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of dreams coming through, making money, having a son, when not, feels injunction stops september 19th on d. w. the any money i mean, which he, i don't want to show my face because of 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 and not being 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. i remember george w bush making a joke. look around his office for weapons of mass destruction like opening desk
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drawers and cabinets who is not here. saddam hussein, who is definitely a dictator from the beginning, people weren't 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 as killed people, planning bombs and bearing the ambush or troops. but i've also killed people changing their tire on their car. is that 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 to risking their lives for
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a lie to get to know what it was, i found them eating rice and dates. there was no place to get food or bridge in the morning. nothing was available. i couldn't walk who debacle. show what was the push him. i want you not to have just started. he's now meal. when rockets fell near the governor's office and a few something. com, the supplement titles, kind of a heavy rocket struck nearby lots of chunk. 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 is inevitable. with extreme and hotmail one more time, [000:00:00;00]
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somebody's grandfather. it was. it's 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 or an uncle or 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're trying to slink 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
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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 moving. 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 shot to the us and the world along side 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 terror the iraqi regime has applauded to develop
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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 vision living the 19 fits proof by the fact that the entire region has nothing destabilized by the present state. 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,
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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 leave dum 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 as a lie. and that's even the us secretary of state. at the time colin powell in
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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. a tier to it all began with a lie. we're putting it that is sure you really do need to speak sadly before i give them the adults that you'll see the sheets underneath the partition anybody's immediate. you've got to go, so is the, what is them not simple. so certainly can you give them a list of,
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of what we can stream it to. the military is asked the business 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. 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
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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 difficulty when i came into this world, saddam hussein was the room with a that was good or bad. something we had to live with should be a huge. i mean, can you use the he really with kids that he room for the fist defiance diane? this might be like this. no, it's fine. it's working. but do you do know
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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 my food to because of what happened which has been by. 5 excuse me, that we as a rockies could not give different opinions on political matters. there was only one that opinion or so we learned that size. you're not in this good kinda thing of the i didn't end up in the army until i was almost 23. i want it to be
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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. clinton, which was retreat, i had it. i'm all confused. i study how much one of the officials called us together and told us brothers the enemy has arrived and is determined. war is inevitable. inviting for us have reached the gulf and us prepared themselves. how not with the 4th, and we heard that american soldiers, atlanta nearby, at the headphones to monitor animal. and then is on the side of the problem. the soldiers who were at the portable to cause the americans bombarded the area with precipitous weapons kind as to how,
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how long will in my body shop a brand new, active, sole source of customs for these class, the bones of fire exploded before they hit the ground they killed many people, it is probably much on something out of 10 for the additional kind of the i saw it so don't. so if someone to bother with the asked my should myself and one of the screws is nearby on the airport road, which is now close to the green. so i'm not a simple one at the moment, but hold on. i think i'm fine. i see professionals, i raised my hands to try to see what it was on the so i'm sure i've seen american soldiers on tv before, but i hadn't seen them with my own eyes. all right,
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and then i was seeing americans with tang hums and bullet proof because entering the presidential palace and has in some it made me very sad to want to use fell from my eyes. honey, i cried. i cried. hod, due to exhaustion and fatigue because we lost the battle. we lost the country, i saw it, 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 warranty rock. but the real war had only just begun or 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
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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, whoa, like and after encountering more and more rockies headed to the 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 seeing as more of the problem of the war turned into a longer occupation after the dissolution of the rocky army in may. 2003,
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militias formed in the same year to wage an asymmetric war against the us. starting in october 2004. these arm to groups included. okay, you to any rough, the state 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
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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. the women and children men just the like all of them which showed you all of them would 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 just the job separation debris or from any other branch is when you're taking fire. the other branches, when you're under fire,
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they take cover the marines don't take cover or marines go after where the fires 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 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 and recurring job one the don't want the americans
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for us destruction, religious division, we hunger discrimination and racism the so many terrible thing honestly couldn't this if i say i always seem to be able to have a good a we did a lot of missions on the roof of a rocky police station and hit it. 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 try to try to hook them up with some things cuz it keeps folks having problems . right. is bike around direct. um. but it was, it was good relationship and after, uh, i would grow upgrade was exposed, he stopped talking to the us run abu ghraib prison in iraq hit the headlines in 2004. detainees had been systematically tortured in violation of the
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geneva convention. the only sentences handed down where to the 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 a mission and she was hit by one of these new explosives. it blew her and the down her wiley and to many, many pieces. and i remember i was outside when they towed or truck back onto the fobs and it is like i already knew. because when you're telling a truck back,
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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 none of them can hold 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 you know, it doesn't have high levels of anxiety test. the depression issues
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lot of them have experienced homelessness, incarceration gone to jail, substance abuse issues, lot of suicide. a lot of best buy overdose. you know, it's like every, every day having to re live rock over and over again. oh, yeah. the human am, the when my oldest daughter graduation. i suddenly remembered her 1st day in the 1st grade tonight. the 3rd being an explosion to the bottom. it was scary, sees we were inside the house and said, god, losing nothing will happen. i was just talking on a brief savannah, i remembered that i have
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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 monitored and date would be out the vic times it was a honda i it was thanks to go on. she was in class with the other students from the middle. the window specializes, disability. there 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,
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according to international research, more than 4500000 people have died in the wars on terror that followed 911 to the 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 are justified and brutal invasion of a rack. i mean the ukraine?
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correct anyway. certificate it's now everything is different. but could we change something? and an exchange we lost something else, but then the height on if we exchange that for life that enables us to have pips. and colin provides us move. i'll find this number that ends venue. please k only micros bit of a function the if i were able to meet up with people in iraq these days follow it would be nice to sit down and have the meal with them. and some of their wonderful
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t part of me feels like it might not even be possible to ever do that because they might just kill me as soon as i get there. i just, and i 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 just see wonder the to be here for your rocky is every person still wellness stability and development for the country. and there is no stability if we're not safe for them. and then when you do it, we then won't do that. i mean, i would appreciate every kind of can 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
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