is it the situation in the country as far as the voices of the groups allowed within the governments? so in a rocky should always be careful because scared cannot be food. how do we we're told that we needed to bring democracy to iraq and the axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world. or remember george w bush making a joke. look around his office for weapons of mass destruction like opening desk drawers, cabinets, hulu. not here is saddam hussein, who is definitely a dictator from the beginning. people who are happy to be free. as a sniper, people are just trying to hosp blobs of white. it's hard to see what they're holding or carrying. i've killed people, planning bombs and bearing the ambush or troops. but i've also killed people changing their tire on their car. is they really anyone

who's wouldn't fight for the sake of the country? that's impossible. the us described operations in iraq as a war justified under international law and deployed hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the region on deceitful pretences. how has that affected those who were put on the front lines risking their lives for a lie to the

business? 10 with not, that's not how do we efficient during the war? in 2003, around the middle to end of march? i went to my uncle's house because the roads were close to each other. it strikes every variable possible for you to put in my car to get to it now and it was i found them eating rice and dates. there was no place to get food or bread. then the nothing is available. i can walk to the back. what's your full was within the push i'm i'm wondering as not to have just started easy now me. when rockets down the if the governor's office, i'm going to few something. come out of, i'm a public titles. kind of a heavy rock. it struck me

a bunch of junk. what is going on? we'll go for it in the hall. i was so scared that i started eating, but he carried on to my diary when i told him don't you care for? so he told me every 10 minutes, there's a missile and more and this isn't they have it tomorrow. it's extremely hot in a one more time. the when you're magic, you see people. you see human beings. i

remember one guy came through and i just kept looking at him. he was dying right in front of me and he was an american soldier. all i could think about was my grandfather because he was that age. he was somebody's grandfather. it was, it was really hard of this, probably one of the hardest patients i worked on because i already knew that that family is going to lose a father and grandfather an uncle, a brother just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. he was just an innocent bystander. i was not a very good shot in basic training. so it's interesting that eventually i became

a sniper. they were clear and become bad. they were trying to fling me my position and i predicted where they were going to move and waited for them. and as soon as they got out in the open, i pulled the trigger, took them down, and i was filled with a sense of satisfaction. like i did it, you know, i was watching this guy a shot and he wasn't dead cuz he was on his back and he was arched his back like spinning like, kicking with his feet and spinning in a circle and just in pain. and i was like, horrified and i just shot them like 8 more times to get them to stop, move in and just like that. i've never, i never got that feeling of satisfaction again of all the people i killed in iraq. never once felt that another time in 2001, 911,

shocked to us and the world alongside osama bin lot and al qaeda in afghanistan, americans singled out another suspect. he rac continues to flaunt as how still a heap toward america and to support terror as the iraqi regimes has applauded to develop bands, racks and nerve gas and nuclear weapons. for over a decade. on the 20th of march, 2003, the us launched a war against the rock together with britain medical emission of the willing they called it operation iraqi freedom. the

it was the august inpatient during the night and fits proof by the fact that the entire region has nothing destabilized by the present state. georgian, when they occupied baghdad, they occupied the entire region when the regime fell into rock. many other achievements fell unlimited. in the beginning, however, people were happy to be free. they were happy to go, you know, they had the blue psalms after they voted and things like that where i think it went wrong is we stayed there too long. we didn't really have like a full on plan for how to how that helps down after we leave dum from saddam hussein. we didn't find any. what is best struction that we looked we looked pretty hard for me. the cold of terrorism was retaliation as americans killed the rockies. they say it's fighting terrorism,

cannot of the rockies fight back to americans kill them. that's called self defense . none of my leaders are being held accountable for a rock. the us justified its war against the rock as a pre emptive move, the aim was to prevent saddam hussein from carrying out and attack with weapons of mass destruction as a lie. and that's even the us secretary of state. at the time colin powell in directly admitted in an interview with al jazeera in 2011 the by definition. what happened in iraq in 2003 was a war of aggression in violation of international law. the february 2022.

russia launched its full scale invasion of ukraine. here to it all began with a lie. we're putting it there is sure you really do need to speak sadly before i give them the gods that you'll see. the sheets and the deacon starting the partition. anybody's immediate. you've got to go, so is the word system, not simple, so certainly can use collision. it lack of, of what we can statements that the military is asked, the villains if it goes through no sooner had the invasion begun. russian aggression was denounced by most western countries. but the united nations resolution condemning moscow's actions, exposed, clear polarity, many countries in the global south of state and from voting in this included nations such as china and india, representing most of the global population. the,

for some observers, this global polarization can be traced back to the iraq war, a view shared by british labor party m, p, and a peace activist andrew murray. the course there's a moral double standard when you're dealing with the situation in ukraine and the situation in iraq that i served that, i mean, you know, we have the gall to, to, you know, say that somebody basically another nation doing the exact same atrocity that we did is, is the legal in 11 isn't was 25 years old when i joined the us army, 20011 month before september 11th. the

53 when i came into this world, saddam hussein was the room with a that was good or bad. something we had to live with c b o age. i mean, can i use the he really the kids that he room for the fist defiance. diane, michigan, i mean it's not fun fucking, but do you do know the piece at the top, the country and no one else could say otherwise. there was one ruling policy. and that was the boss putting my foot. who, because of what happened with has been by a little bit i will use a rock is, could not give different opinions on political matters. there was only one opinion

on. so we learned that size. you're not on this good kinda thing. i didn't end up in the army until i was almost 23. i wanted to be like a g i jane. and so that was, that was the best way i could prove myself. if i could do that, then i knew that i could do anything else in life. the c s not during the war in 2003. i had a position in the military. coming to me to judge you to have it. i'm all confused . oscar. he had much, one of the officials called us together and told us, brothers, the enemy has arrived,

does determine what is inevitable inviting for us have reached the gulf and us prepared themselves out on the 4th. and we heard that american soldiers, atlanta nearby, at the airport to monitor in the home and then is on the inside of the pump. the soldiers who are at the, portable to cause the americans bombarded the area with precipitate weapons. kind as to how, how long will in my body shop a brand new, active, sole source of customs. these cluster bones of fire exploded before they hit the ground. they killed many people into probably my tones, women out of 10 for that. and that's what kind of the i saw it so i don't need someone to bother with the actual i should myself,

i'm one of the screws is nearby on the airport road for the which is now close to the green. so not as simple as the hold on. i think i'm fine. i see the actual i raised my head to try to see what it was on the so i've seen american soldiers on tv before, but i hadn't seen them with my own eyes. i couldn't then i was seeing americans with tang hums and bullet proof because entering the presidential palace and has in simon made me there. sad tears fell from my eyes. johnny, i cried, i cried. hod, due to exhaustion and for 2, because we lost the battle of it. we'd lost the country and i saw them. and monica said something about it. on the 1st of may, 2003 from the deck of the aircraft carrier, u. s. s. abraham lincoln, president george

w bush declared the official end of the war and the rock. but the real war had only just begun. and so i look forward to a rod, january 2004. here in this massive con boy lined up all the way across the desert on this highway and crossed into a rock. the kids seemed to be living on the side of the road. a group of them were yelling, you know, george bush, number one, usa, number one usa number one. and we drove past them. and then they switched to giving us the middle finger and cursing at us and throwing rocks. and i was like, wow, like and after encountering more and more rockies headed and heading north, even just that 1st day it was clear that we weren't,

we're being seen as liberators. and, you know, save yours and people who were there to help. we are seen as more of the problem the war turned into a longer occupation. after the dissolution of the rocky army in may, 2003, militias formed in the same year to wage an asymmetric war against the us are starting in october, 2004. these aren't the groups included. i'll tell you the, any rough, the take it all take go for it as well as well. we we have over

there from january of 2005 to january of 2006. and i was in baghdad. we were in near solder city. we were on filed loyalty solder city is probably the city that hated us the most. when i would go to treat children in that city, i would have breaks and chunks of rocks and cement, throwing out me and being head the whole time. while i was trying to treat someone, every body in iraq was a threat that women, children, men just so like all of them which showed you all of them, we carry a gun. they would definitely put bonds inside of animals and send them towards the fobs. we always called the marines

like, um, you know, they were just kind of like bullet catchers, buckets. they just go in 1st and they just started shooting. well, the job separation report from any other branch is when you're taking fire or the other branches. when you're under fire, they take cover. not the marines don't take cover or marines go after where the fire's gone from we're like a 100. over a 150 homes and buildings in the day like it was just non stop kicking in doors and detaining people now was it, i mean, it was just, it was that's the

i got to know some of rocky people. it's hard to have a fair relationship and discussion with somebody when you're wearing body armor. have a couple are helmet and a rifle in your hands. every coons, i want to, i don't wanna keep americans products, destruction, religious division, we hunger discrimination and racism. they so many terrible thing honestly, couldn't this if i say i was sitting here with them because we did a lot of missions on the roof of a rocky police station and hit him. and i got to know one of the police officers there who joined joining the police, the rocky police to earn diary to get married. the guy just wrote a motorcycle didn't have any other form of vehicle. so i'd try to try to hook them

up with some things cuz it keeps folks having problems ride his bike around direct um, but it was, it was good relationship. um, after, uh, i would grow, upgrade was exposed, he stopped talking to me in the us run abu ghraib prison in iraq hit the headlines in 2004. detainees had been systematically tortured in violation of the geneva convention. the only sentences handed down where the junior officer is allegedly acting on their own initiative, not to any one in politics or military leadership. however, before that, in 2002, the us government had approved what it termed enhanced interrogation techniques. and it's war on terror. my best friend regina and the civil affairs team was out on a mission and she was hit by one of these new

explosives. it blew her and the calendar wiley and to many, many pieces. and i remember i was outside when they towed our truck back onto the fog. and it is like i already knew. because when you're telling a truck back, it's not good. and i remember her commander walking towards me. a told me what had happened is 2 days before christmas and about 3 weeks before we go home and no, no i don't can pull themselves together not to remove their

bodies from the vehicle. and so they asked me to do it. i don't know any of the guys in my unit that are still yeah. doesn't have high levels of anxiety test. the depression issues a lot of them have experienced homelessness, incarceration gone to jail, substance abuse issues, lot of suicide. a lot of death by overdose. you know, it's like every, every day having to re lives rock over and over again. yeah. the

human am. when my oldest daughter graduation. i suddenly remembered her so stay in the 5th grade tonight. the 3rd thing and exposure to the bottom. it was scary. we were inside the house and said, god willing, nothing will happen on the, on a brief hold on one second. i remembered that i have a child which is at school. i called out to my wife and told her that outdoor we forgot about you run it seems one of the explosions of being very close to the school. we couldn't reach outdoors and we didn't know if she was alive or was monitored and date would be up to vic times it was a honda and it was thanks to god. she was in class with the other students from the middle of the windows, which i knew was only slight injury. lies

in chaos. refugees, you know, a vacuum. they created isis eventually like refugee problem to change the dynamics of politics in europe. you know, just just the score that occurred. the geo political reverberations are tangible to this day, far beyond the rock and the white a region to date, according to international research, more than 4500000 people have died in the wars on terror that followed 911 victims were killed either in direct combat or as a result of war, many were women and children. large areas of the rock are contaminated by depleted uranium, munitions children. there are born with deformities. the economy is in ruins, spelling poverty and hunger. the us has never made reparation payments to iraq or

compensated individual victims the decision of one man to launch a holy, unjustified, and brutal invasion of a rack. i mean the ukraine, correct. anyway. you certificate it. now everything is different. which because we change something and an exchange we lost something else, but then the higher we exchange it for life that enables us to have pets. in colin provides us mobile phone number that ends venue k, hopefully much was better before the

if i were able to meet up with people in iraq these days fall, it would be nice to sit down and have a meal with them. and some of their wonderful t, a part of me feels like it might not even be possible to ever do that because they might just tell me as soon as i get there, i just want to apologize for my personal participation in that hurt. and i want to apologize for my nations participation in it, and i love your country. i love a rock and i can see past the 5 wire and the blowing up buildings and just see wonder the to be

here for you. rocky is every person still wellness stability and development for the country. and there is no stability if we're not safe. and then we need to, we then we'll, we'll do that. i mean, i would appreciate every kind of good samaritans wouldn't listen to my advice. but if they happen to hear me, i'd say stay away from the reach and leave the people alone to different pieces and sure no the these booths were never comfortable stained with the sand, dirt, sewage, and blood the closer to leaving the longer it takes id contact or peachy, contact motors, contact the big contact. oh,

the good not getting enough sleep makes you ugly. at least according to one study. sweetser's researchers found that those who are well dressed in a few are unhealthy and less attractive to others. those who are sleep deprived even awakened feelings of this life, and were judged on trustworthy. that's probably driven by an instinct for self preservation that exhaustive look could also indicate an infectious disease. why do many people sleep so badly and others unexpectedly not off during the day? what helps if your baby keeps you up at night and what are some people.