The Unravelling 2: Saddam at War

[@azizmarhoon8355]

As an Iraqi these guys are saying facts about how the situation was before 03

[@j0hnicide]

god bless iraq. love from USA.

[@azizmarhoon8355]

john lim god bless the US bro , lived in the Midwest for couple years and loved it

[@longbong32]

This is the funniest Jocko Willink video ever!! 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnuWhGCCfpynkKc 🔥

[@azizmarhoon8355]

Lexi Williams 😂😂😂😂it is

[@itz_premium]

This history is over a dozen centuries long. They barely scratch the surface of why the conflict in the Middle East (sorry if that isnt PC, but we all know what I mean) will never subside. If you have read Sword and Scimitar (Raymond Ibrahim) or Infidels Guide (any of them by Robert Spencer) you will begin to see that almost no amount of good will, or money spent, or favors garnered, there will always be a select subsection of religious extremists ( no matter how great or minor the percentage of the aggregate population) who will always feel a religious compulsion to fight infidels. I didn't say Westerners, or Capitalists... Infidels. Anyone who doesn't submit to the teachings of Mohammed. This began with the Byzantine Empire I believe (Christians and eventually Jewish races). Hopefully the can do an episode this podcast discussing the latent history of this religion and this part of the globe, and hopefully help people understand that this is a conflict as old as the religion itself. *JUST SPEAKING OBJECTIVELY, (given my research into this up till now) NO OFFENSE GIVEN TO ANY SUBJECT OF ANY RACE OR RELIGION* Please correct me if I am out of line.

[@CaseyBurnsInvesting]

Most people don’t know why we fight. Thanks for sharing your story.

[@MrYzig-tf3yw]

Most people are uneducated. Saddam was innocent.

[@ondrejbordovsky7752]

Man who the hell are you? I see your comments under almost every video I watch and always at the top

[@justinsimmons2961]

I see I’m not the only one fixing to get after it at 3:30 AM. Thank you Echo perfect timing.

[@JoeHoag]

My father was present during the thunder run to Baghdad, and was there on a second deployment when they captured Saddam Hussein. I have nothing but love and respect for all service members. Thank you Jocko, and whoever else is reading this that might’ve served.

[@seamus7d]

These episodes are really special

[@bb7549]

Really good content gentlemen, people need to hear this. Now days these podcast should be required listening for high school and college students.

[@leijiang7341]

I very much admire the objectivity these two gentlemen bring into the conversation.

[@MagicMarker447]

Col. Douglas McGregor would be a great guest. He in charge of a tank group at the Battle of 73 Easting.

[@mikeypancakes_17]

How do we make peace with the fact that the U.S. backed Sadam? Rumsfeld went in 83?

[@griftinggamer]

We don't. We realize it's all a sham and we should tend our own country.

[@IamN0-1]

It takes a LIFETIME of good works to cultivate a good man---- But it takes a single bad moment to make a monster. Such is life

[@bluev7427]

This series is seriously underrated

[@Je.rone_]

I was up grinding at 3am us eastern time when this was posted, it was motivating to see this posted

[@MrBuffalosoldier34]

A lot of people foget that we had a professional military who was trained to fight a large armored force that the Soviets had all the way up into the 90s. Where tanks and planes were expected to kill 5 of their's to every one loss of ours where we had doctrine to meet the Soviet union anywhere in the world to fight. If given the American military the chance to fight like it is suppose to do with possible casualties theres no way we would of lost... we werent going to use WW1 tacticss the Iraq and Iranians used against each other we were taught to move fast and aggressive even in a defensive posture. Thank you for your show and your service.

[@muffledgiraffe4303]

A sadist enjoys causing varying level of pain to others. A murderer has already taken a human life. I would assume many murderers are sadists, but not many sadists are murderers.

[@narcoleptic-insomniac4663]

Thank you both.

[@hirumbiffidum9145]

Well yeah, Jocko would know the horrors all too well, after all he did say a lot of his UDT/SEAL missions were in Ramadi, what's scary is everything described may very well be still happening now :(

[@hirumbiffidum9145]

@Alan Hardcastle Are you related to that Los Angeles Superior Court judge that living at that estate on Gulls Way in Santa Monica back in the early 1980's ?

[@hirumbiffidum9145]

@Alan Hardcastle www.google.com/search?q=hardcastle+and+mccormick+seasob+one+opener+with+intro&oq=hardcastle+and+mccormick+seasob+one+opener+with+intro&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.18206j0j9&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8# well, maybe not that random !

[@ciara8294]

This is the funniest Jocko Willink video ever!! 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnuWhGCCfpynkKc 😆

[@logosofgame4273]

In terms of people disbelieving that you could accidentally shoot down a civilian airliner. It is way easier for something like that to happen than you think. During the Falklands conflict, the royal navy task group was regularly shadowed by an Argentinian military plane that would retreat when discovered. On one occasion they detected the plane and were ready to shoot it down with sea dart anti-air missiles. The commander of the fleet however decided at the last minute to send a Sea Harrier up to check and see for certain. Turns out it was a civilian airliner. That is how close you can get to really bad mistakes when in war.

[@freezapop3215]

Interesting! wasn't really expecting this to come out on KZbin, even if there are no reason why it wouldn't...

[@elbatallon1]

I love what you’re doing here. The Jocko history book On Iraq/Afghanistan war

[@elbatallon1]

Jocko for president

[@Kunfucious577]

Thie podcast would be winning awards if it was approved by the mainstream media. One thing i cant get over from this podcast is how evil the media is.

[@averysoutdoorlifestyle8088]

Incredibly saddening to hear these stories! Thank you guys for your service in trying to eradicate the evil 👊🏼

[@HomeshighlandPark]

Jockos idea of being a king is watching Netflix and chilling. If only these tyrants would think that way

[@mcb2206]

Found your podcasts a couple months ago. By far one of the best things on youtube. Stories and life lessons all should hear. So please hear this slight criticism knowing i'd like to see nothing but success for your channel. Have your guests pull their mics closer or do a sound check if possible. Example- i can hear you loud and clear at volume 14 but have to crank it up to 25 to clearly hear this guest. Makes it almost impossible to watch for those of us with hearing issues.

[@sarahfriend324]

From Vermont! And you're absolutely right.

[@Skottink]

I know this is a touchy subject but Jocko your a honest bad ass man. I think you should have Rob O’Neill on your show. I get why you don’t but I would like to see it. Thanks for the content brother.

[@sargondinkha9827]

Some of my family lived in kerkook. We are Assyrian Orthodox.

[@TicketMaster117]

I thought one of the reasons Iraq invaded Kuwait was due to Kuwait sideway oil drilling? Wasn’t it proven they were tapping into oil reserves that technically belonged to Iraq and pumping the market dropping the price per barrel causing a recession in Iraq?

[@bh5817]

How many podcasts do you have now lol

[@rickyporter6450]

Hey Jocko, run for president. You got my vote for sure. We need a guy that understands these things from experience.

[@ForestJoe]

Jocko is heaven's present to humanity.

[@clarkevans1846]

In 96 when I was in Bosnia one of the Bradley fighting vehicles on the perimeter locked onto another Bradley on the perimeter....vehicles had been manning the perimeter for about the extent of the tour there.

[@goinhot9133]

These are invaluable.

[@DavidTheAssyrian]

Kuwait is an Iraqi province, has been since the days of Babylon.

[@munch15a]

so is this a re filming of the one I watched before is it re releasing ?

[@donnymillls3445]

I think jocko just recorded a new intro explaining why it disappeared and name change etc, then the rest is a re release. episode 1 you see the stuff on the desk disappear when they actually get into it.

[@perryknight9234]

Operation Northern Watch provided air cover for the Kurds after Provide Comfort. Similar to Southern Watch, it was a no-fly zone buffer above the 36th parallel

[@james87367]

Jocko your podcasts are top quality. I listen to them to the finish. Amazing content.

[@18ipmg]

The terror within me as held together by a neatly tied bow.

[@sapprdaddy]

When will you have Richard Marcinko on the podcast?

[@derekdash5299]

The Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 that the Iranians shot down on January 8th, 2020 was not flying into Iran, it was shot down minutes after taking off from Tehran - an important fact to note.

[@louiss.w1944]

The biggest method this podcast promotes is that iraq is now better off after the invasion

[@michaelgoulding6654]

Jocko"watch Netflix n chill" Willink

[@Travis_Bickle_76]

Awesome rundown of facts

[@owengillett8871]

9 people are incorrect

[@KathleenMcKay]

Kia Ora from New Zealand Echo Charles and Jocko. Lots of love from The Land of the Long White Cloud. Look us up if youz make it here xx

[@froschkenig]

I guess this was "The Thread"-Podcast, which is back now under a different flag?

[@SaveTheImage]

Yes it got copyrighted.

[@froschkenig]

@@SaveTheImage Thanks for clarification.

[@matthewgower]

“We would’ve been happy to make him the face of the Arab world” thank god he wasn’t calculated enough for that to happen.

[@SolarBear666]

We have the receipts for all of those weapons..

[@DeepTexas]

dude. jocko. thank you, man. you doing a dan carlin-esque deep dive on military history is mana.

[@john_smith_john]

Carlin is only pop history.

[@patrickfries6267]

I somehow disagree with the statement that the US soldiers were on the ground without some kind of help. Brave soldiers for sure but they surely got a heads up. Unlike stuff like Rhamadi where it was another ballgame I guess.

[@michaelcarter8209]

Outstanding

[@mwhitelaw8569]

My brother was the fire control technician On the Vincennes He called me shortly afterwards at ft bragg. He was horrified at what he saw You have to understand he had inbound gunboats attacking his position. And the plane being on the wrong frequency Well It was a very bad scene Unfortunately They punched the go button Mach 5 is hard to pull back once it's gone Me and him don't talk about the service much anymore.

[@emgmin]

Honestly... Honestly... Until I watched this series I would have said the war was a stupid mistake. Not anymore. And that is a bit on getting educated.

[@Will_i_am725]

Great job gentlemen. I appreciate your insights.

[@TheMainManBD]

Ooh 42:56

[@twobraincells4364]

I take sort of a Ron Paul stance on war, especially when it has to do with things or countries not directly significant with respect to national security...and when war has not been declared by congress. If Americans, in the interest of liberating the rest of the world want to do something, I believe the best way will be with persuasive ideas....that others want to imitate or emulate....in other words....influence revolution through more peaceful means. I think we should have done a better job investigating how and why 911 occurred. Good luck and thanks for all that you all do.

[@dpreston8831]

911 occurred because we’re a country for war and need to get all the oil...

[@twobraincells4364]

@@dpreston8831 I see it as a "reason' to do things....kinda like this covid thing...a 'reason" to do things. Things that "someone" or "some people" benefit from...

[@mitchellmoore3443]

@@twobraincells4364 so after finding out that there are things like starving children to death and feeding the corpse to the dogs you’re still okay with sitting around talking with your buddies about last weeks game, eating pizza gossiping about the new hot girl at work? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not denying the you that “someone” will benefit from going over and intervening, but “someone” will benefit from either choice. I’m way more okay with some random corporations benefiting than I am for some group of butchers benefiting.

[@twobraincells4364]

@@mitchellmoore3443 No idea wtf you just said cheers.

[@kaligoodz3750]

What happen to his other host he was good

[@brianpaap7046]

Its finally back.

[@typingarchetypes]

Can anybody recommend a book or two about this subject? (Saddams rise to power and then how that translates to war in Iraq etc.)

[@tillman40]

Dark Docs on KZbin

[@LeoMes01]

Socialist Iraq Modern History of Iraq Pro saddam stuff. Give you the other side of the story. Saddam did have good relations with the soviets. And the war crimes where overblown to manufacture consent for war

[@qwqwqwqw99]

It's sad that Saddam was a US ally and was sold weapons and chemical agents early in his career.

[@RevellAndRepend]

Very informative

[@agentorange20]

This can’t be true, the left media told me multiple times Saddam wasn’t a dictator, that he wasn’t persecuting religious persecution and he didn’t gas the Kurds and that we had no rights in removing him from power. /sarcasm

[@renewed6250]

No boots on the ground in Kosovo? Camp Bondsteel was stood up in April 1999, it is still there and we are still rotating troops into it. Kosovo, which is a little bigger than Rhode Island, has 23 different county's military present within it. While it is true that at the onset, then President Clinton 'attempted' to operate via air only, hindsight has shown that to be more of a distraction to his domestic issues. I cannot believe neither Jocko nor Mr. Cooper could remember very early on in that conflict, when three American soldiers were captured. I was in basic training at the time - and this is the image that greeted us in the chow hall: www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9904/01/nato.attack.02/

[@TheHarperbow]

Good evening comment thread.

[@teshomacalkins3257]

Good evening 👐🏾

[@opaca512]

HUA We found mass graves East of Baghdad in 2007. Sad what bad men with power will do to people of less power.

[@wsh6508]

Awesome show , ty . I would like to add one point , I believe we baited saddam. To invade Kuwait.

[@hotspurhal]

But did the U.S. put Saddam into power? Was he a us intelligence asset? What sort of practices are taught at the Army School of the Americas? Why not address these questions? If they're untrue, say it aint so...

[@francomlg]

I feel like I have watched this before. Wtf? 🤔

[@rivalsports6276]

I was thinking it was maybe an old thread episode just re titled

[@rivalsports6276]

Actually I just checked Apple podcast and the first two episodes of the thread were titled “defining the enemy” and “saddam at war” so they just re titled them and re uploaded them for sure. Episode 7 was the last one of the thread so episode 8 of this should be new.

[@CoDKnoedel]

the Iraqi army in 03 gave in so easyily because their generals were paid off

[@MrDMF567]

F-14s, not 15s

[@robertmuellerbillcallsmeBob]

And then he said "Trump, you never know what that guy's gonna do"...sorry, but you just delegitimized yourself Mr Nipple Shirt...!

[@KathleenMcKay]

and hello Marty xx

[@18ipmg]

You have to be an animal to control animals.

[@billylucious9137]

LMFAO

[@renewed6250]

This concept is cool, I like Jocko being able to discuss events in addition to books and interviews. Nice work Jocko and Mr. Cooper. One time in this episode, and one time episode 1, Mr. Cooper describes aspects of the Saddam regime that bear a resemblance to Christopher Hitchens' angle of observation. I do not believe Mr. Cooper 'lifted' these, I just think Hitch said it better: Specifically - the part in episode 1 where he says "anyone who things Saddam is bad..." doesn't know how evil he was. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZu3eX6AbrFkpJo Then in this episode (2) describing the 1979 coup (Mr. Cooper incorrectly describes it as Saddam reading the names himself, he does not - an already tortured party member is forced to read it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYOUiWawi5uLa7s It is slightly incorrect to say Ba'athism is 'secular' - this is true only in that it promotes separating religion and the state, having been founded by a Christian in a majority Muslim country, one can see why. That key founding member (Michel Aflaq) did convert to Islam though. It is impossible to separate the relationship of Islam, religion in general, from the atrocities of the Saddam regime. This is a guy who after all, commissioned a Quran to be written in his own blood, claimed to have done so, and put it on display. The anti-Jewish nature of the Ba'ath party really makes religion and the party inseparable. If you still doubt Islam played a role or was important to Saddam, watch his trial, and execution. I know the intent was not to provide a biography of Saddam, but when it was stated "Stayed with his uncle for a while..." - kind of glosses over the influence this uncle had, who showed him Nazi-ism as a good thing, anti-semitic/pro arab sentiment as a good thing, violence as a good thing, and the famous early arab leaflet he helped produce which stated "God only made two mistakes: flies and Jews".

[@tasfiatanzila]

‘Pro-Arab sentiment’ is not a bad thing.

[@renewed6250]

@@tasfiatanzila I love that out of all of that...that is what you got out of it. To clarify the reason why I have a slash there (easily cleared up by simply reading up on Ba'athism) is the fact that the doctrine explicitly cements together "anti Jew" and "pro Arab". But hey...why read or think, when you can take a quick troll moment and try to be PC without a second thought?

[@renewed6250]

@Anima L Yes that is true. Depending on what being 'pro' means in the ideology. Again...it says very plainly that the two are meshed in the ideology. And, I already had to underline that for another person. And, this should be known about the Ba'athism party. Simply read the reply I gave the other person as if it was addressed to you.

[@renewed6250]

@Anima L oh boy. I need not be gauged. Gauge the statement, not the person. Ba'athism is inspired by Nazi party. If you don't know that I am sorry. Similarly, if you don't know that "if a thief is caught by a thief, they are still a thief" is a fact, to construe otherwise is a fallacy, I can't help you much there either. Yes, most religions, especially monotheisms, are riddled with racism and slavery. This simply does not detract from the antisemitism BUILT IN the Ba'ath party ideology. I am blown away by the level to which people can miss a point, or, be unwilling to read thoroughly.

[@renewed6250]

@Anima L Wow. 1 - nothing I stated "blocks or prevents" (or has anything to do with) criticism of Israel 2 - the only "mental gymnastics" happening here is when someone says "Ba'ath party is bad, yadda yadda" someone thinks a reasonable reply to that is "hey, why cant israel be criticized?" Yes of course it can, it is as much a country of domination by religion as saudi arabia. Has NOTHING to do with what was being stated however. 3 - "you cant govern..." who are you to claim that? And yes democracy is human inevitability. 4 - anyone who can say "some countries need fascist dictators" without laughing cant see the irony of their own stupidity 5 - If you think fascist dictatorship "prevents" civil wars I guess my advice to you is READ more. Books are so cheap these days.

[@benh580]

Hope they look into what china is doing.

[@dm20422]

✨

[@billylucious9137]

M.O. Live as long as possible and learn while freedom vstill exists+~

[@18ipmg]

Brutal shit.

[@clydeglide2041]

I’m so tired of “You don’t know what Trump is going to do.” Please tell me what biden is going to do. What ever it is, it will be wrong. Regret your 2020 vote?

[@billylucious9137]

lmao... Never+

[@Adam-gf3jg]

American propaganda.