is it the situation in the country? no, but as far as the voices of the groups allowed within the governments. so in a rocky should always be careful because scared, a 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, so 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 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

bill is 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. so for you to pick pretty much on to get to it. now i was i found them eating rice and dates. there is no place to get food or bread. then the nothing is available. i can walk to get back with you. what was the other push him? i want you not to have just started easy. now me. when rockets down the if the governor's office, i'm going to few some company but i'm a public titles kind of

a heavy rocket struck nearby suff junk. what is going on? we'll go for it in the hall. i was so scared that i stopped eating, but he carried on to my diary when i told him starting your care for so he told me every 10 minutes there's a missile and more and this is and they have a table with extreme and hotmail 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 that was really hard of as 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 flank 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 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 arches 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 be toward america and to support or the iraqi regime has applauded to develop anthrax and nerve gas and nuclear weapons for over a decade. on the 20th of march, 2003, the us launched a war against iraq together with britain, men of color listen of the willing. they called it operation iraqi freedom. the

it was the august and patient living the 19 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 in a rock and 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 sands 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 released from sit on her saying we didn't find any. what is best struction that we've looked we looked pretty hard for me. the cold of terrorism was retaliation as americans killed the rockies. they say it's fighting terrorism. can

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 a lie. but even the us secretary of state, at the time colin powell indirectly admitted and an interview with al jazeera in 2011 the news by definition. what happened in iraq in 2003 was a war of aggression in violation of international law.

february 2022. russia launched its full scale invasion of ukraine. here too. it all began with a lie. we're putting in that issue. you really do need to speak sadly before i give them the gods that you said it was a sheets underneath the participating by some media. but you gotta go. so is the what is the not symbol. so certainly keeps going to give you a list of, of what we can stream it to. the military is as a business, if it goes through no sooner had the invasion begun. russian aggression was denounced by most western countries by 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 where 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 we use the he really with kids that he room for the fist defiance, diane, michigan. i mean, it's not fun fucking, but do you do no problem a piece at the top of the country and no one else could say otherwise. there was one ruling policy and that was the boss putting a foot who because of what happened with his be by as we as a rock is, could not give different opinions on political matters. there was only one opinion

on, so we learned that he did not find 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 9 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 more is inevitable inviting for us have reached the gulf and us prepared themselves. how do i know but the want and we heard that american soldiers, atlanta nearby, at the airport to monitor in the home and then is on the inside of the problem. 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 fi it exploded before they hit the ground. they changed it on and what can take too many people to do? 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 i'm not a simple one at the hold on. i think i'm fine. i see the actual i raised my head to try to see what your thoughts on the so i'm sure i've seen american soldiers on tv before, but i hadn't seen them with my own eyes because 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. honey, i cried. i cried hod, due to exhaustion and for 2, because we lost the battle of it. we'd lost the country, i saw a settlement, monica, 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 rock, january 2004 here in this massive conroy wind 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 to us, a 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 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. starting in october, 2004. these aren't the groups included. i'll tell you to any rough, the take it all take go for it as well as well. sweet. see,

we have over there from january of 2005 to january of 2006. and i was in baghdad. we were 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, man just to 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, bugs, they just go and burst and they just started shooting. well, the job to bring board from any other brands is when you're taking fire or the other branches. when you're under fire, they take cover the marines don't take cover or marines go after where the fire is coming 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. and that was it. i mean it was just that's the

i got to do some, a rocky people. it's hard to have a fair relationship and discussion with somebody when you're wearing body armor, have a killer helmet and a rifle in your hands, recurring job one, the don't want the americans products, destruction, religious division, we hunger discrimination and racism. they so many terrible thing honestly, cutting this if i say i was, shouldn't be able to 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 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 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, abo grade prison, any rock hit the headlines in 2004 detainees had been systematically tortured in violation of the geneva convention. the only sentences handed down where to junior officers allegedly acting on their own initiative, not to anyone 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 admission 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 fobs 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 don't can pull themselves together enough 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, it doesn't have high levels of anxiety. 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 brock over and over again. yeah. the

human am. when my oldest daughter graduation, i suddenly remembered her 1st day in the 1st grade. there's been an explosion to the bottom. it was scary. we were inside the house and said, god, losing nothing will happen on the, on a brief look. see button savannah. i remember that i have a child which is at school. i called out to my wife and told her outdoors, and we forgot about you run 20. it's each one of the explosions and being very close to the school. we couldn't reach outdoors and we didn't know if she was alive or was mazda and date would be out the 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. the certificate if now everything is different. which look like we change something and an exchange we lost something else, but then the higher if we exchange it for life that enables us to have pips. and colin provides us mobile phone number that ends venue k holy mice was better before the

if i were able to meet up with people in iraq these days follow, 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 bible air and the blown up buildings and to see wonder the be

every rocky is every person still wellness stability and development for the country. and there is no stability if we're not safe to come up and then we need to do with them or do that. i mean, i would appreciate it kind of it's americans 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 phases. and each one of 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,

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