New video shows invasion of Iraq | 20 years later

When thousands of United States troops from Georgia’s Fort Stewart and Fort Benning invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, one was an Army specialist with a camcorder, Robert Ayres.
Ayres was an infantryman deployed at a makeshift camp in the Kuwaiti desert a few weeks earlier called Camp Pennsylvania.
As Army troops ramped up to cross the nearby Iraqi border, he trained his camcorder on some of his comrades-in-arms.
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[@Bilangumus]

1 millions civilians died for nothing.

[@wilburbrickowski]

If America didn’t do anything millions more would’ve died.

[@azmicaseer8584]

Because of americans

[@whytho2714]

@@azmicaseer8584 ‘islamists’

[@azmicaseer8584]

@@scallen3841 don't justify your brutality

[@HenkBoshoff]

​@@wilburbrickowski Yes, the US insists it was a justified war, to this day. So it must be true

[@itsnesogaming3217]

What that guy said is true. Iraqis hated Americans when they stayed and people knew the war wasn’t about Saddam but about oil and resources

[@ServantOfTheSouth]

Welcome to the real world where you have to supply your military and people and make a profit to survive sadly this generation and the idiots that follow them can’t understand that and act like this is some sort of fairy tale kids game it’s been happening since the beginning of time only difference is back then there weren’t pu**ie* everywhere to whine and document it.

[@7thMorphSr.]

Yes, it's true America stole oil in Iraq

[@mostafaeldeh1064]

Very true

[@subjectc7505]

And the false claims of "WMD"

[@hazeshi6779]

Saddam did actually use WMDs on the Kurt's.

[@shpellariking4943]

Rich's man's war. Poor's man's fight

[@TUEE2]

That’s every war lol. Welcome to the real world.

[@Noor_al_Furqan]

It's crazy how they flipped morality on its head and had us thinking that invading a country is fine, but the residents of that country fighting back is bad.

[@Johnsmith-fz2dm]

You know absolutely nothing about Saddams Iraq if thats your take on it. Those "residents" you're talking about were blowing up mosques and markets full of the "wrong" muslims, most of the civilian casualties were a result of that civil war and the forces of al qaeda killing shia muslims.

[@nulnoh219]

@@Johnsmith-fz2dmStill happening... So, Americans died fighting for what again? Who got rich?

[@QuattroSG]

Thats the american way, lie and twist the truth until people believe it

[@sal-the-man]

@@QuattroSG They are deluded with their "Freedom🦅" "Democracy". And spreading it around the world.

[@federalreservebrown2507]

that is actually the jew ish way, americans have been suckered, like 109 other countries@@QuattroSG

[@sergpinto1]

Iraque people don’t have the right to defend her selves, but Ukrainian have the right to be defended. Strange world 😢

[@stefan4159]

Ukraine is a liberal democracy, Iraq was a totalitarian regime. There's no equivalency between the two.

[@sergpinto1]

@@stefan4159 you blieve that is diferent to invade a country, seriously!

[@stefan4159]

@@sergpinto1 Yes, they are different cases. How one feels about Iraq invasion is absolutely irrelevant. Also, Bush was not trying to annex Iraqi land, whereas Putin is trying to recreate the Soviet Union by wiping off Ukraine from the map.

[@yussufcadow4321]

​@@stefan4159 But the consequences are the same innocent people died

[@stefan4159]

@@yussufcadow4321 And you don't think innocent people would have also died if Saddam, a brutal dictator, had been allowed to remain in power? And then passing on power to his sons who were literal psychopaths, and would have made Assad look like a teddy bear if the Arab Spring had come to Iraq? This is what we are dealing with here... the lesser of two evils...

[@moeezart835]

I was just 12 years old living a normal and a happy life. I still remember waking up with my family around 2-3 am and hearing distant sounds of bombing. We turned the radio on and the first thing we heard bush’s voice declaring the war. As a kid, I didn’t understand how that moment was the end of peace and happiness and how chaos and death was waiting for us.

[@BurkinBiila]

I feel your pain, never again 💪🏽

[@diesel3694]

And now American weapons are killing us... greetings from Russia

[@BurkinBiila]

@Khalid I’m from sub-sahara, we fighting as I speak against colonial forces on our territory. We know brother ✊🏽

[@caezero2072]

shut up! we liberated you! 🇺🇸

[@BurkinBiila]

@@caezero2072 USA is about to receive a sample of « freedom » anyway, y’all gon see how it feel to be liberated

[@tylor2596]

I was 15 that year and my father has died in that day as an Iraqi fighter 😔 It was a horrible day..

[@watersandblue6001]

sorry for your loss

[@facuuu2809]

My sincere condolences, the invasion of Iraq was barbaric

[@tylor2596]

@@watersandblue6001 Thank u so much Sir 🙏

[@watersandblue6001]

@@tylor2596 but your people brought so much darkness to the world and did 9/11. So your not innocent in this... just saying. But as a kid losing your father is tragic god bless

[@humayunali5663]

​@@watersandblue6001 you are still living in dilution 9/11 was a strategy by your government to get a reason to invade a country.. Not even a single jew died in that 9/11 , it was all christians who died

[@ernestjohnson1807]

I still cry at night from the things I did over there. Can't help but to think about the mother's crying for thier lost sons.

[@ElGaymer2001]

When did you serve?

[@tommytomas-fr3sh]

that is because you are the bad guy, the real terrorist! Being part of an evil deed.. will not go away until you die.

[@gregorio3139]

Those lost sons were patriots fighting for their own country

[@echoz4616]

@@gregorio3139 Fucking rude

[@dieglhix]

Why don't come back to Iraq and do some good deeds? Maybe you heal your spirit a little bit

[@MrRich-ux2iz]

Legend says they're still lookin' for weapons of mass destruction

[@johnrambo1349]

Yet out of all the countries in the world. USA is still the only one who ever used a weapon of mass destruction....twice. lmao

[@tut1]

do you know they were killing civilians there? watch there interviews on YT please they were make sex with any girl they found in any place even into her family!!! there are a 4soldiers make a sex with 14 years girl and killed her parents while they making that f** sex and she hearing the bullets sound! ! you can find that story told by one of those soldiers BTW

[@jesuscisneros2555]

Lol😅

[@nuclear_nadal7494]

They are just good at killing civilians with drones and nuclear bombs. Their intel is shit.

[@gitfoad8032]

'Curveball' had already been ditched by German intel as not credible long before US-UK blackstate ran with it. All lies.

[@lisavauhti7675]

Nobody can get over the ptsd by saying "I just did my job". More veterans have gone with their own hand than they lost in action

[@mr.hunter4215]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aojKiaGvgNx0ba8 So let their jobs benefit them. The foolish George Bush implicated them in a losing war, in which thousands died.

[@newlevelgamer5879]

Long live the U.S.A 💪🏻🇺🇸🔥❤️

[@realnapster1522]

Nazis also said that they were just following orders to gas Jews.

[@Summitic]

The guilt and regrets must be tormenting them

[@oiitzME1266]

I once drank with an iraq veteran. We were half way thru the whiskey bottle where he just suddenly broke down in hysterical crying...he spoke of how he had to shoot kids.. really dark stuff ..this was a homeless vet ..he was a young man too proly no older than 35 at the time

[@fatimaassir1228]

The injustice of this war still hurts

[@abrarbinnoman6112]

Did the same mistake 40 years ago in Vietnam prior to the Invasion of Iraq. History repeats itself and they never learn from it.

[@dobtv5008]

Sad to think they where just brainwash and sent to the wrong place

[@COOKIEMONSTER90]

Looks like they learned a lot. Now they start the war without their own participation. Just “prepare” two other nations and voila, you’re having a war and not getting your army into it

[@Jittrippin2050]

They also tried to invade Cuba bro how many times they have failed.

[@BobJason1]

@@Jittrippin2050 lol what 😂 Cuba has technology from the 1950’s, if we wanted to invade Cuba - it wouldn’t be hard. Also Vietnam wasn’t a mistake, leaving Vietnam was a mistake.

[@irdorath356]

@@BobJason1 Turned out be impossible. Ever heard of the bay of pigs? 1950s was quite modern by that time.

[@xxSweetStrangerxx]

What a complete waste of my tax money. 20 years later wasted and defeated.

[@giovannigiorgio2262]

all for Israel

[@snafuperman]

How many attacks were prevented because of this war? If attacks happened, you’d all cry, “why didn’t we invade sooner?” You must study and read before being part of a herd.

[@giovannigiorgio2262]

@@snafuperman no one want attack usa Saddam dont like Israel the western puppet lol

[@Bilangumus]

1 millions civilians died for nothing.

[@Bilangumus]

@@snafuperman Proof ? Zero. WHat attacks ???

[@girl_x]

America, what have you done to my country 🥺😢🇮🇶 , u killed us for no reason at all 💔💔💔

[@user-tp8tt9ru8n]

U talk to soulless poultry

[@travis8850]

@@user-tp8tt9ru8n No, they're not talking about your mother.

[@user-tp8tt9ru8n]

@@travis8850 Visit psychiatry

[@user-wz3bn2vw2o]

​@@travis8850 لو كنتم شجعان لما جلبتم تحالف دولي ضدنا قاومنا ودافعنا عن نفسنا لآخر لحضة ومع فرق القوة أرسلنا الآلاف من جنود بلدك للجحيم

[@aussieboy77]

Saddam killed many of your fellow Iraqis when he was in power. Why don't you care about that?

[@khalidal-shammari8839]

Humanity will never forget those who murmured and tortured one million people in the name of freedom and democracy shame on humanity to forgive those criminals

[@MrX-il2jt]

Like u would punish them😂😂

[@ThatisnotHair]

1 million is Exxageration. More like 250 thousand

[@redlion45]

​@@MrX-il2jt god will sort them out.

[@redlion45]

​@@ThatisnotHair no, 250K MINIMUM. That was the minimum estimate because the US was too lazy to do an actual count. The actual numbers are well over a million.

[@whitetiger9974]

​@@MrX-il2jtGod would.

[@rajdeeproy8182]

And these people are condemning Putin. Hypocrisy at its extreme.

[@lcpl.dickhead0311]

So because one country government did something u feel is "wrong" in the past under a different president, it makes what putin is doing rn right that's that's stupid ass logic

[@sirbacon1617]

Its so easy to understand but some how you cant? A leader of the US said that we were going to war. The first part of the war was fine like in this documentary but then they didnt pull us out. Its stupid to hate on the civilians when they disagree with something another country is doing being that the civilians/soldiers are not the ones that chose to go to war. Thats like me hating on russian civilians because their leader is making them go to war. The Iraq invasion is pointless and so is the Ukraine invasion. The US shouldnt have been in Iraq long and Russia shouldnt be in Ukraine.

[@rajdeeproy8182]

@@sirbacon1617 You live in the US, I assume. Given the history of the US, and as you point out , the fact that the president's power is not restricted (tough it prides itself as a democracy) ,a sovereign nation must possess the ability to defend itself. Given the untrustworthiness of US leaders, the expansion of NATO can't be allowed. If you see a venomous snake that has killed two people in front of you, slowly creep towards you, do you let it bite you first or do you kill it at once? So Putin is securing a buffer zone between NATO nations and his country, it's the only way he can secure his interests. As you yourself say, your leaders are whimsical and don't give a damn about international laws . And the fact that Putin's popularity surged in Russia after the start of the SMO, is proof that Russians support the operation.

[@Gunit867899]

Dont be a dumbass. These 2 wars have very little in common

[@user-vz3lu1ek1t]

Say that to the people of Donbass who are being oppressed since 2014.

[@Susceptiblehs]

I was born in 2003 March 9 Thanks to god I’m still alive Iraq is stand again for a shine future We will never forget a million Iraqis Long live Iraq 🇮🇶

[@visiblebutlost4089]

Americans will pay for their crimes

[@omarassmi9786]

Go iraq to glory syria is with you brothers ❤

[@RznRamazanovRT]

Храни вас Аллах брат, и я надеюсь что войны будут обходить стороной. Привет из России)

[@Susceptiblehs]

@@RznRamazanovRT 🇮🇶🤍🇷🇺

[@diselshop3050]

@@omarassmi9786 also Taliban for your glory to hell

[@luiscarlospallaresascanio2374]

Those in Iraq who defended themselves from the invasion were treated as terrorists, even as some fought against Saddam.

[@le_toys9442]

The real terrorist is the one who invade other countries and make a deal in resources with forces. 😅

[@lapermits6193]

The IQ of these young soldiers is sad.... because they dont even know why they are fighting.

[@Gwiffinschtein]

As an Australian I am absolutely ashamed of my countrie's part in this illegal and unjustified war. May God bring all believing peoples and nations together.

[@ahmedgj8304]

اشكر مشاعرك وأسفك لكن بعض دول المجاوره شاركت بالحرب وشعوبها ترفض الاعتذار

[@californiausa7622]

I still don't' why the USA invaded Iraq? I have never seem a good enough reason good enough for a invasion. Don't blame your country it was not there fault''

[@MrX-il2jt]

@@californiausa7622 haha ha for oil buddy ,, just like Russia is doing for territory

[@moneyman24258]

@@californiausa7622 yessss america giving out freedom for resources

[@pear-zq1uj]

@@californiausa7622 because they were fresh out of 9/11 and looking to get revenge, they just successfully toppled Afghanistan and wanted to do it again. It has nothing to do with oil, that's pure bs, American companies never drilled oil in Iraq.

[@mywellnessjourney-kk3sx]

I remember watching it on TV. A lot happened in twenty years. Imagine another twenty years from now...

[@josephgriffin2388]

Imagine the last 20 years WITH Hussein in power. Friggin' nightmare!!!

[@pererikahlman7339]

So what

[@gitfoad8032]

Still be telling the neuro-tech torture-murder scum of the 'police' in Brit to eat shit.

[@tucker4173]

it's kinda unironic when America talks about peace and humanity given what they did to Iraq and many other countries in the world.

[@user-tp8tt9ru8n]

And they're proud to show they're not hiding it

[@syedjabir8141]

In reality, us is a nasty country in this planet

[@Greg_Deep]

I lost 6 brothers in this war

[@apparition_83]

Good Christ. War is hell dude, I hope you’re feeling a little better.

[@federalreservebrown2507]

you spelled fraud wrong

[@georgebelev1900]

And I don't give a fuck about your brothers

[@ivybannerman-wood453]

I gave birth to my youngest son on 20.03.2003, through emergency C section, when I came round from the general anesthesia, and able to make sense of the world I was told the war started. And since than, I always remember and pray for pregnant women who were in labour on that day and what happened to them. The fearful feeling still resonate with me every anniversary of the war.

[@rishabhadarsh5227]

Hmm

[@jamesmain8395]

Llĺlllllĺllllllllĺlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllĺl?

[@javo5270]

were you in iraq at that time?

[@TopG20073]

Wait, I was born of 20/3/2007, exact 4 year difference

[@alejandrorodriguez9554]

Humans!

[@realnapster1522]

It’s funny how Americans are now calling Putin a war criminal. Hypocrisy should have some limits. 😂

[@ordinarydude2237]

They'd be even more of a hypocrite had they not taken action against the same thing they had done Grow up, you'll be doing a lot of hypocrisy yourself

[@subjectc7505]

​@@ordinarydude2237 Russia reason for invading is BS but it is some good reasons as well. Aside from restoring the USSR.

[@ordinarydude2237]

@Subject C You can say that to the US too, at the end of the day. They both brought more problems than solutions with their actions

[@akhsdenlew1861]

@@ordinarydude2237 it's exactly the same... Both cases, there's a superpower that uses an "Excuse" to invade. But at least USA is not annexing land like we live in the age of empires of 1800.

[@champ7846]

@@akhsdenlew1861 they had reason for invading donbas but attacking kiev and Odessa they dont have a reason too

[@Patrioticbeing]

Imagine killing one million people and calling it a mistake

[@user-tp8tt9ru8n]

I don't know if it's funny or sad anymore honestly

[@syedjabir8141]

Us politicians and civilians should be ashamed of this. Don't u think..

[@chummygun]

​@@syedjabir8141the american civilians did nothing.

[@UserHandle454]

​@@chummygunsay that to the Iraqi civilians who died too

[@chummygun]

@@UserHandle454 can't because their dead 🤷

[@freetamilnaduandsouthfromi2984]

From native Americans to African slaves to Vietnamese to Iraqis

[@batman_2004]

US invades multiple countries. Europe : I sleep. 🥰😀 Russia invades one country. Europe : Real $hit. 😡🤬

[@ablorenz]

Cause unlike USA, Russia is a European country that invades neighboring European countries? Think about it.

[@revolutionariesoffreedom2374]

USA destroys dictators Russia destroys democracies So europe hates Russia and glorifies USA

[@aliefemu9755]

Because EUROPE - US Cousin, people from Europe find American and create USA, and independen from British

[@demo9855]

Yes it’s called cognitive dissonance basically when ppl decide what truths they want to believe and which ones to not sadly but how American works

[@federalreservebrown2507]

if only obama & nuland had not invaded it first huh?

[@lemniscate2218]

A moment In history that will repeat itself many times over until we change for the better or destroy ourselves

[@miakmo59]

the latter is on the horizon....

[@RedHorseman66]

Someone's coming and I don't think it's the British this time.

[@dieglhix]

won't happen. we need eugenesia first.-

[@microbios8586]

This was a very interesting report. I often wonder how soldiers directly involved in the conflict reconcile their experiences with what we know now...that the war was totally unnecessary.

[@EatPsychedelics]

America did what Russia is currently doing more or less. America's "war on terror" was an act of vile terrorism. This nation's propaganda works way too well.

[@RobertGames2030]

😢😢😢

[@Bilangumus]

1 millions civilians died for nothing.

[@wilburbrickowski]

The war was completed justified.

[@hatfieldmccoy0311]

I carry it with me everyday. We did take Saddam out, he was really bad. Huge areas full of mass graves, people looking for missing family members that Saddam had kidnapped tortured and killed. Videos of Saddams henchmen gangraping wives and kids of political opponets. I did 5 deployments, lost alot of brothers, have brothers changed forever missing legs, arms, paralyzed, had another buddy commit suicide last Friday because of the demons. We carry the weight and memories that those in power of country dont because they made millions off our struggles but didnt have to live through what my Marines did. I did what I thought was needed to keep the people of this country safe.

[@MrsHall38]

My husband joined as soon after he turned 18. We were 16 when Sept 11th happened. He did ten years and served two tours over there. Its crazy when I think back to those times. When Bush first dropped bombs over there the restaurant I worked at stopped and we all watched together. It was like I was standing in a movie... I'll never forget that night.

[@sambrownski5449]

I was a little kid when the war started I still remember it to this day, and will never forget it

[@springchickena1]

memory is very real it's almost bizzare seeing an almost endless war be talked over in retrospect

[@PsyphaX09]

I was 20 when this happened...I'm 40 now and feeling old.

[@Tom-qp6oh]

Same here. Turning 40 this week! I remember how we all felt that Iraq was colluding with Al Qaeda, and we all supported the war. Now I'm ashamed of how we believed the media and Gov't.

[@PsyphaX09]

@@Tom-qp6oh The whole world got fooled by George W. Bush.

[@moeezart835]

I was 12 years old in Baghdad. Now I’m 32

[@shivanandkotian-cq1gj]

Same here😐😐

[@NordStar7]

​@@Tom-qp6oh it's time to trust the media and the government again. Ukraine's democracy is in danger😂

[@angelgallegos199]

Wonder if the ICC will issue arrest warrants for this.

[@sebastianspecter8843]

😂😂😂😂😂 US is nkt part of the ICC... and as you probably know by now why not.

[@guirrehmohamedomar7805]

​@@sebastianspecter8843 neither is Russia and yet they want to prosecute Putin

[@abCd-lx8df]

​@@sebastianspecter8843neither is Russia, but they still prosecute Putin

[@jeremiassanchez2470]

Was there. 7/2006. The experience of breathing that air and losing friend will never leave you

[@Mudmuffin]

He is rotting in hell waiting for you

[@handsomegrinch6279]

"""Freedom""" and """democracy""" at its finest

[@markquiswest6607]

I remember this like it was yesterday, back when I was in middle school!

[@ali_mo_jameel]

God bless Iraq 😢

[@Angry.General1461]

With blessings like that you don't need to ask for bad things to happen.

[@wedfr1234]

Ameen

[@MrMustang13]

Saddam killed more Muslims than the Americans ever did.

[@aram226]

Iraq Idiot

[@greenbeanz5914]

God doesn't bless animals! God only blesses Aryans!

[@discordmemerXD]

And they call them terrorists wow!

[@essakhan4360]

Every nation rises and falls , you’ll pay for what you have done , you’ll not escape

[@tirannlaws8311]

It still feels like it was yesterday sometimes

[@stephengreerii8678]

Yes it does.

[@keen9166]

It honestly wasn’t that long ago if you think about it

[@federalreservebrown2507]

I feel like 9/11 was 20 minutes ago most days

[@kikapuneniya3827]

I was 14 years old when this happened, I remember hearing my dad and uncle talking about it and my dad saying it was a mistake and we shouldn't even be there, I had no real understanding of the world until years later, seeing the devastation of the effects, relatives coming home with a different kind of battle scar, the insurgency, my dad knew it would open up a vacuum only I didn't understand what he was talking about, now I see, 20 years later

[@moeezart835]

I was 12 years old when this happened, but in Baghdad. I was living normal and a happy life and suddenly everything changed to a nightmare.

[@greenbeanz5914]

Your dad is a god damn ,dirty,,,,j,e,w,,

[@user-jn3zs8yz9z]

我爸爸跟我说伊拉克人很有钱所以他们会有很多枪，伊拉克人会在窗户前射杀入侵的美国人，他高估了伊拉克人，有钱人原来比穷人更怕死

[@72marshflower15]

Now, everyone is buying into the lies of Ukraine.. It was the US who sponsored the Nazis to begin with. Ukraine is the Reich Wing 2.0. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6nbqZ-rqdh-q6s

[@joshvillagomez00]

@@moeezart835I can’t imagine what you experienced. All of this should have never happened, just good people have hope for the better! Take care much love

[@MrMohaakon]

You lost in iraq like you lost in Vietnam

[@michaelbritt2754]

😂 no one lost s**t except lives, structure, and money. Wars can not be won when a win wasn't pursued in the first place. Warriors fought, and the ones "in charge" made money. The truth is that battles and firefights weren't lost by the American warrior. Everything was lost by those in charge. Since World War 2, there was never an attempt to win anything, just prolong it.

[@nikkimabry7585]

The US won in Iraq💀

[@careforjusticealways]

america never learns

[@user-oe4oo1on3g]

Old Bush was not punished for his crimes

[@Netwirq2]

20 Years went by so fast.

[@gitfoad8032]

Blackstate junta 'police' death-squad's been trying to lay me low for 12yrs, by hook, by crook, by phys & psyche torture, sleep dep., gang-stalking, neuro-tech, drugging, poison. What a ride. & who'd've thought Britain was the place... That's one big sub-species of type-A incommunicado, indefinite detention, torture-disappear/vanished dogshit. Time certainly flies.

[@User-jr7vf]

fast for the rest of us, not so fast for those directly involved.

[@yassinejadmaoui667]

Still can't that

[@sebastiancamero9418]

- A country: We have oil! - US: Oh, that's cool, then you need freedom!

[@jenniferm.7871]

Being in Iraq was by far the worst 18 months of my life!! I remember the smells, sounds, screams, the horrific visions. We didn't know what the fuck we were there for, and so many innocent lives were lost; military and Iraqi citizens. The government wasted billions of dollars! For what? Shit, my unit couldn't even get a proper bulletproof or flak vests. But we were committed to finding and killing the enemy. Little did we know our enemies were on our soil🇺🇸

[@roccodonato6236]

Are you service connected? You sound like you may have PTSD. I also bought the propaganda and served in the Gulf war 13 years early than you. Now that you have lived the horrors of war, it may take a lifetime time of healing. Which unfortunately, many service men and women never will be given this opportunity. *Respect for all the injured and especially the lost.*

[@EckRD]

Not an OIF Vet, but a OEF vet here. By far those two campaigns were utterly pointless. But it sure made contractors and the defense industry rich.

[@HotBoxTrucking]

is this a bot LOL - no replies and check marks all the propaganda boxes

[@federalreservebrown2507]

your enemy wears tiny hats

[@m.a.5402]

you fought a false war and now you're complicit in the deaths of 1 million people and destroying an entire country. If i had my way you would be in prison for what you did to Iraq and its people. Shame on you

[@d.diggler9936]

Pretty messed up that they can show bombs dropping on a city, yet have to sensor the word “ass”.

[@warriorsaddamx]

God bless the Iraqi martyrs . 🇮🇶

[@hectorjuaquinmontana]

XD

[@salsabila.messika]

🙄@@hectorjuaquinmontana המלחמה נגד עיראק הייתה הטעות הגדולה ביותר

[@hectorjuaquinmontana]

@@salsabila.messika No Entiendo Muñeca 🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@shahboor977]

​@@hectorjuaquinmontana because you are khawal

[@bahgatsalah]

I'm Egyptian not Iraqi but I remeber my family watching Al Jazeera almost all day in 2003 and I was watching with them, I can't forget the horrific photoage I was seeing on tv, people with their guts out and some with lost body parts screaming of pain as a 7 years old kid I didn't understand what was going on and I was hearing my family mentioning America while they were watching I didn't even know what was even America but the photoage I saw on tv made me have nightmares and I was so afraid of what I was seeing. I wish peace to my Iraqi friends and I'm sorry for being victims of the dictatorship of Sadam and the barbarism of the Americans!

[@Ihopman]

We did them a favor, what you saw on your tv was propaganda.

[@bahgatsalah]

@@Ihopman you didn't do them a favor, you brought them chaos.

[@user-yq2yy3ln4f]

​@@Ihopman انت كاذب you are liar

[@royale7620]

​@@bahgatsalah So what you are saying is that Iraqi people should continue to live under a dictatorship?

[@medbelheni9488]

@@royale7620 leaving under a dictator or under a rock that's none of your fkng business, pretending and acting like the police of the world will not go well for you, Russia and china will make that very clear to you...

[@Mohamed_El-Ashry]

I was eight years old and i will never forget this day

[@PirrePirre]

If you were 20 then you are 40 years old now! I feel so old :/

[@microbios8586]

What a waste of money and HUMAN LIFE!

[@SpaceRanger187]

if only North Korea had oil, but nope fuk those people they can stay slaves

[@snafuperman]

Necessary evils are necessary. Just look at Al Shabaab or ISIS. These were the type of terrorists back in 2000-2021 NATO has been dealing with. Russia asked to join NATO in 2003 to help out. The world was at war with Islam and rightfully so. You have no idea how much more attacks were prevented. It was a waste of money and life you’re right! A nuclear device would’ve been far better. Saved us a lot of time because regardless of outcome it had to be done.

[@JoelJ777]

Iraq was a total disaster. The intelligence agencies failed so miserably.

[@wilburbrickowski]

It was completely justified.

[@guruxara7994]

​@@wilburbrickowski It will be completely justified to arrest Bush and Cheney and let them rot in prison, preferably in Iraq.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

May Allah Bless all the Iraqi Mujahideen who defended their land against American Invaders

[@shikshitregmi4226]

may god fuck allah

[@kaithaldahe-si6ls]

Ameen

[@Coutix18]

Allah didn’t help them, your god is worth nothing

[@etheu9sby292]

Yes I hope they repented and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior and repented for their sins. Only through Christ can you be saved.

[@cukurukuk203]

​@@etheu9sby292 Muslims have accepted Jesus as a savior because he is a messenger of God, not God

[@joshuaselvig6832]

Where’s the full video?

[@mad333jjj]

I am Iraqi and I have a message to the world (Save us from Iranian colonialism)

[@FF-le3ps]

May Allah free the Muslims of Iraq from rawafid rule

[@BigBootyBass96]

Soldier:“Let’s get it done and over with” 20 years later:

[@cikicar]

war criminals

[@gregorio3139]

@@cikicar The irony...we're never the war criminals because we control the Intl War Crimes Tribunals/

[@akhsdenlew1861]

Average russia soldier at the start of the war : let's take kiev in 3 days and get over with it. Average russia soldier now : we got a playground next to bakhmut 🤡🤡🤡

[@daddyrabbit835]

This looks pretty close to our run into Iraq in 91, during Desert Storm.

[@springchickena1]

being a child in 2003 and growing up with immigrant familys in my apart buildings I really felt like they were some of the nicest people on this earth and very civilized compared to others. so much respect for you all.

[@brandondobschutz5146]

So sorry for the 1 million plus Iraqis who died for lies. Ashamed to be an American over this one.

[@AliAli-dp8he]

انا من العراق نحن لا نكره الشعب الأمريكي نحن نكره سياسيين أمريكا لا تخجل لا ذنب لك فيما حدث ولا تدعم سياسيين بلادك ابدااا

[@kampalaGhosts]

2:24 "they didnt start hating us until we stayed"

[@k-studio8112]

Looks like the same thing happened prior to the Philippine-American War

[@Mark3nd]

Then why you Philippines like America after what we did?

[@k-studio8112]

@@Mark3nd that's a sad truth. Maybe because it was overshadowed by the fact that you've saved our country during WW2.

[@HentsSauce]

@@Mark3nd Because we are not idiots who hold on to grudges over conflicts that our great grandparents witnessed. America took control of the Philippines after Spanish rule? Ok.. so what? You killed our people 100+ years ago? Who cares? Do I know those people? If the alternative was like a communist Philippines or something worse, I'd rather pick the present outcome. Same goes with the Spanish and Japs.

[@CorekBleedingHollow]

"They didn't start hating us until we stayed."

[@mikedegnan5252]

20 years later I still see it like it was yesterday. I swear I can still smell it and hear it.

[@Hing.Dickson]

Nobody condemn US about war crime wtf....😡😡😡😡

[@Roseanne90405]

Вы правы что они скрывают преступления оккупации в Ираке

[@pratiswar5977]

Why would they let that happen? That will expose them. 😂

[@israeliairstrikeonyourhous2068]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@israeliairstrikeonyourhous2068]

Nobody liked saddam when he was in power. Quit yapping that liberal nonsense.

[@israeliairstrikeonyourhous2068]

@@Roseanne90405 what about the crimes of Russia’s Syrian Occupation? Georgia’s? How about Afghanistan’s? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mikesmith-wk7vy]

i had a coworker that was in the mechanized infantry units and the first "thunder run" , he hated riding in the Bradley he said if it got hit the fuel cells would go off and the occupants would be burned to death

[@tut1]

do you know they were killing civilians there? watch there interviews on YT please they were make sex with any girl they found in any place even into her family!!! there are a 4soldiers make a sex with 14 years girl and killed her parents while they making that f** sex and she hearing the bullets sound! ! you can find that story told by one of those soldiers BTW

[@froumajesty5697]

Lol don’t victimise the invaders. Remember how your buddies was killing civs in Baghdad and “highway of death”. America is a lier just don’t forget how you tried to hide “SongMey massacre” in Vietnam. About 170 children including 53 infants were killed. And for that America punished only one ☝️ soldier out of 26. HOME ARREST FOR 3 YEARS 😊

[@froumajesty5697]

I didn’t even talk about Japan fire storm bombing by 300 B-29

[@jasic40]

War crime.

[@drox69]

I was there with 4th Infantry Division. Young 23 year old soldier😱 lost a couple friends. 😢

[@thomasantrobus7655]

Time goes by

[@Seize07]

You have no shame? Do you? You mf destroyed Iraq....

[@cardinaltraveltourism4682]

Those who lead men to kill their fellow humans are monsters 👺😢 War is senseless 😢

[@tut1]

do you know they were killing civilians there? watch there interviews on YT please they were make sex with any girl they found in any place even into her family!!! there are a 4soldiers make a sex with 14 years girl and killed her parents while they making that f** sex and she hearing the bullets sound! ! you can find that story told by one of those soldiers BTW

[@pahvyelkeereal]

I feel sorry for what happened to the Iraqis

[@user-zl4ko3xh2p]

هههه لا يخوي ماكو داعي للأسف ، حرب صارت شي طبيعي بالنسبة لنا. إذا ماكو حرب انحس بالكآبة😅

[@Up2date7.]

Hahaha. Stupid person, bet you think 1 million died 🤣 muslims love to exaggerate. Can’t even name them

[@matthius1692]

I feel sorry for the US troops that had to go to that $hit stain of a country.

[@babynutria8438]

@@matthius1692 you the stupidests person i have seen on this website💀

[@Falastheen002]

The real terrorists were the Americans who invaded that country

[@kucc3651]

The desperation really started after 2003 for those non-Iraqi people who are wondering how’s life been in Iraq. Not just America lost many soldiers, but also Iraq lost its people and the characteristics that a country should have. Ask almost every single Iraqi nowadays, and they all regret the fact that once they wished Saddam Hussein would fall.

[@mysteriousmat]

Can you imagine how this would been reported on twitter know..

[@Abuunaseeha]

Us failed In Iraq and Afghanistan

[@DngrDan]

Imagine if we just shwacked Saddam and left. The Iraqis would love us today. And probably no ISIS.

[@sara_491]

When, if you had done this, my little brother would now be by my side and I would be playing with him, but he died at the hands of the Americans.

[@Truthteller100]

I remember the airport like it was yesterday.

[@Unknown-Lux]

Just imagine if humans upon death ejected some form of flash drive and we could witness video footage of everything his eyes saw. It would be horrifying witnessing some flash drives of soldiers.

[@quinnard9750]

That would be nice but also horrific

[@Psookpy]

That’s pretty much a reality for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[@bsherman8236]

In some near future maybe, every one will be under surveillance for the sake of security

[@salsabila.messika]

יש אתר שמציג סרטונים בלתי נתפסים של פשעים שצולמו במלחמות, בחיים רגילים ובכנופיות😏

[@91932jk]

and presidents

[@didyouknowamazingfacts2790]

No one will be head accountable for this.

[@DestinyAwaits19]

There's nothing to be held accountable for. Saddam was a tyrannical dictator and his sons were even worse.

[@mohammedalrubaye9104]

We will never forget

[@tsg9874]

I’m Kurdish from northern Iraq, and the Iraq invasion should have never taken place.

[@Sam_Falcon42]

Damn and the news just discovered this? There's like plenty of combat footage like this.

[@40ez10]

Post link then

[@R0B690]

Right? There probably is all over the internet if you know where to look.

[@nyquist_control]

​@@40ez10 are you that inept you can't search yourself?

[@yalbad5160]

Probably because it's from troops from their area of the country.

[@ernestjohnson1807]

I have almost 3years of combat footage from my tank. It's on a hard drive I can't access I just need to take it to a shop and get the data off it. The war was terrible I will never be the same. All I think about now are all the mothers crying for thier lost sons.

[@Glory_2_Russia]

God bless the Iraqis who fought American Invaders.

[@robertmcfarlane7548]

If you mess with America, Fuck around and find out! Hell ya.

[@PapiChulo-yb6iu]

It wasn't America, it was USA a country with no name, no official language, and no culture.

[@robertmcfarlane7548]

@@PapiChulo-yb6iu Yea ok Mr papi

[@PapiChulo-yb6iu]

@@robertmcfarlane7548 😂😂😂😂

[@robertmcfarlane7548]

Papi bro come in

[@CCM1199]

Man, I remembered being put on stop movement orders prior to the war starting as I reenlisted to move over to the 3rd Infantry division. I was with the 4th Infantry division and we were originally supposed to push from the north via Incirlik air base in Turkey but we were denied so we had to reroute our equipment to Kuwait and then gear up and move to support 3rd ID as they were getting close to Baghdad. we were combat loaded onto a HETT and was driven until we were 10 miles outside of Baghdad. We were dropped there and then moved into Baghdad. Even after 3rd ID cleared the way in, we got into some engagements of our own. fast forward to August 2003, I was given the all clear to move to 3rd ID and Joined them as they were taking their well deserved leave. I went back to Iraq three additional times (2005, 2007 for 15 months in the Al-Anbar Province with brigade at Ramadi and 2009 to shut down the bases) four total deployments and three of the four was with 3rd ID (two with first brigade and one with third brigade). I still have nightmares about my deployment days of 2005 where 90% of the negative things of the deployment happened. I was 26 years old and at that point I had six years in service. RIP SGM Gallagher.....

[@afsuk7news]

These warmongers are still smiling

[@Yousef997]

We will not forget this moment and will take revenge

[@zinomtx3171]

Thay called them heroes

[@zinomtx3171]

Thay destroy everything shame on them

[@HentsSauce]

Blame Osama for attacking America then lmao because of that 9/11 attack USA got hungry for justice and was desperate to attack terrorists.

[@velociraptorblue866]

You have to remember that yes, this war was wrong doing but if you want to take revenge and commit terrorist attacks on the U.S/ Isreal and other surrounding countries then your no good than what the U.S's did in the early 2000's

[@tassosplatis2143]

Vengeance best comes from God. Look at America today. Fat, ugly, drugs, crimes, illegal immigration, political corruption problems, bad economy, LGBT and gay agenda, families broken, I could go on. That is more than what any person who hates America can do.

[@kikicat-lc5fb]

This is a lesson for those involved in a war that does not concern him

[@joshuapartridge5092]

imagine showing this to someone in 2002

[@ramtron1775]

Man, they had us in the Kuwaiti desert for months waiting to invade, so when the order was given, we were relieved and thought, the faster it begins,the faster it ends. I was wrong. I had to go back another time a couple months after coming home. And It was way worse when I went back.

[@tut1]

do you know they were killing civilians there? watch there interviews on YT please they were make sex with any girl they found in any place even into her family!!! there are a 4soldiers make a sex with 14 years girl and killed her parents while they making that f** sex and she hearing the bullets sound! ! you can find that story told by one of those soldiers BTW

[@User-jr7vf]

There's one thing I don't understand. It is generally taught that the Iraqi army was quickly destroyed by the US and its allies. However I see in the comments section several former soldiers talking about colleagues who died, or lost limbs, or were otherwise seriously wounded in the course of several (re)-deployments. Something doesn't add up. Who was putting up the resistence?

[@theamazingempiricist]

There was a power vacuum after the Iraqi army was decimated by the US. Local warlords and militia took power on the basis of stabilizing their region or area. Their allegiances were based on their branch of Islam (Sunni vs. Shia) or tribal affiliation. The fighting from then on was a lot more like a drawn out guerilla war with different factions terrorizing each other or the US forces still in Iraq. The US eventually withdrew unceremoniously and now Iran flexes an enormous amount of influence in Iraq through the militias that succeeded and also won elections.

[@hansblitz7770]

Halliburton got richer, and Israel got rid of one of their enemies. That was the point. Rumsfeld would agree.

[@7thMorphSr.]

Anti-Capitalist✊

[@taham.mustafa2976]

How’s halliburton ?

[@Noor_al_Furqan]

Don't forget Blackwater too. It's crazy how they flipped morality on its head and had us thinking that invading a country is fine, but the residents of that country fighting back is bad.

[@languso13]

And no one has been charged for war crimes in the US!

[@ICTBKco]

Can't believe how casual you guys talk of how much your country ruined another over a lie to the world.

[@adamtam5293]

What goes around comes around.. remember that..

[@ozzyphil74]

This is all you guys remember about your evil invasion that led to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths... Wow... Rah rah American exceptionalism at its finest

[@a.t6066]

Good

[@etheu9sby292]

Do you support America supporting Ukraine and by default contributing to the death of thousands. Shouldn't we be trying to broker a peace deal instead we slowly march toward American intervention in a war that is meaningless to us.

[@oreosplease4076]

i mean Americans are facing hyperinflation and shootings every other day, and drag queens molesing their children, they are practically cannibalizing themselves

[@Noor_al_Furqan]

​@@etheu9sby292 the support for Ukraine is another example of America vying for control of the whole planet. Why else would we give a fuck about Ukraine besides to have a chokehold around Russia's neck?

[@user-pb7gs5sn5c]

Ohhh damn guys the new 2003 Iraq vid just dropped. Been waiting a minute on this!

[@noke258]

I remember watching the air strikes live footage on bbc news in Baghdad watching the cruse missiles strikes, as a 11 year old kid I thought it was cool. But when you are 30 you realise how ridiculous, brazen and wrong it all was watching a city get bombed live on tv while we get the popcorn out.

[@tut1]

do you know they were killing civilians there? watch there interviews on YT please they were make sex with any girl they found in any place even into her family!!! there are a 4soldiers make a sex with 14 years girl and killed her parents while they making that f** sex and she hearing the bullets sound! ! you can find that story told by one of those soldiers BTW

[@malak8541]

At a time when children, women, and the elderly were dying because of the American missiles, at a time of night, darkness, fear, and crying You enjoy watching that as kids and eating popcorn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel sorry, I thought the American people were innocent in this war

[@sticks_studiosHQ]

Love Iraq I hated that this war even became a reality 🇺🇸❤️🇮🇶

[@Frima.Mafia.]

NO!

[@sticks_studiosHQ]

@@Frima.Mafia. piss off

[@user-lb5ek5hg7f]

بيننا وبينكم بحر من دم فأنتم كان هدفكم سرقة النفط وتدمير العراق

[@salsabila.messika]

@@Frima.Mafia. מלחמה היא דבר מגעיל, במיוחד כשהקורבנות הם ילדים😞

[@capitanstyx9998]

@@salsabila.messika я из России, мы очень рады уничтожать детей в наших войнах

[@jimiperlas3215]

American Hypocrisy be like: "Rules for thee, but not for me."

[@lez_ghozt]

amazing we ended up losing this war

[@2K6Ohio]

@@groggerpingas??? "No major military defeats" they literally withdrew from both countries because they couldnt stop the insurgents/Taliban. Afghanistan remains under Taliban control and Iraq is still not fully fixed.

[@Hobe.m]

@@groggerpingas It is shameful that your mentality is still alive and we are in the year 2023. Did you say a purification process? Purge what? Rape of minors, displacement of families, torture of innocent people in Abu Ghraib prison, and burning of families. Is this purification? How barbaric you are, shame on you

[@Hobe.m]

@@groggerpingas America has lost all of its soldiers in Iraq, whether dead, mentally ill, or disabled. Despite the alliance of more than 30 countries against Iraq and the strongest armies, they will not be able to control the city of Fallujah, Sadr City, the Wadi al-Salam cemetery in Najaf, Dhi Qar, Sniper Juba, and many of all these areas. The places were a nightmare for the Americans. They would not approach them because they knew very well that when they entered them, they would be torn apart. I feel like there is something wrong when I try to convince an American person that the invasion of Iraq is a grave mistake and a disgrace to America, and that the Iraqis are victims and the American soldiers were brainwashed. Even the American government admitted that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. big

[@jordanonofer3886]

Dude said it best. They didn't hate us until we stayed. I experienced that myself. Spot on

[@tema20s]

No buddy they and i hated you [ and still hate you all the way from Turkey ] from the first moment we set eyes on you. iwas 5 years at the time and i didnt know who you were other than devilish looking strangers breaking into people's home stealing valuables when no male family members were around . [ AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE MIILIONS OF INNOCENT LIVES YOU TOOK ] and please dont think that only iraqi people hate you , alll muslims hate the very thought of you. my countrymen hate you , and if you ever come to turkey and happen to relate this heroic deed of yours , they will beat the hell out of you . i hope our dear president will live and maintain his presidency long enough to teach BLOODY US a lesson .

[@yaqob3275]

The people liked you was the shite group, without them the war would have been more difficult. Fast forward to Russia now.... suddenly USA doesn't like wars😊😅😮😢😂

[@jebbroham1776]

Removing Saddam was the biggest mistake we could have possibly made. Prior to that, the Middle East was relatively stable, as bad as it sounds, because Saddam kept the region in check. Once we removed the dictator everything came apart.

[@Xover112]

And guess what US wants to do now - remove Putin and Lukashenko, what can possibly go wrong. hahaha I guess fools never learn on their mistakes, they only repeat them to show that they are fools.

[@royale7620]

Middle East was stable when they all had a monarch, respectable Western educated and influential men not these garbage brutalist dictators. Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Yemen Oman, Jordan all were progressive and doing very good till the late 70s.

[@seymourfinnigan]

Removing saddam wasn't a mistake. He might've kept Iraq in check but he invaded Iran & Kuwait but not only that, he killed millions of people including his own. During his presidency living in Iraq, despite being in good shape, was hell.

[@User-jr7vf]

@@seymourfinnigan but Iraq invadind Iran was good for US interests, no? I don't understand why you Americans would bother Saddam was 'dealing' with Iran.

[@Krkak4985]

@@seymourfinnigan Even so, USA has nothing to do with Iraq. It was their war. And you terrorists had no place in that. And who are you to judge whether it was hell? Are you Iraqi, if not, better take your hands off keyboard.

[@gonzalomanriquezjr864]

Man I was a 20 year old kid when the war kicked off. I was in basic training when bush declared war. I graduated and was on a plane heading to Iraq 3 weeks later. I learned to grow up fast.

[@curiousguy6472]

Yeah I was a soldier myself back then, me and my buds used to talk about US's invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. We imagined various scenarios how to defend our nation if US did this to us then. TBH, we had sympathy for Saddam Hussein and unlike Taliban or Al Qaeda we never found any useful reason to why US would invade Iraq other than for it's oil. 20 years later I think we were correct in our conclusion.

[@promithefs]

Yes all the world was feeling the same thing but who is gona tell something to the most powerfull country in the world ?

[@benjaminjohnsonboston]

@@promithefs now they are being expose in Ukraine. Countries don’t want to trade with their dollar 💵 anymore

[@Michael12342]

I hope that President Joe Biden will put this person, Muqtada al-Sadr, on the terrorist and black list number one

[@jesusbernal9025]

Oil and Iraqi arqueológicas treasury. Just ask hobby lobby about it

[@dosankybobolioo4257]

The whole world know US invaded iraq because want to plunder iraq oil..saddam didnt have nuclear