they were likely part of the resistance against the US and British. However those same people will not be so kind if you kick down their door, violate their social and cultural norms, arrest their children (often based on poor intelligence or wrong addresses), hold them indefinitely without charge in prisons with horrific conditions, and then tell them they ought to be grateful for the service. Especially when the foreign soldiers doing the door kicking are almost totally ignorant of the local culture, history and language. Then those soldiers get all indignant and moralizing when the locals begin to express their anger at the injustice and callous cruelty they were subjected to. Ask yourself how you would feel if you were in the position of those women waiting outside a notoriously brutal prison for the slight chance of seeing their loved ones.
Many Americans who served in Iraq have long since realized the self-defeating nature of the tactics and missions they were ordered to carry out. Upon reflection, and after many years of healing and grief, they were able to understand why Iraqis were so angry at them, and that this anger was in many cases entirely justified. That doesn't mean that the friends and comrades they lost deserved to die, and nor will it bring them back. But it will provide a degree of understanding that isn't possible if you cling to simplistic notions that Iraqis were all just "bad people." It could also help ensure that America never again engages in such a criminal and destructive invasion and occupation. That would be best for not only the rest of the world, but also the American soldiers of the future, who won't have to experience the horrors of fighting an unjust and pointless war, the purpose of which they don't understand and can't even articulate to themselves or others.
I was there in August 2004 to October 2005. I was injured then sent to Baladh Iraq then to Germany. Things were crazy around this time. I speak about my experience on my channel. I still pray everyday for both Iraq and my friends who lost their lives.
But why did they attack Iraq 🇮🇶 ?? Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Have people forgotten what happened in the prison in 🇮🇶
USA is the world largest terrorist
They said it was to remove Sadam Hussein, but who knows what was actually going through Bush and Blair's mind?
@@grahamt5924 nothing but murders
@@grahamt5924 Everyone but you. They wanted Oil, no secrets about it.
Dam Republicans bush😂
“Most of these people don’t want to be free”. They want to be free. You are not freedom. You are the oppressor.
Oh yeah, a country run under Sharia law is totally free. 😂 We got a glimpse of that when ISIS and the Taliban started taking control. Hope everyone has fun under that.
they dont "freedom" they want sharia law.
@@jasoninthehood9726 That isnt an answer to what the guy said.
@@larsmonsen88 Do you think I care?
@@jasoninthehood9726 yes
Please save these archives for future generations, war criminals need to face justice.
The politicians
Both you and I know that won’t happen. Wishful thinking.
@@FancySeeingYouHere and military
Unbelievable documentary, I have seen a lot of war documentaries and often record and learn more about this particular conflict as it’s an interest of mine. The scenes under the bridge and the Iraqi song of Jihad for the bomber juxtaposed blew my mind and had me at the verge of tears. How two sides view a conflict, both are heartbreaking.
I hear ppl talking abt freedom but I see a lot of ppl around the world who don’t look or feel free. That goes for some ppl right here in America too. I don’t think most ppl really know what that word means, they just say it and it’s empty like lots of other stuff humans like to spout off abt.
America is a really comfortable prison camp.
Les Américains armaient les milices chiites intégrées à la nouvelle armée irakienne créée par les Américains et leur apportaient un soutien aérien contre les sunnites.Par conséquent, les sunnites se défendaient et ces milices chiites kidnappaient des dizaines de milliers de civils sunnites, hommes, femmes et enfants, les tuaient et vendaient des parties de leur corps comme les reins, le cœur et les poumons, et tout cela est disponible sur l'Internet.
They only use the word “freedom” to make it more palatable for most people. I’d be perfectly fine if the USA just said it’s military actions were to secure American interests and whatever else just to maintain its position as the number one global authority. Most of you wouldn’t like it if the government was just blunt about it but I don’t mind, I’m all for the country doing what it needs to do.
it's well established that the oncept of freedom, including as a political goal in modern times, has aome wildly differing definitions. probably the most recognized one is the american libertarian freedom, but there are different conceptions including the leftist one of freedom from economic exploitation, or even freedom ideals of religious fundamentalists that boil down to freedom from temptations to sin and challenges to the religion.
'Misadventures of uncle sam ' should be the title..
Or mission accomplished my arse
@@markwebster5749you seen the Guardian doccy on Col. James Steele?
@Tawheed_Taqwa_TawakkulWhen you sign a contract with any US military branch, it explicitly tells you more than once that your life is at risk once you sign and commit to the contract. This is a purely voluntary military so you can’t argue that people didn’t know the risk unlike a place like Russia where you’re conscripted into fighting.
It is really good to see, when looking back at this war, that there were honest, good journalists trying to tell the REAL story. Thanks for your good reporting, Sean!!❤
It really is crazy. Sending kids to fight a war where they have no idea who the enemy is. I’ve watched a lot of Iraq war films the amount of times I’ve heard who’s the enemy is mind blowing.
Your army brutally killed my people. Your army is animals, not humans.
Man, the ambience of these smaller documentaries made in the 90's early 2000's was great. They tend to leave a lot of the sounds around you play out like children, cars, radios .. you can almost smell the atmosphere from here. Now documentaries like this are filled with music cues and jump cuts all over the place.
20 Years have flown by man!
امريكا احتلت العراق ودمرت أرضه وقتلت شعبه ومن ثما سلمت العراق لي إيران لي يزاد سفح الدماء بين سنه وشيعه
What country are you from my friend?
خطا
That Mcdonald talk is hilarious as hell 33:41
18:35 that question made him dizzy 😂
Great documentary.
After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War Is a Racket". The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a short book published in 1935. His work was condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement, which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas, who wrote Butler’s oral autobiography, praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage
I love your documentaries. I can see how messed up we are. 😁
Just watching this the smell of Iraq comes back to me. Reminds me of wondering how i was gonna die and i hoped it was fast. I lost my soul there.
10 mountain and the 82nd Airborne working together. I was attached to about 5 different divisions and every one of my DCUs had a different combat patch
Why did you destroy my country? It is now one of the worst countries in the world 💔😑
I agree with you brother Bush should be in jail love from India
I agree with you. From Texas.
@@genestone4951 We in Iraq do not hate the American people, but we hate the American government. Thank you for your beautiful comment.
@@IRAQI_22 الان العراق بخير لا تكذب
@@user-wz3yq2iv7r يصعب عليك قول الحق لاستفادتك من الباطل وما اكثر الساكتين عن الحق لاستفادتهم من الباطل
Well I was actually here and I don't want 100% agree with your assessment man. If your video is meant to shit all over all of us you did a great job
what about it dont you agree with? upset that you served for nothing? LOL
Served for a bunch of Zionist billionaires. Not my fault you serve a whack ass military
when you and your brothers entered Iraq you were seen as heroes, and then you proceeded to be a bigger tyrant than Sadam. And you wonder why they hate you? You had freedom on your lips telling Iraqs they were free from dictatorship, but you had no hammer to break their chains you just had more chains.
Same…I loved my time in Iraq. Learned a lot and matured even more. People that weren’t there at that time will never understand what we saw and did. B co. 2/325th 82nd. AATW!
@@user-gt5me3nf6bwhat have you done with your life? keyboard warrior
33:59 bosnia didn’t have a McDonald’s at the time of this filming (it opened in 2011)
No McDonalds in Russia anymore...
@Tawheed_Taqwa_Tawakkul
Vkusno i tochka is 30% cheaper since eliminating the corporate overlord and uses non-gmo/organic ingredients sourced from Russia. Papa Putin needs to share with us, our McDonalds has tasted like dehydrated s*** ever since beef tallow was eliminated in the 90s and soy replaced the beef in the patties. The only thing that is edible is the *farmed* filet O'fish.
@@joebenson528oh wow, another uninformed GMO scaremonger.
Your face in the end of the video ....is just battered i mean really an embodiment of what iraq is
Didn't Diddy bang Will Smith🤔?
@@infobaseworks2401Usher too
Just last year Langan received the World Press Freedom Award. Respect sir!
Watching these kids try to wrap their brains around why they are there is painful..I bet alot of these guys dont feel very good about this 20 years later..
Just watched the whole thing, very raw, gave full insight of how everything became the way it is.. that bombing of the bridge at the end and how you filmed those that were killed a week prior just boggles my mind. You can tell by their faces that they’ve had enough and just purely exhausted. How many of them died on that bridge? Waste of lives both worldwide military and Iraqi people. R.I.P to all, 21 years later history has repeated nothing learnt..
You kept saying you were talking to and on patrol with the 82nd ,but t hey all had 10th mountain patches? Around the 40 minute mark
Yeah I noticed that too. Likely elements of 10th Mountain were attached to 82nd Airborne at that time. Both units took part in the First Battle of Fallujah around this time. At 41:47 you can see a soldier with the 82nd patch.
3:42 the look of joy on the reporter face while discussing destruction and occupation of iraq ❤😂
“America’s never gone to war with a country that has a McDonalds” might just sum it up perfectly. Close second: “What they need here is a Pizza Hut, and “We’re here to help.”
We NEVER shoulda been in that country!! Period
I'm very happy for the Iraqis, they made their choice and now they are living the way they wanted to live. Congratulations.
The first truth i have heard out of an Arabs mouth...few months later, this prison was called out for what it was, hell!!! My heart goes out to those innocent people who were tortured,dehumanized, raped and murdered. Shame on America, you did receive reports of this but ignored it!
Les Américains armaient les milices chiites intégrées à la nouvelle armée irakienne créée par les Américains et leur apportaient un soutien aérien contre les sunnites.Par conséquent, les sunnites se défendaient et ces milices chiites kidnappaient des dizaines de milliers de civils sunnites, hommes, femmes et enfants, les tuaient et vendaient des parties de leur corps comme les reins, le cœur et les poumons, et tout cela est disponible sur l'Internet.
The guy at the BEGINNING " U.S.A GOOD, U.S.A.GOOD, U.S.A FREEDOM.
I guess he learnt the hard way 😁😁😁
@@abdulbasitabdulsalam5167
He went from living in the successor of ancient Babylonia the pinnacle of human architecture that has yet to be emulated, to the paleolithic stone age in just 8 months.
@@abdulbasitabdulsalam5167Yeah, still better than any country in the Middle East or Africa by a long shot though.
@@joebenson528Yeah because Iraq pre-invasion was so nice. 😂😂😂 Put down the crack pipe and come back to reality. It went from a shit hole to a shit canyon.
Paid actor😂
You introduced the 10th Mountain as the 82d Airborne. I have a feeling whoever you were assigned to just told you that in attempts to pre-emptively shift blame away from themselves.
When you can't just say your 'Other Coalition Forces' you have to blame somebody.
RLTW
I noticed that as well. Kept saying 82nd and they were wearing 10th Mountain patches.
@@c_dubz9401 Some of these dudes have probably been in long enough to serve in multiple units. Assigned unit patch on left shoulder. Unit that you served in combat with on right shoulder.
The stresses of this environment..reminds me of Mogadishu Somalia but this is long lasting and of a wider.spread of action. I knew from the very first day we had troops entering there and the suicide bombers or vehicles driving towards the troops and turning around, p layimg games, I knew it was going to be hell
i don't know about anyone else.
But there is a key lesson i learned here. When the iraqi army, police and civil servants were disbanded, most didn't give a rats ass about saddam. They had no income as the bread winners of their families. There was no security, no order, nothing. They lost HOPE! When people lose hope they will do anything and follow anyone to help them out of their predicament. Hence why society had collapsed. People who lose hope and with the death and destruction around them. they will inevitably go mad, we saw that guy with the grenade. He didnt want to be in that situation he just lost his mind due to his circumstances. Its very sad but would make a classic case study of how man changes and regresses due to awful circumstances of no fault of his own.
That’s the 10th Mountain Division that he’s with in Fallujah not the 82d
Didn't Diddy bang Will Smith🤔?
Iraqis women are so beautiful
gutsy reporter, bet your were unpopular with powers that be , very good work should be way up the viewing , thanks for posting
WoW!
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He was lucky that he didn’t get kidnapped and behaeded
38:47 love the iconography ''here to help'' (See huge machine destroying the area) 46:32 makes a valid point - beautiful journalism here! In hindsight the difference between the two type of IV here are, the US are frontline army soldiers and I'm comparing that to the IV of the Iraqi Resistance leaders. So I guess they will speak with a little more eloquence/acumen
Does anyone remember Baghdad Bob? That guy was WILD 🤣
I only remember your mother
@@Monotheist-dr5id ma’am does your husband know you’re speaking unsupervised? Maybe go and read about the stains on momos man dress 👍🏻🤡
🥺😲🤕🙏
That’s 10th mountain not 82nd
To that immam or people putting out hatred or negative things it just comes back to you
Bugger McDonald's give me burger Kings onion rings any day
Sean Langan 🐐
1:05:37 This triggered some unpleasant memories 😞
Iraqi resistance were the good guys. I bet the media never figured that out.
What an interesting program sean has done some amazing work. The west really fucked up in Iraq
The causes of wars are always anything but what is publicly admitted, as can be seen in the Russian war in Ukraine today.
I think the Iraqis and Afghans can understand what Ukrainian civilians are going through.
The truth is that the people who suffer most in war are all those who are not involved in the war itself.
Politics is played with human lives... so fxckin pointless
All makes sense to me now that I've bought shares in Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Kalashnikov and BAE??
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Ok well thats just freakin terrifying to say the least
1:14:10 Such a peaceful religion Islam is... Allah Allah SnackBar
Bruh 🤦🏻 what do you want from us to do when the American came and start destroy our country?
Iraq is a very complicated country to rule it is bc of the diversity of culture and the tribal spirit that controls the ppls mindsets
but saddam was the man had them under control
the moment they killed him they didn't know the horror yet to come
the same with libya
10 Mountain - keine Fallschirmjäger - Schild mit zwei gekruezten Schwertern
“Two well paid soldiers.” Sorry to inform you they aren’t paid well enough for what they do
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Excellent film, extremely brave and professional journalist.
Probably the best documentary about US invasion on Iraq.
Every Westerner should watch this movie. This is how NATO bombed my people, the Serbs, and falsely slandered them. Likewise, he never found "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. The goal of the USA and the collective West was never to build a rule of law in Iraq or Afghanistan, but only an interest. Oil and opium. As well as the geopolitical environment of Russia, Iran and China. Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria. In all these countries, America (USA) and the collective West made a mess. But that was his goal. Islamic terrorism was just the answer. There are so many analyzes and observations that prove how wrong and disastrous the American policy towards Iraq was after the invasion. In the end, the Taliban defeated both the US and the West after so many years. And what does that tell us? I feel sorry for all the Iraqi innocent victims. One day the USA will also face accusations of genocide 🙏
58:13 for a second i thougt its Mexico
Langans in the Hot spots before they became Hot spots! Nice early footage.
”We don’t want the jews in Iraq”
I think you expelled the whole lot years ago mate.
😂😂😂😂😂
Whay he really means is the Zionists, and not the Jews. Iraqi Jews lived in Iraq for hundreds of years, untill the Ashkenazis showed up out of no where to colonize Palestine.
20 years ago, I thought we were saving them from Saddam.
Since then, I’ve realized it was not so clear cut, but had decided it was still a net-positive without the benefit of hindsight.
Watching this, I realize many of them deserve awful tyrants as leaders.
They wanna b free without someone helping them but they dont know where the hell to even start on there own.
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Interesting to see from our time Perspektive. Like he is talking about Zarqawi, and we know how all that ended up. Isis, constant insurgency, big portion of Middle East destabilized
الله اكبر
All the Armed Forces Radio reminds me of 4th25.
Y’all member this?
m.th-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_nrIqdldiwfDRiyGc1GzwvYH5QJgaA8OIg.html
The patches are “augmented units”. 82nd ran the entire sector then. That’s the PAO he would’ve interfaced with. We also had 1st ID, USMC (1st MARDIV), reservists, guardsmen, and a whole bunch of 10th MTN.
It was chaotic. We brought in lots of “back up”. Ramadi was chaos.
And why didn’t y’all do the BIAP Burger King? It was open then.
18:25 lmaoooo
The woman towards the end screaming and acting all irate says she has cancer but yet is acting like a wild person. Where does she get the energy from, ive never seen someone with cancer act so healthy. Her eyes say it all.
Be quiet
The Empire's soldiers were completely kept in the dark about the real motivation behind the illegal invasion. Ofcourse I am talking about Vietnam.
this is NOT in 2024
Title clearly states 2004 Buddy.
😂
This is archived and televised back in 2004 as a documentary.
@@flailingelbows7073 I see now. Thank you for the correction.
Is it true that the only iraqis happy to see sadam go were christian iraqis?
Journalists don’t get the recognition they deserve
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رحم الله صدام حسين
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18:35 😐....🤣🤣🤣🤣
هذه الفلم يعلمك من هم القاتلوو الامريكان. السنه ام الشيعه
It’s 2024 now..and we still don’t know the whole truth. One day we will..perhaps. Whatever that truth may be..I thank God every day my hubby came home from that hellhole.
يكلك صار حفل شواء بلحم أمريكي 😂
Quite a thoughtless comment.
You do realize that the Iraqis suffered far more than the Americans, but I don't think most Americans got any pleasure out of it.
وين الشيطة هذولة السنة اهل الفلوجة
وينكم من جان الأمريكي ؟؟؟
موجودين وأنتم الان مع الامريكان وخونة وعملاء
يا صني
ابن الأفغاني والشيشاني والتونسي والسوري والتركي والقوقازي
ابوك وين فج رر روحه
تاج راسك الشيعة.
Another crazy thing is the speaker 🔈 saying come and fight and for some reason nobody disabled it. Pretty much just begging plz come kill our people soldiers and nobody thought to turn in off. Some people say it was for oil makes no sense to me. I have yet to see where there fighting for this oil. The only thing that makes sense is they wanted to destroy the region plane and simple.
I tried all the ways to get rid of cholesterol & I failed, I didn't expect that it will take few wars and invasion to get rid of cholesterol.
It's odd how the Iraqi people living day to day with American forces literally in their laps and yet they STILL claim that "the Jews" are the ones driving the mission. The people that are literally living the mission daily area stating this !! And the reporter dismissed them as confused about who is behind the liberation/invasion. So either they are confused or they know more than the rest of the world !?
You're not a journalist seems to like you are an American soldier.
typical english reporter .goes to iraq while isis there gets mobbed by loads locals by shop threats an all , shows no fear ,n keeps smile on face dure chaos. getts in car then shouts letts go go 😂😂
28:18 ahh that makes sense.. maybe not the best example to copy counter-terrorism strategies from. unsurprisingly it just creates more terrorists, great for when you're trying to find some justification to clear some real estate, not great for PR.
Lol at 24 mark guys talkong about waiting and being tired literally the soldiers life in iraq everyday