“The Iraq war did not need to happen. It should not have happened.” Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, a former US soldier who took part reflects on its legacy, as the effects of war and occupation are still felt throughout the region.
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5000 + Americans lost in Iraq ????
500
@india🇮🇳 5,000 official US soldiers plus the unofficial soldiers who worked as private contractors for blackwater and other mercenary companies like the russian wagner group.
@india🇮🇳 bruh its 5000
It’s an exaggerated number.
Over 4600 soldiers died. The rest might have been private military contractors.
most Americans felt this way
But did nothing…
ICC
What do you suggest we must do to Mr. Bush then?
It’s a democracy so they should arrest
After what?? After killing of innocents in Iraq? It was fun BIG Man , but the souls you’ve killed will haunt you all your filthy life and you will remain a junky and end up in the streets like the Vietnamese Vets … If you really didn’t like killing innocent civilians you would have done another job… i don’t fall for your dirty worthless lies
He has been there three times. So the first two times he didn’t see people die? Why did he decide to go back into battle two more times?
Was it in his contract? Did he have to?
@Kvak23 You are lying… if you had actually served under anything you would know what I meant by ‘disability’… all soldiers know how to avoid orders…how to claim they have headaches or anxiety…. You first claim that NATO wanted you to kill civilians in Kosovo? This is clearly a propaganda line…. Your second claim that you just refused in the moment… instead of claiming a medical disability… shows you don’t understand soldier life… and the claim NATO shoots its own soldiers for refusing commands is also a propaganda line… Lastly, what is this ‘during war time’ you constantly repeat? NATO and the US do not treat their soldiers the way Russia does… shooting them in the back when they refuse orders… you are so clearly a Russian propaganda troll….
@Kvak23 “the question here was why he went for third time. Reason was because army owns you untill your service is up when you are honourably discharged for completing your tour of duty. If you refuse to obey orders during war time you facing court marshal” What is this war time? All deployed soldiers are held to the same standard… “The maximum punishment for a violation or failure to obey lawful general order or regulation is dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for two years.” You made the ‘war time’ distinction up…. To the topic of why he deployed a third time… the US military tends to use a 3-1 ratio of deployed time to down time… meaning he either pushed for faster deployments or he was enlisted over a decade…. well past any contractual obligations… meaning the original post is correct…
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@Kvak23 a sniper with NATO 5.56? So you it was a friendly fire?
Once you sign, you are THE PROPERTY of the US military my friend.
What’s Sickening You Killed 1 000 000 People and Now You Believe The Truth
Where is ICC?) Why the are not suspecting this crime?
Useless western tricks are over, the world has changed.
Close the US suported ICC!
All this condemnation is useless now since the war is over and the leaders are unlikely to get punish
In Urdu we say
Todna aasan jodna namumkin
Meaning you can break but you can’t unite
There is no being on earth,who can forgive this heinous crime ,so better accept ISLAM and hope for salvation
The most pointless thing to do.
@Orbite Flow y, if someone has brain it’s the most wise THING To do especially seeing everywhere there is destruction,i think by 2030 half of the planet earth will see earthquakes
😂😂😂☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
@Shamshuda Shamshuda If someone has brain they would see that many people who are without one has said the same thing like you and we are still here. When you got nothing going on in your life this is the type of dillusion you resort to.
@Orbite Flow thanks for your dillusion upon me,
That’s sure to happen which you keep on denying,
If there would have no questioning by God on day of judgement,ther would not have been a thing called death ☝️ shun idols worship ALLAAH the true God above everything…
@Shamshuda Shamshuda I am not the one who is dogmatic about some conspiracy of the world. I have nothing to deny when many like you have nothing to prove. Every generation has a braindead people like you who believes in nonesense and yet people keep on living just fine. Here is a piece of advice, lock yourself in a room and never go out.
One thing I can’t understand at all is how former slaves join their slave masters to commit same exact atrocities they themselves have endured in the hands of their slave masters! Why? Why would a black american join white supremacy global aggression and destruction? Even in million years I won’t understand.
Every action is going to be accountable infront of God in the day of judgement.
Amen 🙏
Saddam was a brutal dictator who deserved to die but war itself was wholly unjustified and I think even Bush and Blair know it in there heart even though they will not admit it.
the USA will be finished soon by Russian nukes but Iraq will still exist for a long time.
Allah ﷻ says in the Glorious Quran 14•42:
And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them (their account) for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror]!
Tony Blair needs to be tried and locked up for destroying Iraq and for demographically changing the UK.
Black America are helping white America terrorist people to kill out the people in the world and black is a part of it 🪦⚰👀👀👀👀🇯🇲🇨🇺🇯🇴🇧🇩🇪🇹🇰🇵🇺🇬🇹🇷🇻🇺🇷🇺🇨🇳🇧🇷🇻🇪🇻🇳🇸🇳🇦🇪🌎🇱🇮🇮🇷🇰🇪🇦🇫
This man speaks the truth, yet some idiots still champion this war.
These people should be arrested..
the war of Iraq still haunting America even rest of the days must been haunt America.this guy repenting now after 20 years may be many other American might feel so why they don’t realize before committing crimes what is the use ol now.
Search YouTube . ‘ They Don’t Hate Us For Our Freedom . ‘
Put Bush, Blair, Obama and Trump in the centre of these wars and they will be crying like they have lost their dummies.
Understand who the neoconservatives are. They are not American 🕊️❤️🙏☘️
So what? The vast majority of Americans aren’t stupid. All of Europe, and the West is at stake here. No more having it so easy if Russia gets away with this. Wow.
These soldiers are complicit in committing murder of innocent people!
If they did that.
Hello ICC?? ARE YOU LISTENING?
Where is the war crime court? Selective justice to say the least.
Straight up facts
Black man fighting for a white man’s army what a moron 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The truth is the truth …is the truth, thank you for this man and his voice 🙏
Stop killing each other for the pharaoh bloodlined!
It’s really heartening to see so many Americans speak up against the war where many are like robots who fail to raise their voice against an unjust system in many parts of the world.
They speak NoW,coz, ALLAAH has forced them to…
Laailaaha illa Allah Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ❤️, rasool ALLAH ☝️…
‘ YouTube Search . ‘ ‘They Don’t Hate Us For Our Freedom . ‘
You went to Iraq and Afghanistan killed people maybe women and children for racist American some day karma is going to get you
In Iraq 😂
Thanks for speaking up against the war mongers.
It took him 20 years to speak out 😏
Bring more of those voices to pressurize peace!
You did your job and now speak the truth, we don’t try to do the right thing, we are only looking out for our best interests and the world has caught on to our hypocrisy.
🌿🌿 So glad to see that at long last, Allah is blessing them with the wisdom to slowly realise their mistakes. 👍🤲💯
It was all for the Zionists.
media waking up and dare to report stuff?
Qatar’s media outlet Aljazeera which not even raise voice for democracy in Qatar (an absolute monarchy ruled by the Al Thani royal family) criticize authoritarian regimes elsewhere its hypocricy at its finest
04 to 08 July. Fully regret serving and honestly embarrassed to be an American.i plan on immigrating to Mexico in a few years. They dont bomb and invade other countries and they have comprehensive government healthcare funded by taxation.
Indian hindutvas openly admit they loved it
your name justifies your hate! But I am sure even you don’t know why?
@Mohith Mohan K it’s you people who lynch people on the basis of name
@Mohith Mohan K everyone know what hateful things you hindus write on comment sections, and are shameless enough not to admit about it
They will get theirs one day😊
Mulla spotted opinion rejected😊
If Iraq really had WMDs, the US would’ve never invaded it. The only thing protecting countries like North Korea, Pakistan, China and Russia from invasion are their nuclear weapons. And despite having nukes, these countries are still being threatened day and night by the United States. The US threatened Russia’s existence by trying to get Ukraine into nuclear-NATO despite the fact that Russia is a nuclear-state. And now the US is threatening China by causing Taiwan problem despite knowing full-well China is a nuclear-state as well. The West is a racist, colonialist and imperialist entity and will stoop to any level to kill other people, steal their resources and occupy their lands.
Did you find the WMD???
Is it weapon of mass destruction,
I think this was fake story made up by then developed countries u.k, USA with help of international camera
They did find WMDs, and it was themselves. The very people who accuse other countries for “human rights violations” did this to Iraq and many other countries.
“other countries” accused of human rights violations are doing the same and they deserve the condemnation!
*international terrorist american*
This guy had 2 i raq tour 1 afghanistan tour
None of them was war it was fighting insurgency in the name of tourism
Lets see if this rambo can survive more than 4 hour in real war which is going on in ukraine
*terrorism* but yeah i understand what u mean
Saying a “real war” as if lives aren’t being consumed all the same. What a weirdo you are.
I love the message to his colleague veterans………… War is ugly!!
Bless your soul Mr James
100% AGREED.
As a Vietnamese, I can’t believe that the US military could just get away with “My Lai massacre”, among other things. In my religion, people who die because of injustice are unable to reincarnate, and have another life…
@Mili Bibi if there is One God then only one religion can be the truth and the person who believes that his religion is the truth all other religions are False to him.
vietnam fought bravely and kicked some ugly imperialistic empires out france and usa my deepy condolonce to the brave people of vietnam
As a child of a Vietnam veteran, I’ll tell you my father NEVER talked about anything over there, (except being a court reporter in Hawaii,) but he came back a broken man, never cut his hair again, and drank himself to death over the injustice that he knew he was a part of. I’m sorry… I do not condone any war ever. At least he taught me that.
Just like how north Vietnam got alway with the hue massacre?
US Lose in vietnam.
honest man
Missed out the part where Iraq used chemical weapons against civilians.
When Iraq told the world it was building nuclear weapons and they was intending to use them!
The international community became very concerned.
This is why an UNTIED NATION approved the invasion of Iraq.
Instead of blaming the west (despite it being an INTERNATIONAL invasion).
Maybe you should blame Iraq for lying and threatening to nuclear other countries 😂😂😂😂
Haha still Deluded asf lol. What business is it off yours? Lol you don’t see anyone invade the yanks because you have the highest incarnation population or a rampant opioid crisis. Actually I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re government flooded you’re street’s considering Afghanistan was 90 percent of the world’s heroin.
U N never approved the invasion it was the Western white countries for them only whites are human as it is shown by teir reactiont to Ukraine.
Lol europigs n AmeriSwines r now becoming what they were before evolution 🐖. Lol its already said in previously that Iraq war is not supported by UN lol 😆 🤣 😂
The United Nations DID NOT approve the invasion buddy.
Before the invasion, there we over 700 checks by the International Community, no WMD were found, but the US still invaded.
American govt is a corporate thug and Bush and Blair are the biggest terrorists
America go war for Israel, Israel are clever, they used gentile to fight in other countries for them while Israel only focus on Palestine
US has another war coming based on lies. US foreign policy acknowledge taiwan belong to china since 1970s, agreed and signed between president jimmy carter and president deng xiaoping, but US continue meddling and arming taiwan. Politicians and media are hiding this one china policy from american people. Taiwan is China’s internal affairs which debunk the narrative of china agression. US has military bases in taiwan, philippines, south korea and japan. Basically US trying to contain and provoke china. US action caused china reaction. The main stream media and politicians twisted china reactions as agression.
US destroyed PALESTINE, IRAQ, LIBYA, YEMEN, SYRIA, where millions of people died, homeless, refugees and starving to death. Yet, people didn’t realized that.
jestice for all.
respect to this soldier that speaks out this is brave
it is hard to respect someone admitting killing innocent life. he is still a murderer
@Yosef Khalifa he’s not the enemy though, the US Gov if they want tomorrow can make any citizen go overseas and shoot at people and if they don’t they go to prison, who’s the enemy?
Us created so many conflicts in the world in the name of democratic values….American people got taken hostages by war machine,is up to them to freed from this monster
That why they need people to do dirty jobs and a human life is worth less during war.
An those million Iraqis were dumped into burning pits, people should read about the school soccer field the us converted into one, very similar to WW2 with the Dews. Oh an don’t forget to google depleted uranium ammunition an the effects on new borns 🤢🤢
strong words
This is the same this what America doing right now in Ukraine. Fake news spreading all through their channels. CNN, Google, and so on….
Plan endless chaos control kill off millions divide SH already worked for the usa uk
Clones lack courage to walk to the WH or ask why did usa uk military leave 10 billion in new weapons to the Taliban and a billion in swiss bank accounts or better why did the uk usa military ss mi6 cia make fund train new groups the Taliban and Isis
“Yes we are criminals, so… how’s the weather ?”
He forgot the part that the majority of their recruits are psycopaths, hence they love anything war or murder related.
A Lotta talk about war criminals lately, no need to look any further than our own shores.
this guy is confessing to crimes against humanity
Where is the ICC arrest warrant for Bush and Blair?
Americans: Let’s Give more weapons to Ukraine.
>>>>>>20 years latter>>>>>>
American: We should not have poured fuel in the fire.
20 years later it’s going to be Russians that will say ” we shouldn’t have killed our slavic neighbors.”
In the war in Iraq, the loss of innocent lives, no more meaning!
5 million Iraqis killed ,millions left destitute,orphan , widowed, hundreds of thousands incarcerated in jails raped humiliated beyond imagination – all due to illegal usa invasion of Iraq endorsed by champions of democracy human rights uk ,europe etc and later outsourced same evil occupation to sectarian Shia regime which led to rise of psychotic Al Qaeda isis etc to justify more human rights violations ! In words of UNESCO NEVER in history of war cities like fallujah ,ramadi tikrit destroyed like this by usa Iraqi shia regime in disguise of fighting terrorism created due to illegal invasion of Iraq!
For some reason this guy looks dead inside to me
George W. Bush Tony Blair and apartheid Israel are the main culprits & Complicite. They should be brought to Hague International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Evil of America and her western allies will one day come to hunt them
He’s still a terrorist America is the great evil in the world today
Jail those government officials of US and NATO who commited war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wow! It takes him 3 deployment to see the light???
Wars needs to stop 😟😟😟😟
You should go tell Putin that. I am sure he will be willing to listen to you.
The Y’ahoud Henry Kissinger was quoted as saying “Military men are Dumb Animals, Used as Pawns for Foreign Policy”
American media trying so hard to justify Iraq war was good for Iraqi people, and US saved them for Isis by killing million Iraqi civilians in process. Question should be raised did Isis exist before US invaded Iraq?
United States dictators should face justice
Too late.
Give life ✝️
Sacrifices…🩸
People seem to think that the vast majority of soldiers sent to Iraq completely agreed with being sent there. That’s not true at all. We the soldiers knew that we should never have been sent there. I did 3 deployments to Iraq and I knew first hand that they didn’t want us there. They grew quickly to hate us. It’s not hard to see why. Their country and lives were destroyed by that war. We are seeing the same thing play out with Ukraine right now. Iraq was 100% the fault of politicians and the people who voted for them. The soldiers like me were just living our daily lives and just wanted to serve and defend our country. We don’t get a say in where we are sent. But politicians do. And they profitted greatly from military contracts and seeing the war continue. Iraq was just Vietnam 2.0.
I am sure if USA start another illegal war millions of Americans will join the army
America attacked Iraq using BS weapons of mass destruction lies as the excuse.
Today, 20 years later, lies are an integral part of the US government system.
Despite everyones criticism at least this man is one of the few who regrets his wrongs and has the courage to come forward
Oil, to πape, gold, to test their weapons, to install pro West Puppets are the main reasons murikka loves war. I am sure they left wasian kids as a result of π@pe in Vietnam & many others countries they invaded in the name of freedom & democracy.
Call for the banning of American athletes in all international sporting events to show solidarity for Iraq
How about Russian athletes for Russia invading Ukraine ?
@Matt Eckhardt that is already done isn’t it? Double standard hypocrites?
One man once said that the US would invade and massacre people then years later make movies and documentaries about how sad they feel.. This is no different..
CENTRAL BANKERS, BUSH, CLINTON’S, OBAMA, MATTIS, WESTLEY CLARK, FLYNN, MILEY, UKRAINIAN VINDMAN, KAMALA HARRIS, ADAM SCHIFF, NEWSOM, COMO, ERIC HOLDER, BILL NYE, HOLLYWOOD DRUG ADDICTS, EXECUTE THEM ALL FOR TREASON AND FALSELY IMPRISONING ANDREW TATE, JULIAN ASSANGE, EDWARD SNOWDEN, NSA DIRECTOR BILL BINNEY, BUNDY RANCHERS, KIMDOTCOM, JAN 6 ARE IN PRISON BECAUSE MILITARY GENERALS FAILED TO FIGHT FOR AMERICA, SHUTDOWN NATO’S FAULT
USA is the worst thing that has ever happened to this world😔😔😔
I am very sorry for those who are iraqi, that war destroyed and ruined all chance of success, I’m sorry. As a American, I do hate being born here..
If you hate the fact being born here then perhaps you should go move to China or Russia. I am sure they will welcome you there.
I strongly condemned US invasion of Iraq and America who kill million of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Deep condolences for Iraqi and afgani people. 😢
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British Iraq war vet here and I completely agree with this man. We have the mark of Kane upon us because of this.
I will never stop being ashamed and sorry for this war and the first chance at putting Blair in prison for it I will be supporting it.
I am so sorry.
As an Iraqi born man just want to say thanks to people like you that see what the war really was. I lost 2 uncles and several cousins because of it, I’m lucky to have emigrated to another country but the invasion/war made me so angry and upset at the world. I’ve began to accept what happened, happened. It’s only because of people being aware of how wrong the war was.
@420allday I am truly sorry.
You figt for fake information. How many your.friend killed there?
They killed for fake information