For more, watch our 2020 documentary “Once Upon a Time in Iraq,” telling the story of the Iraq War from the perspective of the Iraqis who lived through it. th-cam.com/video/T2L4jcVqo8s/w-d-xo.html
This is a very powerful doc, but watch the original BBC version instead! The PBS/Frontline version has a lot of cut material (over 3 hours worth) and inserts a heavily editorialized american narration, which alters/removes the most revealing and critical aspects of the doc
People in Mosul were very happy to see ISIS because they shared the same religion, However, the Baghdad government and the majority of Iraqis from different sect of Islam.
@@quincyquincy4764 As an Australian I well remember our Prime Minister selling us this crazy idea of WMD (weapons of Mass Destruction), the evil of Saddam Hussein & saving the Middle East. Experts were advising us that no WMD existed and not being listened to.
@@quincyquincy4764 It's the sin of the Republican President and the Republican politicians who voted for the war. Virtually every Democratic politician voted against it, and it was liberals who were anti-war.
@@quincyquincy4764So the US should just have ignored Saddam Hussein? He had already invaded 2 of its neighbours and used poison gas on his own people. The lesser of 2 evils is still an evil. Also the US could never have know what the end result could be . They cant look into the future. If you want to blame anyone, blame Saddam Hussein who started it al…
The leaders and this militia were not following a single ruling of sharia, some people who have absolutely no knowledge about the religion will put the blame right away on religion whereas they were paid to do this. Their tactics sadly works with people like you.
I was at my uncle’s house , woke up late to the sound of helicopters and bombing and shooting, were gaming on ps3 all night long with my cousin , we had to get out of the city , what a day
ISIS filmed and released those videos, meaning it was what they wanted the world to see, not historical reality. Sunni tribes had fought ISIS, consistently, up until around 2014. Why'd they lose the will to fight?
@@Yonatan-wv9hs This is all irrelevant to the point: the Shi'ite-Twelver government became increasingly radical, and ordinary Sunnis who fought "ISIS" lost the will to fight. It's very easy to feign support, and the point is Mosul had fought off ISIS many times in the past but mysteriously stopped.
I remember being in boot camp in San Diego when Obama addressed ISIS in a press conference. Eventhough we were in training and were supposed to be completely isolated for 3 months, our drill instructors sat us down and let us listen to it on the radio. I remember the DIs saying that this conflict could be the one that our generation might have to respond to.
That goes to show you how typically theatrical and clueless Americans are. In the end, America relied on proxy forces to defeat ISIS and only took to the skies, sometimes with remote aircraft.
Not that it's unimportant what foreigners went through a decade ago against ISIS, (remember them?), but shouldn't you be doing relevant reporting related to conditions which should inform the electorate in an election year? That queston is rhetorical. This is PBS, who will unfailingly support the establishment, particularly Democrats, not only because the latter happen to support funding public broadcasting more, but, for various reasons, PBS's staff will natrually ideologically align with them. And of course, the current state of America, and thus reporting on it, does not make Biden look good.
@@womsky4537The Kurds get their salary once every 2-3 months. People are barely living, there are no employments as well so it's just hard to live when the government steals all the money
@@Arctturius My heart goes to my Kurdish people, I wish to see the day that they get their independence from this corrupt government, and to get their own government who prioritizes their people first.
The last guy couldnt have said it any better. I disagree with the invasion, Saddam was a piece of 💩. But their withdrawal made their invasion wrong in the first place.
Every country in the middle east is like a confused child. When you have major problems which is most of the time, you say "help, help, help us now." America intervenes and you say "you are part of the problem you need to leave." The Americans leave and then you blame them for leaving. Increíble.
So let’s stop intervening. Though iraq was sold to the American people with the lie that they had WMD. Maybe you should place some blame on the people who lied to you rather than the Iraqis we totally fuqed.
Iraqis did not ask for the US to invade Iraq in 2003z That decision was done by the US. Like 95% of the world was against that invasion. iSIS only exists because of that invasion, so of course it’s the US’s job to clean up there own mess.
I think he just means leaving before Iraq was stable enough, but honestly I think Iraq would never been stable enough to begin with, Iran has too much influence on these Shia Muslims of ours, a white bearded man with a towel on his head pulling the strings of these people effortlessly.
Actually Iraq didn’t beg for anything except the weapons which it purchased to be delivered. Iran intervened and the US only intervened when they feared that an Iranian supported victory, also the US didn’t intervene until the Kurds were attacked.
@@womsky4537 And yet their being constantly attacked by Iraqis and the parliament has repeatedly asked the US to leave. You're coping hard as a brick, GI Joe is not reality.
On March 17, 2003, in the wake of 9/11, President George Bush sent U.S. forces to invade Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, to avoid "9/11 on an unimaginable scale" which were never found, in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, and you've somehow decided that's Obama's legacy? *Brilliant.*
For more, watch our 2020 documentary “Once Upon a Time in Iraq,” telling the story of the Iraq War from the perspective of the Iraqis who lived through it. th-cam.com/video/T2L4jcVqo8s/w-d-xo.html
If you can, watch the BBC version instead! The PBS version cuts 3 hours of material and adds an editorialized US narration.
This is a very powerful doc, but watch the original BBC version instead! The PBS/Frontline version has a lot of cut material (over 3 hours worth) and inserts a heavily editorialized american narration, which alters/removes the most revealing and critical aspects of the doc
@@agoogleuser4317 Once Upon a Time in Iraq BBC Version is better
People in Mosul were very happy to see ISIS because they shared the same religion, However, the Baghdad government and the majority of Iraqis from different sect of Islam.
@@hayderuk3338then we should've let them keep mosul
Americans are forever damned if we do, damned if we don’t.
Americans need to learn that greed and might will always create more problems.
The invasion of Iraq is sin your country can't walk away from
@@quincyquincy4764 As an Australian I well remember our Prime Minister selling us this crazy idea of WMD (weapons of Mass Destruction), the evil of Saddam Hussein & saving the Middle East. Experts were advising us that no WMD existed and not being listened to.
@@quincyquincy4764 It's the sin of the Republican President and the Republican politicians who voted for the war. Virtually every Democratic politician voted against it, and it was liberals who were anti-war.
@purplelove937you can’t just watch sad things happen
@@quincyquincy4764So the US should just have ignored Saddam Hussein? He had already invaded 2 of its neighbours and used poison gas on his own people. The lesser of 2 evils is still an evil.
Also the US could never have know what the end result could be . They cant look into the future.
If you want to blame anyone, blame Saddam Hussein who started it al…
Religion destroyed our potential
Humans wont be able to move into a higher development stage until we get rid of Religion.
Didn't you guys choose this
blame usa
The leaders and this militia were not following a single ruling of sharia, some people who have absolutely no knowledge about the religion will put the blame right away on religion whereas they were paid to do this.
Their tactics sadly works with people like you.
Yrs brader abdol they were definitelybuddist they didnt follow sharia brader@Arctturius
This is the result of the catastrophic American policy in the region!
No
No, it’s the result of unfettered Islamic extremism
@@Kvasiir It's the result of you westerners putting Ba'ath in the cradle of Islam.
@@Zen2k4r-”No” to what exactly? Can you tell me who was at fault then?
4:33 if he said the truth, then what was the point for US to invade Iraq once it was unnecessary to do so?
That first scene. It must have been horrifying seeing ISIS rolling in.
I was at my uncle’s house , woke up late to the sound of helicopters and bombing and shooting, were gaming on ps3 all night long with my cousin , we had to get out of the city , what a day
"They weren't welcoming ISIS." Yes they were, enthusiastically.
Not so different from Americans welcoming the continental army in 1777
ISIS filmed and released those videos, meaning it was what they wanted the world to see, not historical reality. Sunni tribes had fought ISIS, consistently, up until around 2014. Why'd they lose the will to fight?
@hasibhakanovic6682 And look what happened? We lost an Islamic nation in the making. Had we united we could have created one easily
@@Yonatan-wv9hs What was the Islamic nation 'in the making'? The pseudo-Sunni death cult with the crayon "seal of Muhammad"?
@@Yonatan-wv9hs This is all irrelevant to the point: the Shi'ite-Twelver government became increasingly radical, and ordinary Sunnis who fought "ISIS" lost the will to fight. It's very easy to feign support, and the point is Mosul had fought off ISIS many times in the past but mysteriously stopped.
They all were part of isis the public supported islamic jihad's that's why they were able to take Whole city without any trouble
Yet you don't know how to find Mosul on a map.
Your source?
Only the sunni did not Shia who ran from there
Interesting yet terrifying!
I remember being in boot camp in San Diego when Obama addressed ISIS in a press conference. Eventhough we were in training and were supposed to be completely isolated for 3 months, our drill instructors sat us down and let us listen to it on the radio. I remember the DIs saying that this conflict could be the one that our generation might have to respond to.
That goes to show you how typically theatrical and clueless Americans are.
In the end, America relied on proxy forces to defeat ISIS and only took to the skies, sometimes with remote aircraft.
Thanks, Bush, and you too, Obama! (Sarcastic)
Not that it's unimportant what foreigners went through a decade ago against ISIS, (remember them?), but shouldn't you be doing relevant reporting related to conditions which should inform the electorate in an election year?
That queston is rhetorical. This is PBS, who will unfailingly support the establishment, particularly Democrats, not only because the latter happen to support funding public broadcasting more, but, for various reasons, PBS's staff will natrually ideologically align with them. And of course, the current state of America, and thus reporting on it, does not make Biden look good.
I would like to know from people in Iraq if things are now better in Iraq than they were before 9/11
For Sunni Muslims, no, for Shia/Kurds, yes.
@@womsky4537The Kurds get their salary once every 2-3 months.
People are barely living, there are no employments as well so it's just hard to live when the government steals all the money
@@Arctturius My heart goes to my Kurdish people, I wish to see the day that they get their independence from this corrupt government, and to get their own government who prioritizes their people first.
We’re damned when we do and damned when we don’t!
Politicians kinda ruin everything
No it was those damn Islamic terrorists that ruined it
PBS is our national treasure
I just don’t understand these Middle East wars , anybody can just overthrow government and claim ownership of the state , Just like that ?
تحيه للإعلامي المتميز احمد بشير ❤❤❤
The last guy couldnt have said it any better. I disagree with the invasion, Saddam was a piece of 💩. But their withdrawal made their invasion wrong in the first place.
Maybe it shouldn't have all mess done for Israel?
@@alexandrastanaev4399 What?
@@JewishBrother you will get when you find out how did yor country destroy Palestine and forced Palestinians out.
@@alexandrastanaev4399wasnt it about oil?
@@nasigoreng150 Who knows? But Bush just lied about WMDs and he believed in those lies himself.
Horrible situation!
$7 trillion with a T dollars,and thousands of lives wasted, all for one man - George Bush.
So when their brothers took over the country and their other brothers ran and hid
And it's all Bush's fault!
Is the Black Flag from Isis or from islam?
Both
Do muslims support them?
Every answer in response to your question is wrong... that's why you don't trust random people on the internet, ever.
@ChristusVictor-vc9op Total ignoramus!
@@robertc3263 Show me any primary source material indicating any symbol on this flag ever used in Islamic history. Reference sources, ignoramus!
Every country in the middle east is like a confused child. When you have major problems which is most of the time, you say "help, help, help us now." America intervenes and you say "you are part of the problem you need to leave." The Americans leave and then you blame them for leaving. Increíble.
So let’s stop intervening. Though iraq was sold to the American people with the lie that they had WMD. Maybe you should place some blame on the people who lied to you rather than the Iraqis we totally fuqed.
Iraqis did not ask for the US to invade Iraq in 2003z That decision was done by the US. Like 95% of the world was against that invasion. iSIS only exists because of that invasion, so of course it’s the US’s job to clean up there own mess.
@@ycc7744some iraqis said americans made 2 mistakes. First one - when they came to iraq, second one - when they left
They're like the MS-13 of the Middle East
People need religion, their brain do not allow them to learn anything better.
These short videos are exhausting
this channel blocked forever
Ok then take ur sh*tty Quran and get out!
Have US troops left again?
Thank you Bush and Obama
Yerp, classic Mossad tactics
Dont forget the United States coalition
"America made two mistakes, Invade Iraq and leave Iraq" I mean WTF...
Invasion created ISIS.
They left and ISIS came back.
I think he just means leaving before Iraq was stable enough, but honestly I think Iraq would never been stable enough to begin with, Iran has too much influence on these Shia Muslims of ours, a white bearded man with a towel on his head pulling the strings of these people effortlessly.
the same in Syria and Libya
@@womsky4537exactly but a lot of Muslims talk for other Muslims giving no chance for others to speak out.
@@womsky4537exactly, Iraq would never have been stable enough for the US to leave it which was why US shouldn't have invaded Iraq to begin with lol.
Ahmed al basheer what the hell?
Afghanistan same formula.
From 2020,
what about ww3?
What?
2019
And that was a meme? 😂wtf??
@@REV-1
This video is from the year 2020.
That man is hot af❤
Then Iraq begged the US to rescue them 😂
The government did, not the people 😆
Actually Iraq didn’t beg for anything except the weapons which it purchased to be delivered. Iran intervened and the US only intervened when they feared that an Iranian supported victory, also the US didn’t intervene until the Kurds were attacked.
They cried for help... And they US answered once again.
@@womsky4537 And yet their being constantly attacked by Iraqis and the parliament has repeatedly asked the US to leave. You're coping hard as a brick, GI Joe is not reality.
@@jesusnieves9221 The people wanted to be beheaded? I'm sure they did.
Obama's legacy.
The ignorance of such a statement would be hilarious if it was not so pathetic and sad.
On March 17, 2003, in the wake of 9/11, President George Bush sent U.S. forces to invade Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, to avoid "9/11 on an unimaginable scale" which were never found, in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, and you've somehow decided that's Obama's legacy? *Brilliant.*