How has Iraq changed since the US-led invasion 20 years ago? | DW News
It's been 20 years since American and coalition forces invaded Iraq on a mission to topple Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and find weapons of mass destruction.
Within three weeks, Saddam's regime had fallen, but no stockpiles of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons were ever found.
By the time US troops left in 2011, the insurgency that followed the invasion had claimed the lives of more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians, while US losses reached nearly 4,500.
Now a semblance of normalcy has returned, but Iraq still battles a range of challenges, from political instability to poverty and rampant corruption. Our next report takes a look at today's Iraq.
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Journalist : Why did you invade Iraq? George W Bush : Because they had weapons of mass destruction Journalist : Why didn’t you invade North Korea instead? George W Bush : Because they had weapons of mass destruction
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Lol sad but true
You can't invade em all at the same time, dummy. Especially if the first one is taking a long time to stabilize.
@@JK-br1muyou calling him a dummy when your whole point crumbles with the fact that they didn't have WMDs to begin with. Make it make sense
@@davidnoelfranks1124Or support from other powerful countries such as China and Russia.
What is astonishing is that the criminals who lied their way to have this war are still walking and living their lives as if nothing ever happened and planning their next adventure.
It's so sad when folks blindly believe government lies.
It's sad when folks blindly believe whatever they want to believe. Chemical weapons were found in Iraq in 2003. DW News is wrong here, which is rare and unusual, as DW is usually highly factual. You can look this up yourself and verify.
and religion.. just brain washed from birth...
Like Russia attacked Ukraine unprovoked
@@avus-kw2f213 Like WMD.
We still do with the whole Ukraine thing
Now where is international criminal court??
The international criminal court condemned Saddam. And for good reason too.
@@Thor.Jorgensen There's a good reason to condemn Bush too.
@@Thor.Jorgensen he was a bad guy but it’s also a fact that US/UK violated international law. You can’t have your cake and eat it
@@xD3MONxIxSOULx Oh yeah. The war was started for the right reasons but performed the wrong way. What happened after the war was unwarranted. But Saddam most certainly needed to be ousted after his numerous attempts to invade neighboring countries and for the genocides he committed against the Kurds in Northern Iraq. There was no plan for bringing democracy back to Iraq, which Iraq indeed once had, prior to the Cold War.
@@Thor.Jorgensen prior to cold war iraq was a monarchy.......
Rest in peace to all the innocent lives lost in war.
Hi, I'm Lucien Domingo's. Please can i talk to you in private
Politicians, and those in positions of influence and power, need to be accountable.
Hi, I'm Lucien Domingo's. Please can i talk to you in private
US must be held accountable for this war crime
What war crime? Did we steal children too??
@@rogerwilco5918 War crimes are of many types. US airforce murdered 1500 people in al amiriyah air raid shelter they knew there were civilians there yet they bombed it
@@rogerwilco5918 did you? But you did bomb them for sure
@@rogerwilco5918 they killed over 100k civilians
@Roger Wilco no, you killed them.
Have you find the weapon of mass destruction yet? Not here not there
It was used on his own people you fool ofc it was there. Do you understand how many people we had to treat for chemical problems once we was there. even if there wsn't but there was, His children was raping beating and feeding woman to their dogs for fun. You should learn what really happened and not what the MSM told you.
@Aaaack, has Iraq given back the children of Kuwait yet. No , ok carry on.
@@gerardovicidomini261 "this country did something horrible so let's make everyone in it suffer aswell"
@@start2957 cry
The weapon of mass destruction are regimes of Russia, China, Iran, NKorea.....
The US found oil in Iraq, not chemical weapons. But the lives of millions of people.
Huh?
Millions didnt die in iraq
@@wickendiana8310 Yes, they did.
@@arifahmedkhan9999 source?
Million iraqis got killed by usa Icc: I am blind I can't see Russia sending Ukraine child to Russia Icc: how dare you
Its simple, both governments are evil
That's the hypocrisy. ICC fears sanctions by the US. They tried investigating the US for war crimes in Afghanistan in 2020 and they were sanctioned and threatened with having their US citizenship renounced.
That's just factually wrong.
@@Alexandra-zp3gr Has the ICC issued warrants for Bush or Blair?
@@Alexandra-zp3gr try to learn about Al amiriyah shelter bombings 1500 were murdered by the US airforce.
If Russia has to be held accountable for Ukraine, America should also be held accountable for Iraq.
As if Saddam didn't kill people.
Unlike Putin with Ukraine The US did not want IRAQ to disappear and become part of the USA forever.
@John Smith look at the US base in Baghdad they occupy it's a city in a city...and US occupying bases around the world you think countries like Cuba is happy with US forcefully occupying thier land???
@@916Pashok Russia has 300,000 shooting troops in Ukraine wanting to make Ukraine Russia. The US has 2000 troops in Iraq not shooting and not wanting to make Iraq the USA. Cuba has 8000 sailors and Marines in Guantanamo Bay not shooting and trying to make Cuba the USA. A big difference.
@@Crashed131963 Big difference is you are talking 2 decades later, a million people have died by your actions. And now you have run away when you realized people here hated you
*asks an Iraqi in Iraq about what has changed* “Saddam may be gone, but we now have 1000 Saddams” *asks a random Western researcher over Zoom about what has changed* “Just a lot of corruption and a legacy of oppression from Saddam that continues today, but they got a little free speech now :)) “
That one Iraqi was probably Sunni (Saddam's sect) and gave his own personal opinion, which isn't representative of all Iraqis' opinions. The journalist gave a broader view. Iraqis are not killed and tortured by the government for criticizing it, like they were under Saddam. There are many political parties in Iraq now, not just the Baathists.
@@JK-br1mu lol, dismiss the multiple Iraqi perspective about Iraq, but believe the western one. Okay got it!
@@creative_cooper The fact that the Iraqis can voice that kind of criticism of the government without fearing for their lives proves they aren't telling the truth. The idea of anyone criticizing Saddams regime like that would have been laughable.
@@CedarHunt yay... let's dismiss all their perspectives as lies because Sadam badder. War Justified. Go Murica!!!
@@creative_cooper No, it was one person he cited. Focus. Read real hard.
2003, my dad was a US Marine who was desperate for a fight and fully believed the narrative. By the end of his first tour in Iraq, he was beginning to question things. By the end of his second, when it had been revealed that no weapons of mass destruction had been found, he had been fully disillusioned with the war and capitalism.
My unpopular opinion is, the Iraq war wasn't a mistake, the execution and the aftermath was, supporting Saddam Hussien in the past also was. Tyrants like Saddam, Kim, Putin, Ghaddafi, Assad and many others have to go, but the whole world community should monitor and get involved in nation building stage. I agree with a fictional character from a game saying "The iraqi people don't want democracy, they aren't ready for it" cuz their society is to be blamed partly for what happened. Japan, Germany and Korea were able to build a nation after being invaded and destroyed
@@josefskuratovsky1519 I do believe the Iraqi people want to get rid of the tyrants and do want some level of freedom of choice, but it's just that those middle eastern societies are so stretched and old that they simply can't grasp the idea on how to gain control of their own land.
@@josefskuratovsky1519 you really think US went to Iraq to help it's people?! US government went there to destabilize the region and to make sure that the oil market remains under US control. US government is not mad enough to spend 2 trillion dollars just to give democracy to the Iraqi people. Democracy is just a tool used by the US and other western countries to keep small and weak nations under their control.
Brian Barletic "The New Atlas" There are a lot of US Marines
@@SerginhoPMoura Exactly, and don't think I was calling them barbarians or anything I'm partly Mediterranean myself, I just mean for a democracy to take place years of cultural evolution should occur, Iraq didn't undergo that, they went from totalitarianism to "democracy" so democracy didn't survive. Plus America doing what they always do whether domestically or abroad, instead of solving the problem with education and welfare they solved it with more force, which, like the crime and drug war, only made things worse
We are saying how evil putin is but yet dont like to look into the mirror at ourselves.. ironic isnt it..
Yes indeed 👍 No one's perfect
The fact that they dare to openly complain to a journalist that the current government is just like Saddam sort of says that it isn't.
Exactly
Difference being Saddam had power and authority. Iraqi government doesn't it's run by shias and Iranians, no one cares for their authority. And now all are armed to their teeth so it's basically anarchy that allows them free speech. I guess 2 million deaths is a good price for " a little weaker than saddam govt". Also saddam despite his authoritarianism was a good leader and did bring a lot of development
Iraq has been effectively divided into Kurdish, Shia and Sunni districts. This is what the United States likes to do most in various countries under the pretext of democracy and freedom.
Actually Iran did all that.
@@JigilJigil actually the British did that
@@themacfarlaneranch3342 british empire did the opposite. She banded difrent etnicities together to cause more chaos in future
The US didn't divide the country, the US rejected plans to divide it into separate areas...........the divisions naturally occur to some degree because each group has lot of people in different parts of the nation...........under Saddam, the Sunni minority controlled everything. That evil system is gone.
@@JK-br1mu huh with million of death civilian,,,,,,,,
I like how western media calls it Iraq war instead of American war
It took place in Iraq and there were other countries helping the U.S.
@@MustacheCashStash125 and the call Ukraine war the Russian war and the Vietnam war instead of American war so do you not see the difference there,if it was the Russians or Chinese that invaded Iraq it would have been called the Russian/Chinese war even though the war occurred in Iraq
When ICC blinded eye for Putin's arrest...
Why George Bush is not in the list of ICC ?
Because unlike Putin, he did not order anyone to kill civilians, most civilians in Iraq were killed by the actions of Iran.
He should be - I believe in the west but we’ve lost the moral high ground in Iraq
Lighting up Baghdad? there's that American exceptionalism.
When will ICC have some hearing for Bush junior and Blair ?
When the US money runs out and China gains control over the ICC
🤣You can't arrest real power
@@facts9538 But aren't you for the underdog? Or does that just apply to Ukraine?
There are no arrest warrants, because unlike Putin they did not order anyone to kill civilians, most civilians in Iraq were killed by the actions of Iran.
US exceptionalism. Rules only apply to others
More like how was Iraq ruined
Hey. Whats the icc say on this?
About what?
@@rogerwilco5918 i heard 1million iraqis diedin tha t war.
@@sonnyb.4078 Did they thank the foreigners who came from surrounding countries to blow themselves up? And why did you avoid my question?
Where is ICC?
Hey someone call the ICC hahahaha hahaha...
Kremlin bot.
isn't Bush and Tony Blair wanted by ICC The Hague? or is it only for Russia only?
to get on trial, you need to take away children from the zone of military conflicts, as Putin does. Western politicians would simply kill these children by blowing them up with their families, this is not enough to get on trial
There are no arrest warrants for them, because unlike Putin they did not order anyone to kill civilians, most civilians in Iraq were killed by the actions of Iran.
The ICC charge for Putin is for kidnapping children, not starting an illegal war. Still bush/blair need investigation!
"American and Polish forces invaded Iraq..." You forget to mention Ukraine. They also invaded Iraq.
He said America and coalition forces haha not Polish forces.
Stop spreading lies. Ukraine did not “invade” Iraq and don’t get the fixation with Poland, the coalition was made up mostly of US, Canada and UK, the rest had more humanitarian roles, like rebuilding things.
@@aliancemd Canada wasn't in the Iraq War. You're thinking of Afghanistan.
@@aliancemd 🇺🇦 did sent troops Wikipedia was edited just after the war to make them look innocent You can find their videos in Associated Press.
US UK Australia Poland Ukraine
Iraq was somewhat screwed from the start. When Britain carved it out of the Ottoman Empire, they left its water supply controlled by Turkey and Syria, which got dammed for crops. They cut off its port with Kuwait. They also separated the ethnicities into semi-autonomous states. This caused extreme desperation and tribalism among some in Iraq If any of this is incorrect, please fill me in because that is my understanding from historical research.
yes multi culture does not work, who would have thought
It was a fiction, a creation of the Sykes-Picot Treaty. IMO it should have been carved up into Sunni, Shia and Kurdish independant states.
Your historical reaseach comes from Americans who wants to whitewash their atrocities.😂 ♥️🇵🇭🇷🇺🇮🇶
Nope that's pretty much it right there. If the Ottoman Empire had been allowed to exist in Syria and Iraq we wouldn't be in this mess right now
@@JJMHigner The Ottoman Empire was declining for over one hundred years before it's demise, by the end of WW1 it was completely bankrupt. It wasn't a matter of allowing it to stay together, it was a matter of managing the regional provinces once the centralized government collapsed. The British and French mostly opted to give the various regions independence and statehood while the Turkish nationalists strove to create a Turkish homeland in Anatolia themselves.
Where are the arrest warrants for bush and blair
🤣You can't arrest real power
There are no arrest warrants, because unlike Putin they did not order anyone to kill civilians, most civilians in Iraq were killed by the actions of Iran.
Informative
"You bring down one enemy and they'll find someone even worse to replace him" - General Shepherd
General Shepherd from MW2?
Africa and Asia must unite against USa
It's not easy to come back from such a brutal war...
It was a fool errand to think you can export America across the world.
Yes. The stupidity of the government caused so much pain and sorrow for so many people
US just ruined country and no reparations? What about all the stolen oil?
@Fedor Silva they started it when they blew up the world trade center
That’s what Ukraine will be like, don’t argue 😊
Iraqi writer Ali Al Wardi (علي الوردي) writes: Sectarianism is not a religion, rather it is a kind of tribal affiliation to a certain sect or person, and when a sectarian individual becomes fanatic for his sect, he does not care about the moral or spiritual principles in the sect. Because of his loyalty to his group and hostility to others, he looks at his sect as the Bedouin looks at his tribe"
The psychological phenomenon of tribalism well described. Check the experiments of Henri Tajfel and one of Geoffrey Cohen. Values, philosophy, identity of the group are absolutely irrelevant for our positive feelings towards our group and hostility towards others.
it's not so well informed video, as an Iraqi that lived through all this.
Can you elaborate?
Well, it's the media what do you expect? Lol they suck
and now y'all are proud of what have you done to Iraq !!!! People back in that time were literally suffering from the American army. Thousands of innocent people were killed in the name of liberating and ridding Iraq of corruption. I remember the story that my Iraqi friend told me about an American soldier who tried to shoot at her parents when her mother was giving birth to her .and the American soldier was shouting at her parents while trying to shoot at them , and he was saying free America free America, and now you call that JUSTICE !! imagine happening the same situation to an American person, we already do not need to talk about what would happen to this soldier.
Sometimes, it makes you wonder if the country would have been better off without the war? How many people would still be alive today if their wasn't a war.
The only people who would still be alive would be the people Saddam wanted alive, America gave Iraqis the power to choose for themselves who lives. Much better for the people to decide and kill each other than letting a dictator decide.
U.S didn't interfere in Syria, the outcome was massacre of 300000-500000 by Syrian regime, Iran and Russia, it's not that simple.
Which country now controls Iraqi's oil and gold stockpile, does anyone have any idea?
20% Kurds and Iraqi government who siphon the money militias and Iran
My guess is Iran. Although, Iraq's oil is not found in just one palce. The Kurds, in the north, control a lot of oil.
Not country. US based multinational corporations.
@@hasinurrahman6317 Corporations, no matter what country those are registered as being located, have one "boss"--> almighty money (regardless of the currency -- Euro, dollar, yuan, etc.) The oil/gas companies are multinational corporations. People from all nations own shares and receive dividends, if they have enough money to purchase the shares (percentages) of the corporation.
Iranian proxies destroyed and killed American forces and attacked staffs of American oil companies, So US oil companies had to abandon their fields in Iraq thanks to huge attacks and for instance Exxon sold its share to CNPC of China and NICO of Iran 😂Chevron also sold its share to LukOil, Although BP is still has huge share in one of the biggest Iraqis oilfield ,
worlds needs to get rid of two things one US and Second NATO !
They just need to get rid of bad leaders.
@@kendrickking8897 no nato needs to go at the very least.
Don't be scared kid as long as your leader does as he is told you will be fine with 0 need to fear Nato. xD
Then the whole world will be ruled by dictators instead of just half of it. No thanks.
good luck with that 😄
And when You Germany will take a stance against this brutality? Sovereign, independent one, which can not mention who exploded its pipelines😂
ICC has no charges against true criminals? Why is Julien Assange in prison?
When will ICC issue arrest warrant?
I believe in Western values but the West doesn’t live up to them. I hope not only Putin but also Bush and Blair get charged
Where is ICC to arrest Bush??
Kremlin bot.
Where did bush steal children???
@@JigilJigil Thats what US bots reply when they are out of facts. Trump getting arrested tommorow 😂
@@JigilJigil USA has a bot in a WH 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
if us wanted payback for 9/11 they would've invaded saudi arabia.
One of the worst crimes of our time!!!
Yes, saddam was bad
ElBaradei, the head of UN IAEA said in 2023, said he remains "stunned by the amount of deception and lies" of those advocating for war 2003
What about icc
ICC: what’s an Iraq? 🤡
Why Bush & Blair are not in prison 🤔
Where does the money from oil go?
The U.S. lol
India and China.
Back to Iraq.
"Saddam is gone but we got 1000 other Saddams" I died 💀😂
Yeah it is horrible
Another success story of the warmongers.
still looking for the weapon until now?
DW: wow! US war crimes are awesome! we love democracy and liberty
Exactly. Western arrogance in full display.
You need to not associate a person/leaders deed with democracy and liberty buddy.
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Ye, they did not suggest that in any way. Spreading misinformation…
@@kendrickking8897ut that's the main selling point they use to tell who's good and bad, if a democratic state kill millions it's fine it's necessary if it's other forms of government it's bad and they are evil.
Modern hotels? @1:12 Those are the same buildings from 20 years ago...
Where is The ICC btw??
The cardinal problem was the US went into Iraq on the assumption that you can just install liberal democracies anywhere, it'll work and fix all of a country's problems. All they did was unleash the sectarian divides present in the country. The only ways to fix Iraq brings the country back to square one with Baathism or the Hashemite dynasty's monarchy, both of which the US would really hate to implement. They made the same mistake in Afghanistan, opting against reinstating the (popular) monarchy and went for the good feelz of erecting another bound-to-fail democracy somewhere where it had no business existing.
the cardinal problem was to think the us does't have to respect international conventions and war declarations a can and should invade foreign countries to implement regimes friendly to american political, military and economic interests. the rest was just incompetence and naivete born out of arrogance and imperialist ideology
"Regime Changes"
Too bad they didn’t do more when they had the chance to make a difference
a very simple question…. which is why did you invade iraq??? why did you do it you have killed 3 million iraqi 3 million where are the human rights where are their human rights??
ICC is not aware
Of?
And are the people any safer or in a better place? Highly doubt it
What is Western standard of Democracy and Justice? Somehow I think it is so simple "Do what we say"... Guess hundred years of Colonialism is not enough...
this is neo-colonialism, good old western colonialism, just in a new setting
That doesn't make any sense. If Iraq was doing what the Americans wanted then they wouldn't be pivoting towards Iran and voting for politicians sympathetic to Iran. Just because you want to believe something, that doesn't make it true.
@@Alexandra-zp3gr Yeah, you mean like US and UK (and their allies) wanted to believe that Iraq has WMD, which at the end is not true. And for the question with the Iraq conditions now, we both know that US left Iraq in turmoil and long-lasting conflict. Of course, more likely after they realize thay did something really wrong.
@@mohamadsyafrimunir3685 Iraq had WMD's. They used chemical WMDs on their own Kurdish populations and on the Iranians during the Iran Iraq War. This is all documented. Are you seriously trying to say that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein? A dictator that killed his own people in the thousands and invaded his neighbours because he had one of the largest militaries in the Middle East?
@@Alexandra-zp3gr Then why not do the same to Israel? They literally have Nuclear weapons, they invade their neighbor (seize land in West Bank), kill many people (don't forget those who still in prison). Let say I agree Saddam should be toppled, but will you agree Israel also should be give the 'same' lesson... If not, then what is justice?
Hard to criticise Russia when you've done this...and I hate what Russia is doing but we have no moral leg to stand on honestly
The diffrence is people of Iraq were throwing flowers at US tanks, why Ukranians throw bullets ar Russians, U.S took down the sadam regime which was similar to Xi and Putin's regime and they had the support of all Iraqis, even today majority of Iraqis support the presence of US forces in Iraq, FYI Iran was the key player behind all those civilians death in Iraq adn still is.
It's always nonsense to blame others for corruption as if it isn't everywhere.
Seems we in the west have chose there is levels to corruption and using chemical weapons, beating, raping and feeding your own people to your dogs for fun is to high of a level.
If you promised prosperity and freedom and got corruption instead I'd be pretty pissed too.
The US should be held accountable
*so, basically funny Owen hair is saying that 'we destroy the country and we are so kind to help them rebuild and we help them with reconstruction' - how laughable is that*
and no they can not migrate to our majestic country now that we just have destroyed their home.
how much the West stole from Iraq, the same oil, and shared what was stolen with the former owners, what nobility of Western bastards
America failed to remake the iraqis into their western, colonizer image... AND WE'RE STILL LOOKING FOR THOSE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION 🤣
And Saddam and his genocide was eliminated.....Iraqis who know are thankful for the liberation. The Iraqis hung that Saddam by his throat!
Kremlin bot.
@@JigilJigil BOTS DON'T BLEED 🩸... NOR CAN THEY REMEMBER ALL THE WORDS TO THE ORIGINAL BEVERLY HILLBILLIES THEM SONG 😯🤣🤣🤣
There is no peace now....
Iraqi's are able to protest in the streets 20 years later. Did anybody not notice this?
They invade a sovereign country and tear down its monuments 😅 Who are they to decide what monument is ok , and what's not no mater if its Sadam or others ? The people of Iraq are the one that decide !
Those were the people of Iraq who took down the Sadam's monument.
What have ICC done about this one 😳
What about faluja before 2011
Western countries just help Iranian regime.
they initially planed to squeezed Iran by invading Iraq AND Afghanistan
American empire is at an end… (Revelation 17:1-18)
AMEN to that.
20 years on what. Isn't "on" a preposition?
when one says "20 years on" it means after 20 years.
@@truthdefender4392 So when one is on the job, that means one is after a job. Ok thanks, I got it.
@@facitenonvictimarum174 no it does not. "on the job" can mean 2 things. it can mean that you are doing a task, or at work. maybe it can mean a few more things i havent figured out, but it cannot mean "after a job"
@@facitenonvictimarum174 to clearify when you say [an amount of time] on "on" in this specific case can means [that amount of time] later. "on" cannot mean "after" or "later" in other circumstances
More craters, less people.
ICC still believes in narrative about wmd
ICC is a western geopolitical weapon, all countries should quit the ICC.
Now the world know that the real weapon of mass destruction are regimes of Russia, China, Iran, NKorea....
Just compare McDonald's profit numbers in Iraq lol
I was still in high school the day the Iraq war started
I was 3
@@SpaceRaptor510 Hahaha, I was seven when the Gulf war broke out on my birthday
@@SpaceRaptor510 I was 25... now sit down and let me tell you some horrible history 😅
The Iraq war was tragic and should not have happened. It was like Putin watched how western militaries toppled Saddam's army in 3 weeks and thought "The Russian military can do the same thing in Ukraine". Nope, Russia's military cannot
“For the worse” is the simple answer.
Where's the ICC warrent for Abu Gharib atrocities?
I dont think its heen said enough. Thank you Jean Chrétien for not dragging my nation into that folly of a war.
RIP Iraq (1932-2003)
where is the arrest warrant for Bush from thhe ICC?
Don't forget Blair.
Now i understand US has no right to lecture and sanction on Russia and lecture others.😂
The don't need the 'right' to do it. They just do it because it's right.
Yet you're still listening xD
@@justwatchingstuffhere - on what grounds is it morally right when it aids Israel against a weaker Palestine and aids Saudi Arabia on a weaker Yemen.
@@justwatchingstuffhere Naa Russia doing the right thing , slava Russia 🎉
@@justwatchingstuffhere that means russia is correct? hahahaha
The Anglo-Saxon special military operation.
Where is war tribunal justice system
Nothing but pain, evil, savagery, and most important thing the lost of “ The state of Iraq”,, and the Bastards who has done all that are still enjoying their lives and no one was punished and still dare to say “ we freed you”,,😒😒😒
Oh yes Saddam Hussein was so wonderful. Let's bring back his sons.
Sorry but Saddam was not the "The State of Iraq." He was a genocidal dictator who oppressed, tortured and killed his own people and used chemical weapons on them as well as Iran, and invaded multiple neighbors. The reason for the war was wrong (he pretended he had more WMDs, but didn't) the result of the war was not.
Idk probably better statues?
Iraqi men's fashion: gel one's hair to stand as tall as possible.
War crime all of them should be jailed
What crime? Can we get rid of the CCP china, kim dumb ill jong in north korea, iran, putin, and everyone else?
Big mess… why weren’t the ones who did this trialed in the Hague? Says a lot how the Hague works…
I have always heard that nuclear weapons were kept (at least by us) as a deterrent to attack. And yet, even though we suspected that Saddam might have them, we went in anyway. It may have been the stated reason, but don't discount the neoconservative idea of spreading democracy to the world. All I can say is that I'm glad that when I was there that I never had to pull the trigger.
When people tolerate corruption; they get what they are given by the corrupt. People must stand up and take risks; or the status doesn't change.
And US got ahead of that... They made legal corruption - lobby, and the most corrupt country tells everyone how to live. How much you ready to tolerate this?
This bad day for Ukrainian to remember 20 years Ukraine went to Iraq without invitation. Killing millions and today Russia in Ukraine killing millions. What a karma!
The question is now, who controls the oil assets?
Iraq
They all want power and control
They just wanted to showcase to the world their might
Has US ever apologized for this lie?
No, why do we need to?
@@TheAllAmericanHoneyBadger Because you destroyed a country and killed its leaders based on your manufactured lies. Shame on you!
@@TheAllAmericanHoneyBadger than i don't think Russia would apologize to Ukraine lol
When US says they will give you peace, you are doomed. 😅
Where ICC for US and allies?