The U.S. news media helped make the case for the country to go to war - 20 years later, Sana Saeed, in the first episode of Backspace’s second season, investigates the worst warmongering in the history of U.S. media. Watch it here -> th-cam.com/video/uFKG8S7K0wM/w-d-xo.html
Don’t forget Netanyahu came to America testifying to lawmakers that saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and bush knew it was a lie but went along with that lie.
Journalist: Why did you wage war against Iraq? Bush: Because we thought that they have nuclear weapons. Journalist: Then why didn't you attack North Korea? Bush: Because they have nuclear weapons.
@john doe Better to have stopped (& punished) the 1st who used the miserable unnecessary nukes. Japan was going to surrender to USSR anyway. That was intended for USSR.
@john doe Isn't that ironic. ''If you want peace, prepare for war''. Which pretty much locks humanity into a perpetual state of being prepared against an imminent threat. Which I guess makes sense, considering human nature. It just seems unrealistic to hope for no one to have them, therefore no one needing them, for example.
I agree Bush has lost any credibility to speak about anything outside of his ranch. But the invasions you mention could not be more different... from Russian 8 year effort to avoid such conflict ....to the conduct of the military action to avoid human and other damage BECAUSE Russia looked past the conflict years to the time when all would have to live together as neighbors. My young country with immature leadership goes into other sovereign nations before thinking through how to deescalate. Anyway, Wanheda, you get my meaning: the 2 events are not equal.
the US overthrew a brutal dictator, Putin is brutalizing a country that elected their leader. It is not the same thing. The Iraqi people had the opportunity to design an effective government, instead they were intent on evening scores and brutalizing each other. The condition of Iraq is due this infighting. Don't blame it on the US.
no It's not same thing, Ukraine bombed Russian minority for 8 years, did Iraq genocided American minority in 8 years? Ukraine wanted to invite NATO on Russia border, did Iraq share border with USA and invite Chinese troops there?
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Thank you for making this video. I was one of the troops sent to Iraq in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The only thing that came out good about that experience for me was that it opened my eyes to the lies our government has told to justify it's selfish wants and maintaining power. I lost 2 friends out there during that war and for what? You know the part of this video where it shows President George W. Bush misspeak and say Iraq when referring to one man deciding to launch a war was spot on. Then he said "Iraq too" in a joking way. I don't see how that was funny. All the lives lost because he wanted more power. He was playing an international chess game with our lives. This is why my mind is open to videos like yours. I know now from my experience I need to see both sides of a story before believing in anything. Thank you.
@@BilalAli-v5m Thank you. I have my days where I feel guilty to what we did out there but I have put most of it behind me. I had to otherwise I would have gone down a dark road. Many of my friends did. But thank you for that compliment.
"On January 29, 2009, a monument of a shoe was erected in honor of Muntadhar al-Zaidi in an orphanage in Tikrit." There are pictures of it online ... the statue was however quickly taken down.
As an Iraqi who lost 2 family member and many friends in this war for been in the street and no reason as civilians , seeing the distraction and war crimes was been committed by the USA invasion of Iraq it’s very sad but what’s make me more sick when I see George Bush J are welcome and laughing with the audience in a tv show and very warmly welcomed by media and people even now after all war crimes . It’s just disgusting by any human beings and morals standards for any society to do that . 🤮
I'm sorry you lost family and friends, and as an American I'm apologizing to you for the atrocities by demonic George Bush and other liars in office. It wasn't actually a war - it was an invasion upon a sovereign country based upon the many lies they told. I think the American government knows very well that they've run out of lies to start wars, which they've done for decades or centuries. It WOULD NOT surprise me if they used the anti-gay laws that Ghana and Uganda leaders have imposed to invade those countries next for 'Crimes Against Humanity' like they blamed Hussein and Quaddafi, yet the only crimes against humanity was by the hands of America's dishonest, heartless leaders.
I am from Iraq, I lost my uncle in this war, and I do not expect that there is an Iraqi family that did not lose anyone, but what makes me laugh more in this miserable life is that the person who kills a person is imprisoned for life or executed, while the person who kills a million Playing sports in the streets of New York💔
If you see this American Rome, UK Britain they just killed innocent people and destroyed whole country in past history and their people living on innocent people blood without a shame.
I'm Iraqi, I was only 6 years old when the 2003 war started. I remember the bombings and bombardments vividly till this day. This war gave me permenant memory loss due to PTSD, I do not remember anything from my childhood in Iraq, cause the only thing that I remember is the war and how terrified I was to lose my family. Iraq was a beautiful country, but because of the horrendous war waged on us by the US, its a country of ruins now, that thrives of of corruption. We will never forgive nor forget.
Look up “invasion of Hague Act” the US can’t be touched by the ICC. We could turn into Nazi Germany and still they wouldn’t be able to. They made this bill in 2002 so they could have a hay day in the Middle East without being touched or taken to international court.
As an Australian Iraqi whoes mother fled Bagdad during the Iraq Iran war, my heart is with all Iraqis! I hope that in time things can get better inshallah!
Agree! The next generations should not get a corrupted history. We want them learn from this, be the humans who have good consciousness and morality. Enough of hypocrisy and lies. The world has been suffering too much already.
It's the Iraqi "freedom fighters" who failed Iraq. If they had worked at building their nation after the occupation - like Germany, Japan, South Korea, Panama did - instead of IEDs, terrorism, jihad, people would be immigrating to Iraq, instead of Iraqis (and Moroccans, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Turks) escaping to the Third Reich - I mean the Federal Republic of Germany.
Are you kidding? AJ+ is spreading lies. They are fueled by their sick hatred towards America. They just want to talk bad about America thats all. They wont say that Saddam Hussein is responsible for the Iraq war. He is responsible for the death of hundreds of thousand Iraqis.
lol at show at every school, the world would be worst with saddam in power, he took kuwait in 91 and the us had to step in and remove him from there, while he sent rokets to israel as he got kicked out of kuwait trying to draw them in to a war, gassed the kurds, elmininated his opposition. that dictator had to go..
In the war, as a child Iraqi citizen...my childhood is supposed to be of beautiful memories and games...but in my childhood I saw my family being killed, all of them in front of me, and explosions, terror, blood and bullets...Is this the humanity that the United States is talking about?
Americans lost to Vietnamese Farmers. They also recently got kicked out of Afghanistan and they lost over 4,000 soldiers in Iraq. Has the US not learnt their lesson?
@mike flames The American military is filled with depressed eeencel pysys and that is a fact you couldn't even beat rice farmers in vietnam nor goat herders in Afghanistan. The US is a paper dragon
They actually won every single battle in Vietnam and left because of the massive anti-war protests. Afghanistan is one of the most impossible countries to invade, especially when they used guerrilla tactics and camp in mountains.
Vietnamese farmers? Vietnamese farmers had their land confiscated by the communists. And the Americans and the South Vietnamese lost to the communists.
Bush having a slip saying "brutal invasion of Iraq" and the whole crowd laughing reminds me of the epilogue of the Handmaid's Tale. How awful that Bush can commit the horrible crimes he did, suffer no punishments or consequences and be laughed off as a cute senior.
Just wait. You and all human beings will see him suffer the consequences. Nobody can hide or run. Precise judgement will be done. Existence of hell is a necessity.
It is an ecological disaster and no one is saying anything about it. Look up " Equipment Starts Operation for Japan's Radioactive Wastewater Discharge Despite Protests, Criticism " on yT.
@@paull2166 yup, us Americans are pretty hypocritical. We have all these people calling for Putin to be charged with war crimes, but there is no serious call to hold our own leaders accountable for recent atrocities that played out on a larger scale over a long period. Not to sound like I’m defending Putin or Russia’s invasion. Just that too many people are quick to call out the evil deeds and sociopathic behavior of other regimes while not examining our own elected officials. Our aristocracy isn’t as in your face as Russia but it should be obvious enough to us by now
@@baptizednblood6813 It's not just the president, it's all of Congress. They all voted for war. And the MSM lied about everything! Biden voted in favor of war and was rewarded by getting elected president. Ridiculous 😳
I'm very proud of the fact that I voted against the Iraq war. And proud that I voted strongly not for students to be saddled with thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt. Jeremy Corbyn❤♥
The MSM and the American people through their elected officials supported the war 1000% 🙄. Biden voted in favor of the war and the people elected him president 🙄.
Iraq is just one, From Salvador Allende of Chile to Shah of Iran to Kadafi of Libya to Afghanistan and list goes on. Anglo / American government era has been nothing but wars and destruction just to rob others' natural resources mainly OIL.
Excellent report about unfair unjustified war against Iraq. Iraq is still and will never stop from bleeding from that war. Iraq which is used to be the cradle of civilization now it's the cradle of poverty, destruction and gloomy life.
Thanks To USA, natao, Israel And eourpe Of course we should not forget The back Staber and traitors of the arbain countries who have support the invasion
The US certainly has a major role in its devastation. But it isn't the only culprit and Iraq was never such a thing as the "cradle of civilization" (that's Mesopotamia as a region, not a country). The country has been plagued by conflict since its inception and Saddam made matters worse, specially when it engaged Iran in a 8 year long war.
One of the biggest things i regret as an American. I was only 8 at the time but i still feel terrible that my country did this. All the power and wealth we have and this is what we do with it.
@@jollcheist1443 no I definitely know about Iran, guatemala, hondoras, etc. but for me it hits different because i know so many iraqi people that came here because of the war and it happened in my life time.
Please know that that all the power and wealth that you have was snatched from there rightful owners. They were massacred in millions and everything was usurped from them. White men's legacy is to loot, pillage and kill the other, it's soaked in the blood of other human and even animal, wiping them off earth's face. ..
@@abrahamel-gothamy6472 I'm afraid if someday Indonesians has conflicted with Papua's Freedom Organization in our Papua state just because "Gold" and Freeport with "Geopolitics" there. Till today our governments can't do something about that because if any military operation to clear that "threat" soon the western will says "Human Rights" like Timor Leste in 1999 ended with Big oil exploration
Where are you? I lived as an immigrant half of my life and I know how bad it is , Iraq is better now I'm back to mosul and if you know what you're doing you can live a better life Hope you a nice life sir♥️
@@assyrianmf thank you brother. Left Iraq when I was 1 year old In 1991 and only came back for a visit once in 2009 and 2017. Lived between Ireland and the Uk. I hope you’re prospering back home hbbi
The fact we went into Iraq and Libya is absolutely atrocious look at both countries today. There leaders may have done some things that were horrible but both countries were also thriving with some of the highest gdps and lowest crime rates but today both countries are in a state of chaos while the United States is stealing oil in Iraq and collecting natural resources illegal in Libya
You are joking ? ICC belongs to the West...the West bought by the USA ....if someone refuses to dance according to USA music, they immediately kill those that do it obey
Because all the distructions they did in that countries... which they didn't want to see them a developed country.or may be other reason like (religion or to show the world a brutal face of that)
Cause the real owners of the planet allowed him to... remember that if voting mattered it would be illegal, behind every president there is a banker making money by both longing and shorting their investments when something like the iraq war happened. As a latino that worked for a uk trader for 3 years i learned plenty about the age of spin and how everything you consume about politics it's just a facade that a banker is pulling on you so they can earn another million no matter if the stocks are going down, even at that moment there are people making money.
@Ishak I think Turkey has a long-standing historical significance not only in the region but in the world. Its significance to the great river Euphrates is no small thing; especially as it relates to Biblical prophecy in accordance with my faith.
InshAllah he will be accountable for what he did to millions of Iraqi that got killed by this genocidel. It’s crazy that he is not even in jail here but they put someone in jail for a meme. Here this guy killer of millions is free. Yeah of course of course God is all-hearing, all-knowing. We pray to god that this guy got punished what he has done to the innocent.
Other Muslims are the ones who now have and run Iraq, and Muslims who have done the killings/bombings. How much was spent by the USA on aid for Iraq before the war to try and save lives under SH? No reply? Thought not. Middle east should be sealed off, and left to its own horror show.
@@Learner-lq3vu God is all hearing?! Then he will hear your lies. USA handed Iraq to Iraqi adults, and it was them who commited the bombings and murders ie the genocide. How much did the USA spend on aid to save lives during the time of SH? Are you not ashamed? You will be judged.
@@hosihbhb6496 To recap; Hans B. had not been given enough access/hindered when trying to inspect sites in Iraq for WMDs, which is where tis started. Then there was the death toll from sanctions, (lack of western medicine and oil sale sanctions). The USA and other 'willing' countries were convinced that the Iraqi people would be delighted to be saved from the savage Hussain family. It all went to plan pretty much, however the insurgency began, and so the Sunni/Shia violence started, leaving the USA and others with a far nastier situation. USA had no option but to stay and try to contain the violence over a period of years. The plan was to have a quick and overwelming force to remove SH, and to set up and create a fair governing democracy for all, then leave. Because of the Sunni/Shia violence, (and other actors from other countries wishing to destabalize and grab power for themselves), the USA had to maintain a presence in Iraq. Some/many in Iraq now enjoy a safe and fair country with a bright future, and wish the USA stays in as a small force. Some in Iraq want all USA forces out. What is your point?
I fought in Iraq. It humbled me Iraqi people are loved I still remember the kids we played soccer with, the lady who brought us bread. 😢 Part of me will always be over there! ALL WAR is evil
Hope karma pays you back and I know it will. Hope you'll experience what you made Iraqi ppl feel✌️, the fear, the sorrow, the pain. "The lady who brought us bread" lol..what were you expecting?? Disgusting comment. (The tear-dropping emoji is manipulative.If you felt sorry, you'd go back to Iraq and build the country up cause you destroyed it)
im a researcher from Baghdad i lost my father , uncle, cousin beacuse of this war . unfortunately everything she said it's true , now the Iraqi people are suffering from the Iranian militas
Still iconic. He should have gotten an award. He did what a lot of us were thinking when he was at that podium speaking. Smh.. A senseless war that caused a lot of innocent civilians their lives or displacement only for a lot of these countries to shun them after migrating -as if it's there fault.. Smh this world is just a mess!
The same thing happened from the pledging US nation it done to the British in 1775, not by shoes thrown to them, but bullets out of raged. So what's new if millions of Iraqi citizens enraged and billions of people across the planet aggrieved by the 1991 & 2003 US invasion of Iraq that found NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. The US-led invasion of the West resulted to the destruction of the country and caused the deaths of million Iraqi women, old folks, children, livelihoods and destroyed this nation historically called Babylonia. Geopolitical sentiments of humanity shifted away respect for US political leaders, instiutions and all things American. US had alienated people on earth away from them. US made a martyr out of Iraq and former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein no matter how the West picture him dictator. To the eyes of the world it's otherwise. If another state is strong enough to apply the same procedure to the US, surely its political leaders are super aggrieved, and would go to war. The threat to world peace is not the poor, developing and emerging states, but the US and it's Allies arising from being dominant economically and militarily- who want to control and manage the world when they themselves cannot resolved domestic problems such as recession, huge unemployment, border security, immigration, illegal-drugs, home-grown terrorism and home of the homeless people on earth across 50 states millions of Americans to name few social problems.
Narcissist people do that and guess what they rule the collective west , they have no empathy and wants control … that’s why they killed a million innocent in Iraq and they acted like nothing happened
@john doe Only when the wrongdoings of the West are used to legitimise Russia's illegal war. Which is what all the Kremlin bots do. You won't find many in the West who doesn't think the invasion of Iraq was wrong. One wrong doesn't make another wrong right.
This is why most people in the world have no problem with the Ukraine invasion, I oppose it but i also understand why many don't bat an eye over it, when you've spearheaded illegal invasions of countries all over the world, the world will not take you serious when you call out other countries for doing the same exact thing, If the US had respected international law, the story of Ukraine and Russia and China today would be different.
As a Muslim man and an American ,I send my condolences to my brothers and sisters in Iraq. I didn't start the war. I have nothing to do with it. I was only 4 years old when this abomination started.
It's terrible how a united states president George W. Bush and his administration can go to war based on lies of mass destruction. I'm a Christian who believes in freedom of religion. Peace to all Muslim people of the United States 🇺🇸
@@monsieurpatate1573 The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, along with six workers of the Suez Canal Company. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Muslim_Brotherhood_in_Egypt#:~:text=The%20Muslim%20Brotherhood%20was%20founded,of%20the%20Suez%20Canal%20Company.
Did you hear that soldier yelling at George W Bush in the beginning of the video? People who aren't Muslim, and who are American opposed the War left and right when it was going on. The soldier is telling Bush he lied, and all his friends and millions of Iraqis are dead because of you. He, like many of people wouldn't even of let the invasion happen if it was up to them. Explaining you didn't start the war, and had nothing to do with it and you were only 4, almost sounds like it's them verse us, I just live here.
I am an Iraqi and my mom told me about the war she said she remembers the skies the bombs everything this is why she is scared she is scared for Palestine for our country of iraq 🇮🇶 free Palestine 🇵🇸
I was fooled about this invasion. I remember agreeing with the narrative being pushed but was absolutely decieved. This is really bad. Thanks for the post and the lessons. We need those presentations. Need to know the truth, need to have these things to consider.
That's cool you acknowledge that, but what baffles me is how you and most Americans could not see that it was a lie at the time. I'm no genius but it was over the top obvious from the get go it was an artificial narrative to anyone with just a little bit of critical thinking.
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@Jack Smith 'Jack', have you always been a smirking moron, or is this a recent character development? Steny has said something very genuine and it rings true, whereas you're here and elsewhere in the comments purely to troll and to throw garbage in the threads.... try to be a man instead of a reptile, it won't hurt you in the least.
Good thing there are still good people in the West, it's just they couldn't easily learn the truth before it was too late, i respect the likes of you brother.
😞"There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn’t bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it’s hard to see, it’s important to understand that these people exist.”- Mia Farrow😞😞
We have spoken and discussed the illegal invasion for a long time It is time now fir all the countries which collaborated in this uncivilised invasion to pay compensation for the material destruction caused to Iraq The cost of humans lost cannot be compensated It is also time to bring to book like Bush Blair and Obama and the others and to incriminate them in this war It is all the more appropriate especially in the case of Blair and Obama have publicly admitted that the was a mistake Now they must pay for the mistake The mega media whovpushed for this war should also be made to be accountable for thei false reporting that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction It was clearly established that this was a manufactured lie by Bush and Blair
@@quinnishappy5309 the life under Saddam will never cost half of the people’s lives in Iraq, you the Yankees really did it in the race of the massacre people, since you do have a good record towards the North America Indians.
Iraq is thought to have the fifth-largest oil reserves in the world, with an estimated 145 billion barrels of known reserves. This amounts to around 17 percent of the Middle East’s overall oil reserves and 8 percent of the world’s total reserves. Iraq also ranks second in OPEC’s Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (after Saudi Arabia) in terms of oil production.
I love how these people make us believe they defend human rights when in fact they are the ones provoking atrocities all around the world The good guys were first to die..., but the truth is always uncovered don't worry
In all fairness, the US has saved 100s of millions of lives with food, medicine, technology, volunteerism. The US single handedly saved 10s of millions of deaths in Africa alone with AIDs medication, COVID vaccines, etc., etc., etc. NO OTHER country in the world has done as much! But I'm like you, I say screw Africa and everyone else!
I grew up hearing the horrors of what happened and how it affected and stills continues to affect my family , I was only born in 2008 but as I’m growing older my heart is broken , the stories I’ve heard from my family and how it has ruined our lives sadden me , we need justice , the innocent children that were killed need justice , the people still living with ptsd need justice they all need justice.
I was an undergraduate at university at the time. And I remember plenty of people around me, many of whom had multiple university degrees, telling me that I was wrong to oppose the invasion, that Iraq would send those missiles and "weapons of mass destruction" everywhere, that no one anywhere in the world would be safe, that we could all die. I mean, these were professionals, most of them, who actually bought all this shit. I didn't know at the time, all those years ago, why it was so hard for people to think critically, to avoid making sweeping generalisations, to cross-reference information, to engage in open, respectful intellectual discourse. I guess reading misinformation or lies and watching really disturbing images on television can do things to the human mind. I know now that media sources are powerful weapons that can, and often will, help governments sell anything. Anything for "peace"! And "peace" sells!
I mean Sadam did invade Kuwait and wage war against Iran, but dind't the US wage wars in Vietnam and nuke Japan? it's good when you do it, but bad 4 every1 else, eh? lol
@@haweeyaosman2930what a stupid question. I don’t have to be horrified by something just because I live there. I can be appalled at how needlessly people die.
This is exactly the reason why I believe there is heaven and hell because maybe the culprit will get away from punishments in this world but the real justice will be served in the hereafter
@@olivialim7541 US has been invading countries for years without any good reason, and now putin is invading so they call him a war criminal. This is why i think putin's war is justified in a sense to get back at america, but bush should be in prison for life i think.
Why is that the media don't even bother discussing the cost of innocent lives, children's, men women, old young lost life . Those who survived life will never be same.
You are a highly knowledgeable news reporter, for your reporting is never fraught with baseless sensational comments! Citing authoritative historical sources in a reporting is undeniably the way professional journalism ought to report news. My subscription assured and thnx again for your quality chronicles!
I recently returned to Iraq for a visit after having been there as a soldier in 2007. It was amazing how kindly the Iraqis treated me. I love the Iraqi people.
Wow,that destroys everything Christian Nationalists and bootlickers of Zionists insist upon labeling of Arab people in general. I served in the Military with Palestinian Americans both Muslim and Christian and worked besides them in the VA system. They are very hospitable people.
In an objectively just world, they both would be, but unfortunately the current international system is based on Anglo-American power projection, therefore, the ICC's authority is based on their primacy in the international order. That means American and British leaders, and their close allies are more or less exempt from the ICC's authority unless they willingly submit to it's authority. Had there been an acute and extreme backlash to the Iraq war and opposition parties gained power in either country based on promises to make those leader's be held accountable, then there might have been some maneuvers to turn them over to the ICC, but that didn't happen, unfortunately. For me though, Bush was a willing stooge in all this; he was too stupid to come up with this on his own. The true master minds were Cheney and Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld is dead, and Cheney is not too far behind. Powell is dead too, so that leaves Rice, but her culpability is not as big as those top 3, imo.
It's a country that some Western imperialists drew on a map 100 years ago. That's why the various factions and tribes started their civil wars the second America took a mass murdering thug off their necks.
@@drmodestoesqthe only mass murdering thug are the US president. Wait till someone dismantles the US government and we'll see how civilized these barbaric Ameritard people are.
@@charlemeH The West only care about "human rights abuses" and "massacres" when it isn't in their favor. "Never again" they say, as they continue to perpetrate the exact crimes they critisize when it suits them
Because it wasn't. Stick to the the definition of the words and don't trivialize them. That doesn't amend any wrongs, nor does it get us closer to the truth.
It was an invasion but it wasn’t a ‘Holocaust’. Last I heard, US and British soldiers didn’t round up Iraqis and then put them in concentration camps until they work to death. I’m pretty sure they didn’t gassed and execute special needs people either.
Wait! Will be visible censure of irak..!criminals British.... no talk about Ukraine logo?loves much Ukraine now? 😅Species Ukraine left with 5 days before in mantain at others faster. Different with irak situation no? Mammal British said because Comunists for that did it invading irak... What means Comunists? Because brirish makes 8 infections in 4 females? And diseases and infections? Because Britain are full with diseases. Means are Comunists....
@@jalenthomas7210 That invasion was dealt with ( during the 'First Iraq War' ). The Second Iraq War was based upon fabricated pretexts. That is not 'conspiracy theory', it was transparent at the time and even prior to the invasion, the U.S. State Department manufactured justifications to invade Iraq ( supposed possession of WMD and other pretexts), Hans Blix (Google him, and what his role was in Iraq at that time) said clearly that their was no evidence to substantiate U.S. claims that Iraq had WMD stockpiles. It was a U.S. war of aggression, not for the stated claim of being to depose Hussein, but to allow U.S. companies access and control over Iraq's oil reserves and to achieve hegemony in the region.
I well remember this at the time. I wasn't even what would be called a liberal then, and I could see how empty were the administration's arguments in support of invasion. Yet the advertising campaign was so carefully sculpted as to be largely effective in the face of reason. So many people seemed happy and proud that the US was flexing its muscles, so to speak, that they just didn't care about the outcome, and because of that, to this day, we are all still paying the price.
20 years ago we had Army recruiters at our high schools trying to get kids to sign up to fight in the war. Telling us that after we came back home, the Gl bill would get us free ride through college. I didn’t sign up, but so many of my generation did. How many didn’t make it home? I know several of my classmates didn’t. The ones that did were never the same.
Karma hit them hard and that is a happyending for innocent Iraqis, next time they will think twice before listening to their criminal politicians who would never send their children to the war zone and at the same time lining their pocketswith millions. .
The poor folks are paying for the wealth of the power elite with their blood. Young people die for the decisions made by the old fks who don't have to risk their lives on the battlefield. Can't stand these government leaders who say they weep for the fallen. They shed a few drop of tears. The soldiers shed blood.
This is the problem I have with Americans. They feel so sorry for the few thousand soldiers who died. They don't care about 2 million iraqis blood. Pathetic
"Modernization" often involves dismantling institutions that were already "westernized". First it was constitucional monarchies, then social democracy, and now neoliberalism.
He is a war criminal but hey him and the vice president got super rich off rebuilding and war contracts. So it's ok. Now Cheneys daughter is holding political office.
@@marsone5023 in UK there is also democracy but they never admit their past . My point was not about criticizing own government but to Admit the mistakes that their country committed.
"Saying some things" and "Doing other things" and "The intentions are another things"...These 3 sentences are the same actions that Bush and people around him done. What you say is "Shameless Honesty" and it is running in the very core of any American, mostly in politician because they got the notion that they are above everyone in the world and they can do everything.
IRAQ INVASION WAS ABOUT OIL Brigadier-General James Ellery CBE, the Foreign Office's Senior Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad since 2003, had confirmed the critical role of Iraqi oil reserves in alleviating a "world shortage" of conventional oil. The Iraq War has helped to head off what Ellery described as "the tide of Easternisation" - a shift in global political and economic power toward China and India, to whom goes "two thirds of the Middle East's oil." His remarks were made as part of a presentation at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, sponsored by the Iraqi Youth Foundation, on 22nd April 2008. "Iraq holds the key to stability in the region", Ellery continued, due to its "relatively large, consuming population," its being home to "the second largest reserve of oil - under exploited", and finally its geostrategic location "on the routes between Asia, Europe, Arabia and North Africa - hence the Silk Road."
أنا عراقي، منذ حرب امريكا ضد بلدنا والى يومنا هذا بلدنا يعاني من سوء الخدمات، انقطاع الكهرباء، عدم توفر سبل العيش الاساسية، الفقر، التشرد والإرهاب. لقد دمرت امريكا كل شيء يعيش اربعين مليون عراقي في تصارع مع الحياة الان😢
The U.S. news media helped make the case for the country to go to war - 20 years later, Sana Saeed, in the first episode of Backspace’s second season, investigates the worst warmongering in the history of U.S. media. Watch it here -> th-cam.com/video/uFKG8S7K0wM/w-d-xo.html
nothing changed, now anything weird with the mainstream media's story on europe situation is dismissed the same way question about the iraq back than.
you just mention iraq forgot about Afghanistan people still dying , deal with taliban ......................................
Now, they are trying to do it with China.
Don’t forget Netanyahu came to America testifying to lawmakers that saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and bush knew it was a lie but went along with that lie.
Why do Christians always get a free pass?
Journalist: Why did you wage war against Iraq?
Bush: Because we thought that they have nuclear weapons.
Journalist: Then why didn't you attack North Korea?
Bush: Because they have nuclear weapons.
@john doe Better to have stopped (& punished) the 1st who used the miserable unnecessary nukes. Japan was going to surrender to USSR anyway. That was intended for USSR.
@john doe Isn't that ironic. ''If you want peace, prepare for war''. Which pretty much locks humanity into a perpetual state of being prepared against an imminent threat. Which I guess makes sense, considering human nature. It just seems unrealistic to hope for no one to have them, therefore no one needing them, for example.
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@john doe Yes.. But when everyone become superpower having nuclear weapons, then no one will be...
@@DimitarBerberu USA not USSR
Bush has no right to criticise Putin for Ukraine when he did the exact same thing to Iraq
I agree Bush has lost any credibility to speak about anything outside of his ranch. But the invasions you mention could not be more different... from Russian 8 year effort to avoid such conflict ....to the conduct of the military action to avoid human and other damage BECAUSE Russia looked past the conflict years to the time when all would have to live together as neighbors.
My young country with immature leadership goes into other sovereign nations before thinking through how to deescalate. Anyway, Wanheda, you get my meaning: the 2 events are not equal.
the US overthrew a brutal dictator, Putin is brutalizing a country that elected their leader. It is not the same thing. The Iraqi people had the opportunity to design an effective government, instead they were intent on evening scores and brutalizing each other. The condition of Iraq is due this infighting. Don't blame it on the US.
USA along with its partner in crime - the UK, has No right to criticize anyone.
The US is The troublemaker in Ukraine.
no It's not same thing, Ukraine bombed Russian minority for 8 years, did Iraq genocided American minority in 8 years? Ukraine wanted to invite NATO on Russia border, did Iraq share border with USA and invite Chinese troops there?
The fact that Bush is not in jail is really crazy.
See the American Service-Members' Protection Act known informally as the Hague Invasion Act. It guarantees no consequences for George Bush.
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it never happens in Imperialists-ocracy and Zionist-ocracy ..
And Cheney.
@@indiasuperclean6969is india clean clean it please i have never seen any one dirtier than indians
Thank you for making this video. I was one of the troops sent to Iraq in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The only thing that came out good about that experience for me was that it opened my eyes to the lies our government has told to justify it's selfish wants and maintaining power. I lost 2 friends out there during that war and for what? You know the part of this video where it shows President George W. Bush misspeak and say Iraq when referring to one man deciding to launch a war was spot on. Then he said "Iraq too" in a joking way. I don't see how that was funny. All the lives lost because he wanted more power. He was playing an international chess game with our lives. This is why my mind is open to videos like yours. I know now from my experience I need to see both sides of a story before believing in anything. Thank you.
You were a mercenary for the military industrial complex.
🤍 thank you for the comment
You are a really good man
@@BilalAli-v5m Thank you. I have my days where I feel guilty to what we did out there but I have put most of it behind me. I had to otherwise I would have gone down a dark road. Many of my friends did. But thank you for that compliment.
Peace Be Upon You brother ✌🏼😇
The Iraqui people should honor and recognize the man who stood up and threw his own pair of shoes at George Walker Bush. That was historic and epic!
in fact, they have. After jail, the man ran for some sort of elections and won.
"On January 29, 2009, a monument of a shoe was erected in honor of Muntadhar al-Zaidi in an orphanage in Tikrit." There are pictures of it online ... the statue was however quickly taken down.
The only regret is that the shoe missed the criminal-in-chief. So much suffering and death as a result of this illegal invasion. God help Iraq.
As far as I remember, and then told dad that man who threw the slippers, was paid millions after
@@mohammedrashel7381 Is he still alive that brother hero.
As an Iraqi who lost 2 family member and many friends in this war for been in the street and no reason as civilians , seeing the distraction and war crimes was been committed by the USA invasion of Iraq it’s very sad but what’s make me more sick when I see George Bush J are welcome and laughing with the audience in a tv show and very warmly welcomed by media and people even now after all war crimes . It’s just disgusting by any human beings and morals standards for any society to do that . 🤮
I'm sorry you lost family and friends, and as an American I'm apologizing to you for the atrocities by demonic George Bush and other liars in office. It wasn't actually a war - it was an invasion upon a sovereign country based upon the many lies they told.
I think the American government knows very well that they've run out of lies to start wars, which they've done for decades or centuries. It WOULD NOT surprise me if they used the anti-gay laws that Ghana and Uganda leaders have imposed to invade those countries next for 'Crimes Against Humanity' like they blamed Hussein and Quaddafi, yet the only crimes against humanity was by the hands of America's dishonest, heartless leaders.
I’m sorry for your pain and loss
In normal world they should have ended in trial or get worse than they did to saddam
mainstream media and Bush are one!!😛😛😛
@@timsmith8391 no one shall believe your crocodile tears.
I am from Iraq, I lost my uncle in this war, and I do not expect that there is an Iraqi family that did not lose anyone, but what makes me laugh more in this miserable life is that the person who kills a person is imprisoned for life or executed, while the person who kills a million Playing sports in the streets of New York💔
No one allowed to kill anybody!
Richard Ramirez (serial killer) said & understood the same thing, there is huge irony and hypocrisy within western superpowers.
@@joanneliu6700 if you are powerful you can murder as many as you would like and there will be only praise and love for you by your society.
Well-said!
If you see this American Rome, UK Britain they just killed innocent people and destroyed whole country in past history and their people living on innocent people blood without a shame.
I'm Iraqi, I was only 6 years old when the 2003 war started. I remember the bombings and bombardments vividly till this day. This war gave me permenant memory loss due to PTSD, I do not remember anything from my childhood in Iraq, cause the only thing that I remember is the war and how terrified I was to lose my family. Iraq was a beautiful country, but because of the horrendous war waged on us by the US, its a country of ruins now, that thrives of of corruption. We will never forgive nor forget.
Sorry
Sorry 😢
That'll teach you guys to never bomb us again
What about all the stuff your own people did to you guys don't forget about that either
@@angelroman3487 You're not ready for the truth my brother.
Bush talking about peace is the most funny and ironic thing ever
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America talking about freedom is more ironic honestly
@@dodoiserg3371 Do people know "weapons of mass destruction" came directly from Netanyahu?
@@dodoiserg3371fr
America THE PLACE OF FREEDOM EQUALITY PEACE WHERE YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS AM I RIGHT GUYS!?
A war crime that has gone unpunished
he will get his punishment in hell
They are white. No one will punish them. But soon things will change
@@nonamex3052 Its not about being white. It's about who wins. Ask the Germans after Nuremberg.
The victors write history and hence do not have war crimes.
A holocaust
"invasion of Iraq um I mean Ukraine"😂😂😂 I wonder why ICC did not also sent an arrest warrant to Bush.
Because America threatened them
Look up “invasion of Hague Act” the US can’t be touched by the ICC. We could turn into Nazi Germany and still they wouldn’t be able to. They made this bill in 2002 so they could have a hay day in the Middle East without being touched or taken to international court.
@@abdulimraan2706 Because ICC itself is Funded and run by Americans..
ICC is western backed. it will never indict anyone from western circle. Rest of the world should gang up against the western.
US are the main donature to UN and ICC, they even build and give the UN a free headquarter, UN and ICC are US's proxy tools
As an Australian Iraqi whoes mother fled Bagdad during the Iraq Iran war, my heart is with all Iraqis! I hope that in time things can get better inshallah!
Why don't you go back then instead of living in a dirty western country?
Its up to the Iraqis.
This video should be shown in every high school history class in every country throughout the world. It's a great, clear summary of the truth. 👆
Agree! The next generations should not get a corrupted history. We want them learn from this, be the humans who have good consciousness and morality. Enough of hypocrisy and lies. The world has been suffering too much already.
It's the Iraqi "freedom fighters" who failed Iraq. If they had worked at building their nation after the occupation - like Germany, Japan, South Korea, Panama did - instead of IEDs, terrorism, jihad, people would be immigrating to Iraq, instead of Iraqis (and Moroccans, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Turks) escaping to the Third Reich - I mean the Federal Republic of Germany.
Actually it's not. They took out Saddam because he started selling oil in Euros instead of the Petrodollar... However yes, Should be shown either way.
Are you kidding? AJ+ is spreading lies. They are fueled by their sick hatred towards America. They just want to talk bad about America thats all. They wont say that Saddam Hussein is responsible for the Iraq war. He is responsible for the death of hundreds of thousand Iraqis.
lol at show at every school, the world would be worst with saddam in power, he took kuwait in 91 and the us had to step in and remove him from there, while he sent rokets to israel as he got kicked out of kuwait trying to draw them in to a war, gassed the kurds, elmininated his opposition.
that dictator had to go..
As an Iraqi freedom supporter it is good to see Americans stepping out to denounce the people who pushed them into a war.
The damage has been done to your country! It doesn't matter now.
its not enough they must be brought to justice
I hope so.
words are enough for you...
@@highandmightyqueen79 For what?
As an Iraqi, I can approve. This is actually the first time I hear someone explaining the TRUTH in a thorough but detailed way! Good job 👍🏻 Thank you!
Palestine or isreal
@@Vikings-z5gIt has nothing to do with the conflict
In the war, as a child Iraqi citizen...my childhood is supposed to be of beautiful memories and games...but in my childhood I saw my family being killed, all of them in front of me, and explosions, terror, blood and bullets...Is this the humanity that the United States is talking about?
Americans lost to Vietnamese Farmers. They also recently got kicked out of Afghanistan and they lost over 4,000 soldiers in Iraq. Has the US not learnt their lesson?
@mike flames The American military is filled with depressed eeencel pysys and that is a fact you couldn't even beat rice farmers in vietnam nor goat herders in Afghanistan. The US is a paper dragon
War is the biggest industry in the USA and after that comes Pharamacare, imagine that, they can't go 10 years without a war because they go bankrupt
They actually won every single battle in Vietnam and left because of the massive anti-war protests. Afghanistan is one of the most impossible countries to invade, especially when they used guerrilla tactics and camp in mountains.
@@HistoryOfRevolutions You belive in a god? you are beyond stupid.
Vietnamese farmers? Vietnamese farmers had their land confiscated by the communists. And the Americans and the South Vietnamese lost to the communists.
Bush having a slip saying "brutal invasion of Iraq" and the whole crowd laughing reminds me of the epilogue of the Handmaid's Tale. How awful that Bush can commit the horrible crimes he did, suffer no punishments or consequences and be laughed off as a cute senior.
That was hilarious! And the American people through their elected officials supported the war 1000% 🙄
Just wait. You and all human beings will see him suffer the consequences. Nobody can hide or run. Precise judgement will be done. Existence of hell is a necessity.
It is an ecological disaster and no one is saying anything about it.
Look up " Equipment Starts Operation for Japan's Radioactive Wastewater Discharge Despite Protests, Criticism " on yT.
@@paull2166 yup, us Americans are pretty hypocritical. We have all these people calling for Putin to be charged with war crimes, but there is no serious call to hold our own leaders accountable for recent atrocities that played out on a larger scale over a long period. Not to sound like I’m defending Putin or Russia’s invasion. Just that too many people are quick to call out the evil deeds and sociopathic behavior of other regimes while not examining our own elected officials. Our aristocracy isn’t as in your face as Russia but it should be obvious enough to us by now
@@baptizednblood6813 It's not just the president, it's all of Congress. They all voted for war. And the MSM lied about everything! Biden voted in favor of war and was rewarded by getting elected president. Ridiculous 😳
I'm very proud of the fact that I voted against the Iraq war. And proud that I voted strongly not for students to be saddled with thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt. Jeremy Corbyn❤♥
Jeremy Corbyn is a great man, the billionaire media makes him out to be a communist
You can't vote for or vote against, pentagon and us national interest gets it job done either ways however ways possible
Yeah that made a diffrence are you nuts?
The MSM and the American people through their elected officials supported the war 1000% 🙄. Biden voted in favor of the war and the people elected him president 🙄.
Iraq is just one, From Salvador Allende of Chile to Shah of Iran to Kadafi of Libya to Afghanistan and list goes on. Anglo / American government era has been nothing but wars and destruction just to rob others' natural resources mainly OIL.
As an Iraqi, once the Iraq war veteran said "My friends are dead because you lied"
Excellent report about unfair unjustified war against Iraq. Iraq is still and will never stop from bleeding from that war. Iraq which is used to be the cradle of civilization now it's the cradle of poverty, destruction and gloomy life.
Thanks
To USA, natao, Israel
And eourpe
Of course we should not forget
The back Staber and traitors of the arbain countries who have support the invasion
The US certainly has a major role in its devastation. But it isn't the only culprit and Iraq was never such a thing as the "cradle of civilization" (that's Mesopotamia as a region, not a country). The country has been plagued by conflict since its inception and Saddam made matters worse, specially when it engaged Iran in a 8 year long war.
One of the biggest things i regret as an American. I was only 8 at the time but i still feel terrible that my country did this. All the power and wealth we have and this is what we do with it.
The day you do some more research in history you all found out all the dirt we have been doing all over the world.
@@jollcheist1443 no I definitely know about Iran, guatemala, hondoras, etc. but for me it hits different because i know so many iraqi people that came here because of the war and it happened in my life time.
@@abrahamel-gothamy6472 don't forget about Cuba and North Korea
Please know that that all the power and wealth that you have was snatched from there rightful owners. They were massacred in millions and everything was usurped from them. White men's legacy is to loot, pillage and kill the other, it's soaked in the blood of other human and even animal, wiping them off earth's face. ..
@@abrahamel-gothamy6472 I'm afraid if someday Indonesians has conflicted with Papua's Freedom Organization in our Papua state just because "Gold" and Freeport with "Geopolitics" there. Till today our governments can't do something about that because if any military operation to clear that "threat" soon the western will says "Human Rights" like Timor Leste in 1999 ended with Big oil exploration
I'm Iraqi, I lived as an immigrant my whole life and will probably die one, thanks to these wars
Where are you? I lived as an immigrant half of my life and I know how bad it is , Iraq is better now I'm back to mosul and if you know what you're doing you can live a better life
Hope you a nice life sir♥️
@@assyrianmf thank you brother. Left Iraq when I was 1 year old In 1991 and only came back for a visit once in 2009 and 2017. Lived between Ireland and the Uk. I hope you’re prospering back home hbbi
The fact we went into Iraq and Libya is absolutely atrocious look at both countries today. There leaders may have done some things that were horrible but both countries were also thriving with some of the highest gdps and lowest crime rates but today both countries are in a state of chaos while the United States is stealing oil in Iraq and collecting natural resources illegal in Libya
I always voted against the Iraq war because it is the same as what the Americans were doing in Central and South America in the 80s.
Great ❤ job bro
Not the Americans, the U.S. corporatocracy.
@@cindy652 americans voted for them and supported the war.
@@trfgshdtg4577 not all. Besides, America is basically a continent, as named by the Europeans.
You never had a vote on the Iraq War, clown. Are you on the UN Security Council or in the US Senate?
i’m Iraqi and thanks for posting this, it changed the world
My blood is boiling. Why is Bush not in prison yet?
You are joking ? ICC belongs to the West...the West bought by the USA ....if someone refuses to dance according to USA music, they immediately kill those that do it obey
Not only Bush, infact all US Presidents are terrorists who killed millions of people in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea etc.
Because all the distructions they did in that countries... which they didn't want to see them a developed country.or may be other reason like (religion or to show the world a brutal face of that)
Cause the real owners of the planet allowed him to... remember that if voting mattered it would be illegal, behind every president there is a banker making money by both longing and shorting their investments when something like the iraq war happened.
As a latino that worked for a uk trader for 3 years i learned plenty about the age of spin and how everything you consume about politics it's just a facade that a banker is pulling on you so they can earn another million no matter if the stocks are going down, even at that moment there are people making money.
He's just a puppet
And he has the audacity to casually make a joke of it now?? Absolute disgrace
cry about it
@@Brian-nn1tf typical american behaviour right here
As an Iraq War Veteran I appreciate you creating this content.
Selamın aleyküm
@Ishak I think Turkey has a long-standing historical significance not only in the region but in the world. Its significance to the great river Euphrates is no small thing; especially as it relates to Biblical prophecy in accordance with my faith.
I'm happy Saddam is out, even though the occupation phase went sideways.
So you killed innocent women and children 😮
@@ishak633 Turkey is trouble maker since 1000 years ago
As a Muslim, i dont think jailtime is enough for what Bush has done that's why we wait for God's punishment
InshAllah he will be accountable for what he did to millions of Iraqi that got killed by this genocidel.
It’s crazy that he is not even in jail here but they put someone in jail for a meme. Here this guy killer of millions is free.
Yeah of course of course God is all-hearing, all-knowing. We pray to god that this guy got punished what he has done to the innocent.
Other Muslims are the ones who now have and run Iraq, and Muslims who have done the killings/bombings.
How much was spent by the USA on aid for Iraq before the war to try and save lives under SH?
No reply? Thought not. Middle east should be sealed off, and left to its own horror show.
@@Learner-lq3vu God is all hearing?! Then he will hear your lies. USA handed Iraq to Iraqi adults, and it was them who commited the bombings and murders ie the genocide.
How much did the USA spend on aid to save lives during the time of SH?
Are you not ashamed? You will be judged.
@@abdell75roussosDo you really think the US just came and handed Iraq to Iraqi people and went back to America? Watch the movie Vice 2018
@@hosihbhb6496 To recap;
Hans B. had not been given enough access/hindered when trying to inspect sites in Iraq for WMDs, which is where tis started. Then there was the death toll from sanctions, (lack of western medicine and oil sale sanctions).
The USA and other 'willing' countries were convinced that the Iraqi people would be delighted to be saved from the savage Hussain family.
It all went to plan pretty much, however the insurgency began, and so the Sunni/Shia violence started, leaving the USA and others with a far nastier situation.
USA had no option but to stay and try to contain the violence over a period of years.
The plan was to have a quick and overwelming force to remove SH, and to set up and create a fair governing democracy for all, then leave.
Because of the Sunni/Shia violence, (and other actors from other countries wishing to destabalize and grab power for themselves), the USA had to maintain a presence in Iraq.
Some/many in Iraq now enjoy a safe and fair country with a bright future, and wish the USA stays in as a small force. Some in Iraq want all USA forces out.
What is your point?
I fought in Iraq. It humbled me Iraqi people are loved I still remember the kids we played soccer with, the lady who brought us bread. 😢 Part of me will always be over there! ALL WAR is evil
And you also loved raping Iraqi chicks right?
You are a cold killer.
Hope karma pays you back and I know it will. Hope you'll experience what you made Iraqi ppl feel✌️, the fear, the sorrow, the pain. "The lady who brought us bread" lol..what were you expecting?? Disgusting comment. (The tear-dropping emoji is manipulative.If you felt sorry, you'd go back to Iraq and build the country up cause you destroyed it)
How about you people
Pay back the BLOOD YOU HAVE SPLIT IN OUR COUNTRY
God bless brother
As a tunisian I stand with iraqis ❤❤
im a researcher from Baghdad i lost my father , uncle, cousin beacuse of this war . unfortunately everything she said it's true , now the Iraqi people are suffering from the Iranian militas
Sorry for lost, and my home country involument, the u.k
I watched more than 50 times the guy throwing his shoes on President's face
He missed. Even though I wish it did hit him that got dog shit on it.
Still iconic. He should have gotten an award. He did what a lot of us were thinking when he was at that podium speaking. Smh.. A senseless war that caused a lot of innocent civilians their lives or displacement only for a lot of these countries to shun them after migrating -as if it's there fault.. Smh this world is just a mess!
The same thing happened from the pledging US nation it done to the British in 1775, not by shoes thrown to them, but bullets out of raged. So what's new if millions of Iraqi citizens enraged and billions of people across the planet aggrieved by the 1991 & 2003 US invasion of Iraq that found NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. The US-led invasion of the West resulted to the destruction of the country and caused the deaths of million Iraqi women, old folks, children, livelihoods and destroyed this nation historically called Babylonia. Geopolitical sentiments of humanity shifted away respect for US political leaders, instiutions and all things American. US had alienated people on earth away from them. US made a martyr out of Iraq and former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein no matter how the West picture him dictator. To the eyes of the world it's otherwise. If another state is strong enough to apply the same procedure to the US, surely its political leaders are super aggrieved, and would go to war. The threat to world peace is not the poor, developing and emerging states, but the US and it's Allies arising from being dominant economically and militarily- who want to control and manage the world when they themselves cannot resolved domestic problems such as recession, huge unemployment, border security, immigration, illegal-drugs, home-grown terrorism and home of the homeless people on earth across 50 states millions of Americans to name few social problems.
Did you watch 50 times Saddam Hussein gassing 1000's of Kurds?
I hope he still alive!!
The Iraq War is a great example of selective memory of The Collective West.
@john doe us invaded more countris then the West
th-cam.com/video/1hpEAqTkdQ8/w-d-xo.html
Watch above video
Narcissist people do that and guess what they rule the collective west , they have no empathy and wants control … that’s why they killed a million innocent in Iraq and they acted like nothing happened
@john doe Only when the wrongdoings of the West are used to legitimise Russia's illegal war. Which is what all the Kremlin bots do. You won't find many in the West who doesn't think the invasion of Iraq was wrong. One wrong doesn't make another wrong right.
Iraq will never forget what worst you have done with their people and destroyed the country. They must take revenge.
*Those "unintended consequences" were 100% intended.*
At least somebody gets it
yep, planned very carefully by a certain country in the middle east that controls US foreign policy...
Iraqi people better start building Nukes now ,otherwise you will face same situation created by the Zionists in very near future ..
Always refreshing to see some actual journalism, which is something sorely lacking here in New Zealand. Love you Dena ❤
One of the strongest informative videos of AJ+. A real thank you is all we can say!
That bush clip where he slips is amazing
This is why most people in the world have no problem with the Ukraine invasion, I oppose it but i also understand why many don't bat an eye over it, when you've spearheaded illegal invasions of countries all over the world, the world will not take you serious when you call out other countries for doing the same exact thing, If the US had respected international law, the story of Ukraine and Russia and China today would be different.
Iraq is not on the us border
@@icemike1 Which makes it even worse.
@@chomasensi you don't get it proxy Ukraine is on Russia border no comparison to Iraq
@@icemike1 of course it compares to Iraq. Both are sovereign countries being invaded by a larger nation that is breaking international law
@@icemike1 Wake up from your delusions.
From an Iraqi the account of events explained in this video is so accurate and unbiased. Great job!
As a Muslim man and an American ,I send my condolences to my brothers and sisters in Iraq. I didn't start the war. I have nothing to do with it. I was only 4 years old when this abomination started.
It's terrible how a united states president George W. Bush and his administration can go to war based on lies of mass destruction. I'm a Christian who believes in freedom of religion. Peace to all Muslim people of the United States 🇺🇸
You are our brother you dont need to explain yourself you are one of us
@@monsieurpatate1573 The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, along with six workers of the Suez Canal Company.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Muslim_Brotherhood_in_Egypt#:~:text=The%20Muslim%20Brotherhood%20was%20founded,of%20the%20Suez%20Canal%20Company.
Did you hear that soldier yelling at George W Bush in the beginning of the video? People who aren't Muslim, and who are American opposed the War left and right when it was going on. The soldier is telling Bush he lied, and all his friends and millions of Iraqis are dead because of you. He, like many of people wouldn't even of let the invasion happen if it was up to them. Explaining you didn't start the war, and had nothing to do with it and you were only 4, almost sounds like it's them verse us, I just live here.
Wow! You’re young. I was 18.
I am an Iraqi and my mom told me about the war she said she remembers the skies the bombs everything this is why she is scared she is scared for Palestine for our country of iraq 🇮🇶 free Palestine 🇵🇸
American when they invade a country:😴
Russians when they invade a country:😡🤬
I was fooled about this invasion. I remember agreeing with the narrative being pushed but was absolutely decieved. This is really bad. Thanks for the post and the lessons. We need those presentations. Need to know the truth, need to have these things to consider.
And we are being fooled about the Ukraine invasion Russia 🇷🇺 is in the right.
That's cool you acknowledge that, but what baffles me is how you and most Americans could not see that it was a lie at the time. I'm no genius but it was over the top obvious from the get go it was an artificial narrative to anyone with just a little bit of critical thinking.
بعد وقت حبيبي
Governments often, often deceive their citizens. I've learned if the government is pushing something, then do the opposite.
Drop your arrogance... And you'll see the truth
ما يحدث اليوم في غزه كان يحدث يومياً عندما دخل ودمر الامريكان وحلفائهم بلدي🇮🇶. ولهذه الساعه لم نرى اي تعويض او حتى اعتذار من امريكا وحلفاؤها🥺
لا نقول الا كما قال اخواننا في غزه👈هذا امر الله وقدرنا والحمد لله ...
Worst decision of my country. I was 13 or 14 at the time. I'm ashamed of my country and what it has become.
@Jack Smith 'Jack', have you always been a smirking moron, or is this a recent character development? Steny has said something very genuine and it rings true, whereas you're here and elsewhere in the comments purely to troll and to throw garbage in the threads.... try to be a man instead of a reptile, it won't hurt you in the least.
@Jack Smith continue paying your tax for military arms to be sent on Ukraine to prolong the war
God Bless you son
@JackSmith-mk1ruYou are proud of the US's war crimes?
Good thing there are still good people in the West, it's just they couldn't easily learn the truth before it was too late, i respect the likes of you brother.
😞"There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn’t bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it’s hard to see, it’s important to understand that these people exist.”- Mia Farrow😞😞
Yes suffering caused by the US military industrial complex in cahoots with neo con chicken hawks.
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Was she talking about life under Saddam...?
We have spoken and discussed the illegal invasion for a long time
It is time now fir all the countries which collaborated in this uncivilised invasion to pay compensation for the material destruction caused to Iraq
The cost of humans lost cannot be compensated
It is also time to bring to book like Bush Blair and Obama and the others and to incriminate them in this war
It is all the more appropriate especially in the case of Blair and Obama have publicly admitted that the was a mistake
Now they must pay for the mistake
The mega media whovpushed for this war should also be made to be accountable for thei false reporting that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
It was clearly established that this was a manufactured lie by Bush and Blair
@@quinnishappy5309 the life under Saddam will never cost half of the people’s lives in Iraq, you the Yankees really did it in the race of the massacre people, since you do have a good record towards the North America Indians.
BUSH & BLAIR MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WAR CRIMES
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You Are Doing A Great JOB Sana , I Admire You Keep Putting The Truth Out There , Thank You ,,
So,beautifully explained.Every word,every sentence is exactly what I have always felt about this shameless,unnecessary war.Thank You!
Never forget the USS Liberty.
@@dudebro3250 USS Liberty?Is it a US naval ship?
@@dudebro3250 USS Liberty?Is it something I should be afraid of?
@@rohansyam7769 the attack on the USS Liberty has been covered up for decades.
Iraq is thought to have the fifth-largest oil reserves in the world, with an estimated 145 billion barrels of known reserves. This amounts to around 17 percent of the Middle East’s overall oil reserves and 8 percent of the world’s total reserves. Iraq also ranks second in OPEC’s Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (after Saudi Arabia) in terms of oil production.
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That was the real reason we invaded. We thought we would have cheap oil for the next hundred years.
@@artlover1477god will invade whole west
Also lots of gold. And Afghanistan had poppy fields (opium) and now opiates are a huge problem in USA.
I love how these people make us believe they defend human rights when in fact they are the ones provoking atrocities all around the world
The good guys were first to die..., but the truth is always uncovered don't worry
In all fairness, the US has saved 100s of millions of lives with food, medicine, technology, volunteerism. The US single handedly saved 10s of millions of deaths in Africa alone with AIDs medication, COVID vaccines, etc., etc., etc. NO OTHER country in the world has done as much! But I'm like you, I say screw Africa and everyone else!
Better to have let Hussein continue to brutalize his people I suppose. Always easy to blame someone else for one's problems.
I grew up hearing the horrors of what happened and how it affected and stills continues to affect my family , I was only born in 2008 but as I’m growing older my heart is broken , the stories I’ve heard from my family and how it has ruined our lives sadden me , we need justice , the innocent children that were killed need justice , the people still living with ptsd need justice they all need justice.
I was an undergraduate at university at the time. And I remember plenty of people around me, many of whom had multiple university degrees, telling me that I was wrong to oppose the invasion, that Iraq would send those missiles and "weapons of mass destruction" everywhere, that no one anywhere in the world would be safe, that we could all die. I mean, these were professionals, most of them, who actually bought all this shit. I didn't know at the time, all those years ago, why it was so hard for people to think critically, to avoid making sweeping generalisations, to cross-reference information, to engage in open, respectful intellectual discourse. I guess reading misinformation or lies and watching really disturbing images on television can do things to the human mind. I know now that media sources are powerful weapons that can, and often will, help governments sell anything. Anything for "peace"! And "peace" sells!
I mean Sadam did invade Kuwait and wage war against Iran, but dind't the US wage wars in Vietnam and nuke Japan? it's good when you do it, but bad 4 every1 else, eh? lol
Merica loves stupid sheep
Proud of this. Well done AJ+ and Dena
War criminals need to be brought to justice.
Watching the same thing play over in the invasion of Gaza...history has a strange way of repeating itself.
People have a short memory. The hypocrisy of Western world has no limit.
This nightmare haunted me and my acquaintances for 20 years. I remember when I was 10 this stupid war began. Shameful. 😢
Imagine the nightmare the Kurds had to endure under Saddam! I wish he was released in the streets of Halabja instead of being hanged like a rat
Are you in Iraq?
And ?
@@haweeyaosman2930what a stupid question. I don’t have to be horrified by something just because I live there. I can be appalled at how needlessly people die.
This is exactly the reason why I believe there is heaven and hell because maybe the culprit will get away from punishments in this world but the real justice will be served in the hereafter
Yes the powerful people like Bush and Putin may possibly escape justice in this life but not after.
@@olivialim7541 I’m not talking about Putin I’m talking about George Bush
@@olivialim7541 US has been invading countries for years without any good reason, and now putin is invading so they call him a war criminal. This is why i think putin's war is justified in a sense to get back at america, but bush should be in prison for life i think.
Thank you for sharing these information about my country
Why is that the media don't even bother discussing the cost of innocent lives, children's, men women, old young lost life . Those who survived life will never be same.
You are a highly knowledgeable news reporter, for your reporting is never fraught with baseless sensational comments! Citing authoritative historical sources in a reporting is undeniably the way professional journalism ought to report news. My subscription assured and thnx again for your quality chronicles!
I recently returned to Iraq for a visit after having been there as a soldier in 2007. It was amazing how kindly the Iraqis treated me. I love the Iraqi people.
Wow,that destroys everything Christian Nationalists and bootlickers of Zionists insist upon labeling of Arab people in general. I served in the Military with Palestinian Americans both Muslim and Christian and worked besides them in the VA system. They are very hospitable people.
They should have taken your head or eye's
You don't deserve this kind treatment. Your life should have been destroyed as ours were destroyed
If the iraqus has invaded your country.. Occupied it and killed thousands.. Would you welcome them with open arms I wonder?
That’s true. If it would be westerners they would have burned you.
Thank you for this
Im an iranian and im really sorry for every iraq watching this video, hoping you guys the best! ❤❤❤
Iran is next
watch out! the warmongers that are the US and Israel wanna killed all of you for more war profits.
Live is bad bro ❤love you from iraq
@@Love_hardworkI love Iran
@@عبداللهجميل-ث1ج ok, where are you from?
The ICC should issue warrant for Bush, Blair and Biden.
I 100% agree plus don't forget Cheney and Rice too 😌
They can't, the US would invade The Hague if any ICC judge dares to start a trial on any US official or politician.
Add Madeline Albright too
My thoughts exactly after hearing about the ICC arrest Warrent issued out on putin
Don’t forget Obama
Bush walks free. Blair walks free. But PUTIN gets indicted by the ICC.....
For kidnapping
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It's laughable! !
In an objectively just world, they both would be, but unfortunately the current international system is based on Anglo-American power projection, therefore, the ICC's authority is based on their primacy in the international order. That means American and British leaders, and their close allies are more or less exempt from the ICC's authority unless they willingly submit to it's authority. Had there been an acute and extreme backlash to the Iraq war and opposition parties gained power in either country based on promises to make those leader's be held accountable, then there might have been some maneuvers to turn them over to the ICC, but that didn't happen, unfortunately. For me though, Bush was a willing stooge in all this; he was too stupid to come up with this on his own. The true master minds were Cheney and Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld is dead, and Cheney is not too far behind. Powell is dead too, so that leaves Rice, but her culpability is not as big as those top 3, imo.
They all walk free. You didn't think there was justice in this world for the elite, did you?
This is when humanity and morals fall...and then the Law of the jungle starts...the strong exists and the weak perished.....
Free 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇵🇸
That freudian slip in 11:19 still gets me. It's truly legendary.
Divine intervention.
Obama’s slip “we’re speeding up training of IsIL forces..” Still gets me.
he was joking, he done this many times..
@@joellee6142 what joke
@@kalijasin What's amazing is that nobody is calling them out for it.
Awesome Job !...we will never Forget Iraq 😢
That last clip of Buch is Sickening bro!
Thank you sister continue enlightening us...
American rulers and administrators should be tried and prosecuted if they do wrong as well.
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I feel their pain, we have committed a crime on their people.
Don't be surprised when in the future they did something horrendous to your people.
Thank you for making this video!!!
A beautiful country, language, history, people, such a tragedy what happened.
It's a country that some Western imperialists drew on a map 100 years ago. That's why the various factions and tribes started their civil wars the second America took a mass murdering thug off their necks.
@@drmodestoesqthe only mass murdering thug are the US president. Wait till someone dismantles the US government and we'll see how civilized these barbaric Ameritard people are.
I don’t know how this isn’t regarded as a holocaust
Iraqi’s aren’t considered European🤷🏾♂️
@@charlemeH The West only care about "human rights abuses" and "massacres" when it isn't in their favor. "Never again" they say, as they continue to perpetrate the exact crimes they critisize when it suits them
Because it wasn't. Stick to the the definition of the words and don't trivialize them. That doesn't amend any wrongs, nor does it get us closer to the truth.
It was an invasion but it wasn’t a ‘Holocaust’. Last I heard, US and British soldiers didn’t round up Iraqis and then put them in concentration camps until they work to death. I’m pretty sure they didn’t gassed and execute special needs people either.
...now you know who is behind world changeing events. You nailed it bro .
That was some epic Freudian slip of the tongue from Bush, one for the history books
Excellent commentary ❤❤❤
Thank you for showing the fact and ground reality of Iraq
Wait! Will be visible censure of irak..!criminals British.... no talk about Ukraine logo?loves much Ukraine now? 😅Species Ukraine left with 5 days before in mantain at others faster. Different with irak situation no? Mammal British said because Comunists for that did it invading irak... What means Comunists? Because brirish makes 8 infections in 4 females? And diseases and infections? Because Britain are full with diseases. Means are Comunists....
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They had the right to invade Iraq because Iraq invaded Kuwait
@@jalenthomas7210 That invasion was dealt with ( during the 'First Iraq War' ). The Second Iraq War was based upon fabricated pretexts. That is not 'conspiracy theory', it was transparent at the time and even prior to the invasion, the U.S. State Department manufactured justifications to invade Iraq ( supposed possession of WMD and other pretexts), Hans Blix (Google him, and what his role was in Iraq at that time) said clearly that their was no evidence to substantiate U.S. claims that Iraq had WMD stockpiles. It was a U.S. war of aggression, not for the stated claim of being to depose Hussein, but to allow U.S. companies access and control over Iraq's oil reserves and to achieve hegemony in the region.
I well remember this at the time. I wasn't even what would be called a liberal then, and I could see how empty were the administration's arguments in support of invasion. Yet the advertising campaign was so carefully sculpted as to be largely effective in the face of reason. So many people seemed happy and proud that the US was flexing its muscles, so to speak, that they just didn't care about the outcome, and because of that, to this day, we are all still paying the price.
As an Nepalese, I stand with Iraqi People Not Corrupt Iraqi Government
Im from iraq tysm 💓
20 years ago we had Army recruiters at our high schools trying to get kids to sign up to fight in the war. Telling us that after we came back home, the Gl bill would get us free ride through college. I didn’t sign up, but so many of my generation did. How many didn’t make it home? I know several of my classmates didn’t. The ones that did were never the same.
Karma hit them hard and that is a happyending for innocent Iraqis, next time they will think twice before listening to their criminal politicians who would never send their children to the war zone and at the same time lining their pocketswith millions. .
@@Koloviv48i wasn't karma just young kids looking to be better but not knowing what the cost was and listening to the lies
The poor folks are paying for the wealth of the power elite with their blood. Young people die for the decisions made by the old fks who don't have to risk their lives on the battlefield. Can't stand these government leaders who say they weep for the fallen. They shed a few drop of tears. The soldiers shed blood.
This is the problem I have with Americans. They feel so sorry for the few thousand soldiers who died. They don't care about 2 million iraqis blood. Pathetic
@@kingkazuma2239 Zero empathy for anyone that voluntarely participated in a massacre, thank you very much
"Modernization" often involves dismantling institutions that were already "westernized". First it was constitucional monarchies, then social democracy, and now neoliberalism.
شكرا جزيلا على هذا التقرير الجميل ❤
And now bush is freely roaming everywhere says how hypocrite is the law 😡🤬
❤️ Yes ! God Bless our George W Bush !
@@ronaldgrove3283stupid American 🤡😂
He is a war criminal but hey him and the vice president got super rich off rebuilding and war contracts. So it's ok. Now Cheneys daughter is holding political office.
@@ramehkhazen2223what do you trying to say
@@factsontheology I'm trying to say Bush and Cheney are murderers and deserve prosecution for knowingly causing the Iraq war and profiting from it.
Kudos to this New Reader. She explained the complex history of Middle East from 2004 onwards in a simple language.
It takes guts to make a video against your own country . Thanks for presenting an unbiased pov ❤
Guts?!?! Hell, EVERYONE IS DOING IT!
@@marsone5023 in UK there is also democracy but they never admit their past . My point was not about criticizing own government but to Admit the mistakes that their country committed.
Invading Iraq wasn't a mistake; the purpose was achieved, i.e., regime change and gaining access to the oil.
Simplicity ☝🏽
true dude,only oil for dead bodies
"Saying some things" and "Doing other things" and "The intentions are another things"...These 3 sentences are the same actions that Bush and people around him done.
What you say is "Shameless Honesty" and it is running in the very core of any American, mostly in politician because they got the notion that they are above everyone in the world and they can do everything.
The outcome is million of Iraqi suffered since!
Ppl here are talking about right or wrong. What's yours?
Well documented 👌🏻
11:30 That slip of the tongue is priceless.
Disgusting and horrific slaughter of innocent men women and children, yet the perpetrators are still free to carry on their lives!
IRAQ INVASION WAS ABOUT OIL
Brigadier-General James Ellery CBE, the Foreign Office's Senior Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad since 2003, had confirmed the critical role of Iraqi oil reserves in alleviating a "world shortage" of conventional oil. The Iraq War has helped to head off what Ellery described as "the tide of Easternisation" - a shift in global political and economic power toward China and India, to whom goes "two thirds of the Middle East's oil." His remarks were made as part of a presentation at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, sponsored by the Iraqi Youth Foundation, on 22nd April 2008.
"Iraq holds the key to stability in the region", Ellery continued, due to its "relatively large, consuming population," its being home to "the second largest reserve of oil - under exploited", and finally its geostrategic location "on the routes between Asia, Europe, Arabia and North Africa - hence the Silk Road."
no mate its about spreading dimocracy 😂😅
أنا عراقي، منذ حرب امريكا ضد بلدنا والى يومنا هذا بلدنا يعاني من سوء الخدمات، انقطاع الكهرباء، عدم توفر سبل العيش الاساسية، الفقر، التشرد والإرهاب. لقد دمرت امريكا كل شيء
يعيش اربعين مليون عراقي في تصارع مع الحياة الان😢
Excellent, fair minded report. And sadly, U.S blundering continues, with great loss of life.