I want to find the CNN tapes because CNN was broadcasting when the bombs started falling and they lost the live feed from their reporter on the ground. The loss of signal was due to the bombing of the international communications tower in Baghdad
They still do this. PBS is usually good. But the reality is people don't want to watch that. If you're surfing the internet and this is on, but about super boring stuff (it wasn't all war), you wouldn't watch it, you'd watch Fox or MSNBC or whatever else because it's more entertaining.
I was a teen working in the family restaurant during the Gulf War. My 2nd cousin is a Vietnam war vet and he was totally blown away by what we could do. We were watching some footage and the reporter told the audience what the target was and how the guided bomb would hit the front door. My cousin's jaw hit the floor when the bomb actually went through the front door. He said, "I thought the bomb might hit the ground a few yards away and tumble in like they sometimes did when I was in Vietnam. But that fucking thing went right through the door! Knock knock motherfuckers!"
@Withtheseprovisions not anymore. Now the us is in talks with the Taliban and is running away from both Afghanistan and Iraq with their tails between their legs...
@@On_The_Piss annnnddddd there it is. Propaganda, at this point nobody commits to war as much as they did before, mainly cause everyone has become more, anti war. If the US wanted to wipe out Afghanistan and Iraq they would of a long time ago
@@On_The_Piss been in Afghanistan for 19 years.... yeah sure running with our tail between our legs. I don't think anyone really comprehends or understands why we are there, if you think it's to eradicate the world of Islamic Terrorism that's clearly impossible and untrue. Pockets run deep, government is shady. Taliban or any terrorist group with no access to airpower or very little doesn't worry a country with a established military in the slightest
I was in 4th Grade at the time (b 1980), and I still remember this vividly. My Dad made me sit down and watch the news broadcasts with him. "Pay attention to this, it's history."
Rocha Not taking away from the Air Force but Iraq really didnt have any type of weapons, air or ground, that could compete with the US. If anything the Marines lost more personnel but the Air Force might've lost money in equipment
I joined the Army Reserve because of this and I retire this weekend. .... Thanks everyone. Makes my 20+ years almost sensible. THanks everyone for your comments. I appreciate your appreciation and even thanks for the negative comments. I want to thank everyone for the kind thoughts. The Army is neither always right nor perfect. I don't think USA is perfect but its still worth defending. A small part of that defense was me.
That’s technological evolution sped up by war. The war provides the funding to create new materials and technology. No drones would be possible without strong lightweight materials like polymers.
@@williamwalters3796 The US Navy began experimenting with radio-controlled aircraft during the 1930s. The OQ-2 Radioplane was the first mass-produced UAV or drone in the United States, manufactured by the Radioplane Company. A follow-on version, the OQ-3, became the most widely used target drone in US service, with over 9,400 being built during World War II. The first truly successful Radio Control airplane was the Big Guff, built in 1938 by the Good brothers, Walt and Bill.
@@Anarchist86ed dude. My whole point is we wouldn’t have the $50 drones right now if it wasn’t for wars and the technological advancements they brought. Wars made the push for that first new tech, not capitalism.
@@richardpoynton4026 we wiped out like half their coms in one day X) over 2,000+ bombs dropped each day....they thought they were hot shit and got fucked up X)
@@ColHogan-le5yk I imagine he means factual, nonsensationalistic, no opining over bullshit. Just repeating facts, asking logical, non-leading, intelligent questions.
@@docmc6557 if all america cared about was oil, we would have conquered the entire middle east and stayed there, Canada would be the 51st state, and Russia's government would have been collapsed and then invaded. Protecting the oil industry, on the other hand, from falling into the hands of worse than usual regimes for that area, that's important. Better access was a side benefit.
funny what that guy said were ready that's what this ship came over here to do. lol some people think that those ships are just ships but they're meant for the purpose of killing.
A week before war: $15 taxi ride out of the country A day before war: $200 taxi ride out of the country Looks like Capitalism got hold of Iraq before the Americans even showed up
That is how it works, a week before the war is safer, there are many taxis, a day before the war taxi drivers wouldn’t risk their lives, and the ones that would risk their lives wont do it for 15 dollars.
Seeing my fellow Iraqis from that time brings tears to my eyes, I was seven at that time, and I remember it very well. My dad was an army officer, we where listening to Radio Monte Carlo under the candle lights on the first night of the campaign. Curse you Saddam for destroying our country with the invasion of Kuwait. We were ruled by an insane man and his delusional gang.
@lidocaine pka sadam was hated by everyone he was an arab nationalist secularist dictator with that sort of ideology he didn’t really have an identitaires group. Favouring one group over another put his own power at risk so to rectify he just practiced suppressing all groups and especially the kurdd given their separatist ambitions
@@xinniethepooh7174 ok taliban, what the fuck would the taliban would be doing in iraq? if you meant ISIS then fuck no they're literal extremists same thing for saddam I prefer a monarchy
@@Tecumseh4-k2z easy there kitten. He's not insulting Gary Shepard. The guy is very calm, and does not sensationalize what's happening. It is nice to see what news reporting used to be like.
@@charleneclark1817 So was I. I remember it had to do with Hussein being the aggressor. Mainly because he was using chemical warheads against his own people. But I believe that the U.S. also had a motive in preserving oil in the region. Both Iraq and Iran were controlling the market.
@@charleneclark1817 9/11 happened during my first year in collage. I remember the chaos of trying to call my parents. I went to school in near the Dover Air Force Base which was the morgue used to bring and identify the bodies. The next day we heard the deafening roar of all the aircraft heading to Afghanistan. Then 2 years later they launched the offensive in Iraq. I remember seeing it live on TV the gun battles as the assault took place. Probably nothing like what service members experience but I think we all had symptoms of PTSD during those years. Maybe that’s why millennials don’t give a crap about anything.
“I don’t want anything bad to happen to your soldiers or our soldiers, because the war will be a devastating one to both sides.” Wise young man, right there. I doubt even he could foresee how devastating it would be.
@@جعفروسام-ز6كthis is not the same conflict as Fallujah. That wouldn't happen for another 10 years after this. This is covering the Gulf war that was over in 42 days.
@@e.g.o.m.e Not sure if you're aware but we have ways of keeping "just going to civil war" from happening. Also, not sure if you've noticed.. but for us civilians with guns.. we are currently in a ammo shortage. So ya thats kinda hard to have a civil war with an ammo shortage and I have to wait 3 weeks til Walmart has 223 rounds.
I honestly thought we should leave the middle east like most people feel, but recently I seen a video of Isis killing innocent people and our troops, and listened to jocko William talk about his time in ramadi, but now I think we should stay and help the people in those countries, it's our duty as a peacekeeping nation, even if right now the peace isn't being kept by our citizens
Saudis and the American’s had build turn key bases, way before this, ready for the US or allies to instantly occupy these bases to defend Saudi and their assets. They had a barbarian that was worst than themselves to the north and they thought that one day they might need it. So they paid for the infidel to come and protect them from the barbaric Hussein (not to be confused with Barrack Hussein), from crossing the border as they thought they would be next after Kuwait
DJ AUDIO1 man ain’t that true! Everybody now a days has a agenda! They pick sides! We want people that are down the middle do what they are suppose to do, the news.
None of you were alive at that time. When 60 minutes used to bring down politicians and major corporations on a regular basis, those were the days. Now the news is just an arm of the military and the military are nothing more than extensions of oil companies, banks, and corporations. They poison our drinking water and the news doesn't even cover it.
There are at Vice, Matt Taibi, at the Intercept. I'm not that liberal, but if you want a muck racker, you've got to go with the left. The right is never going to expose corruption in big business or environmental problems. So to achieve the center, our right-wing to center leaders must be tempered by a fear of left-wing journalism. If not, we are (and this is our current state) headed towards tyranny.
This country was built on left-wing journalism. The fourth estate is part of the balance of power. Jacob Riis - the original muckraker, put the story of the poor into the living rooms of middle-class voters. Edward R Murrow - criticized McCarthyism and reestablished an America that wasn't a spy state. Walter Cronkite - helped get us out of Vietnam. Woodward and Bernstein - brought down Nixon and his criminal White House. Seymore Hersh - broke the story about the Mi Lai Massacre and Mordicai Vanunu and Israel's nuke program. Without left-wing journalism, center-right politics in America will not survive and we may find ourselves in an unsustainable, undemocratic fascist state, or with a backlash ending with left-wing extremism.
DJ AUDIO1 yes..PJ was trustworthy..Walter Cronkite too..i recall never ever having the glimpse or sniff of partisanship or favor durring their reports. It was a time in Journalism that took such care to be unbiased and allow the News to be the story, not the reporting. Even those embeded reporters, really did a good job of Journalism...enter CNN and Bernie Shaw reporting from hotel room and the staged CNN reporters on a set stateside greenscreen wearing a gasmask and other wearing helmet..claiming to be in Jerusalem durring skud. I remember the Night view of those F111 stealth bombers flawlessly hitting Iraq radars and communications in one swoop, and the tracer AA guns blindly spreading the night sky with shots of the Invisable American Bombers and Fighters. Too bad we couldnt have had that power when Japan and Hitler went to war with the World.."Proud to an American.." now Iraq is an ally. Amazing time we live in
I remember that night. I was a sophomore in high school. My cousin was over there. I was watching ABC News when they announced gunfire in Baghdad. It was hard to sleep that night because I wanted to stay up and watch the news.
I remember too. I was a PFC in Germany. Get ready, bitches! Here we come! Couple of months later, I was there. The desert sucks! Thank God for care packages. I lived off Ramen noodles for quite a while. Thanks to all who sent those care packages! God bless you all!
Jack Ruotolo and? You do know that the only way you’ll see service in that theatre, is if you enlist, right? They don’t do drafts anymore. That ended with Vietnam.
What was disgusting about it? Iraq under Saddam invaded the sovereign nation of Kuwait ( a NATO partner and democratic state) and was told under no uncertain terms to remove all of its forces from Kuwait or face coalition actions. The deadline passed and Saddam didn't budge and the rest is history.
Saddam was also trained and funded by the CIA. Like Noriega his orders were to conduct those operations at the expense of American taxpayers still paying for this fake news bullshit.
Look how advanced Iraq was at the time; girls without scarf, everyone speaks english, they are not YELLING to the camera,... It's a lot different now...
hahaha 'Saddam was dangerous' E.G. he had the potential to make Iraq a real country, not controlled by foreign powers (like the US), which it's not like the US mil/gov is going to just let that fly...
That's Sgt. Hurt to you boot! . Lol. If he had jumped on a frag to save his men- survives with a ripped up and broken leg- gets a battlefield commission to 0-4, gets the CMOH from the CIC. Headlines read... Bush gives top award to a broken Major Dick Hurts.. 😜
That was the best of Iraq. In reality, Iraq was exhausted by 8 years of war and the entirety of the nation's resources being funneled towards the massive Iraqi war machine.
@@dasbubba841 yeah and the us spend 800 billion usd on the war and Iraqu had a 90 million GDP. Well math is math. Even blind American 'patriotism' can't twist that in the wrong way.
@@pablopablos1334 Most of Iraq's income came from oil, which fluctuates. Saddam pumped all the money he could (when he wasn't stealing it) into the military. The military had, by 1990, around a million men, over 5000 tanks, and around 900 aircraft and helicopters. Yet most of the country was desperately impoverished. That university catered to the Baathist elite, so of course it was well funded. The rest of the country was much less well off.
@@dasbubba841 yeah it may be true, but when you compare the infrastructure in Iraq from than and now. It s a decrease and its decreasing even more. War is never a legit tool to change politics in the favour of one country.
@@pablopablos1334 Which is ironic that you said that, because Saddam used war twice to obtain what he wanted. He first against Iran, leading to a brutal 8 year long struggle that nearly bankrupted Iraq, then invaded Kuwait to annex it and steal its oil.
My dad was there in that desert! U.S. Army Scout. Glad the ground forces didn't get mired in prolonged infantry combat. On a second note, it's truly sad to hear the words from some of those college students. Particularly the young man at 5:06. It's a shame that this conflict as well as the continuing conflicts in 2003 until the present day could not have been avoided.
The first war I really lived through, when I was 10-11. Still very vivid for me. I talk about it sometimes to younger people, and some dont even know this war happened.
Just came up in my recommended today, 11/20/20. I actually remember this specific news cast. I was ten years old, and every evening we would sit and have dinner and watch the local news at 6 and ABC world news at 630. America was flying yellow ribbons everywhere as a show of support for the soldiers deployed to Desert Shield and this was the moment the operation turned into Desery Storm.
I'll bet you tell that pointless information to everyone you meet, and people roll their eyes as you come toward them. "Here comes Ivan. He's going to introduce himself and tell you how he was born a few minutes after the Gulf War started."
R.I.P Peter Jennings July 29th, 1938 - August 7th, 2005. 28 Years Ago, 1991 Was a Great Year, It Had The Best Animated Shows, Like, A Bunch Of Munch, The Adventures Of TinTin (Animated Series), Where's Wally Animated Series, Back To The Future Animated Series, Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars, Darkwing Duck, Doug, Hammer-Man, James Bond Jr, The Legend Of Prince Valiant, Little Dracula, Little Shop, Mother Goose and Grim, The Pirates Of Dark Water, etc. etc. and other Television shows too, Like, Blossom, Harry and The Henderson's, Welcome Freshman, Fifteen, The Adventures Of Pete and Pete, Rugrats, The Ren & Stimpy Show, What Would You Do? (a game show), Taz-Mania, Herman's Head, Super Mario World, Wish Kid, EERIE Indiana, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego, Adventures In Wonderland, Beetlejuice The Animated Series, A Different World, Tom and Jerry Kids, Peter Pan And The Pirates, Captain Planet and The Planeteers, Captain N The Game Master, The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, CBS Storybreak, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, The Adventures Of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda, etc. etc. and Great Movies, Like, The Addams Family, An American Tail Fievel Goes West Animated Movie, Backdraft, Beauty and The Beast Animated Movie, Bingo, City Slickers, Curly Sue, Doc Hollywood, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, Ernest Scared Stupid, Eve Of Destruction, Father Of The Bride, Fried Green Tomatoes, Hook, Hudson Hawk, My Girl, Problem Child 2, Return To The Blue Lagoon, Robin Hood Prince Of thieves, The Silence Of The Lambs, Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country, Suburban Commando, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 The Secret Of the OOZE, Terminator 2 Judgement Day, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, etc. etc.
I remember this event all 2 well, I was on the ground at King Fahd International in Saudi, 2 days later we(101st ABN) jumped up north to TAA Campbell preparing for the ground war and the Hail Mary hook!25 years and I remember it like it is happening right now!
It must have been pretty exciting lol Funny to meet real people from that war here on UA-cam, as someone from a totally uninvolved country all those events sound completely removed from my own reality, like just a TV series or movie or something
Flame Resistant Troll The reason I asked is because I know a lot of guys think we should have left him in power until we had a better solution to the problem. Yeah he was brutal, but he kept the terrorists down. I don't mean to sound callous, but a foreign power committing crimes against its own people is none of our business.
I was in MWSS 173 waiting with all my gear to ship over, watched that piece of garbage Dan Rather telling us to expect 75% of us to get killed in the first 3 weeks. My wife and friends were there, they started freaking out. My mother was back home freaking out. Have not had any respect for the 'news' since. Made a tough time a lot worse.
@@boone315 why should the news media have not reported that heavy casaties were expected? That seems like a silly prediction in retrospect, but most at the time expected it to be a lot worse than it was. Iraq had one of the world's largest armies...the fourth largest...qnd it was battle tested due to the bloody eight year war with Iran. It is the news media's job to NOT sugarcoat things.
Why? Same reason why the media wasn't out mouthing off on D day. Did you ever hear of the media predicting the total destruction of the Alamo, invasion of Pacific islands? Or any other military operation until the last few decades? If you don't mind when fellow Americans provide aid and comfort to the enemy of the rest of country then I guess you can be ok with it. I was 20 years old, come from a military family so my mom and wife was the only one upset. But Dan Rather has been a piece of shit in my book since he was the one who did it.
I remember this. I was a freshman in High School, and one of our favorite teachers, Coach Fulton, was over there. We spent more time watching the news than doing homework. When he returned home, we had a huge welcome home party for him. R.I.P. those who didn't make it back.
@@ilickyourtoesatnight9535 my economy? How about first taking a look at your economy? What are you, a lower middle class American who dies of a flu because he can't afford treatment?
@@williamwest9204 it definitely has.... at least in theory I read recently about some of the new advances, but i think its all still more prototype... In essence, the battleships would be great for how they were used in the gulf... to shell coastal areas..... For deep strikes..... the guns still cant outrange cruise missiles.... and for potential enemies like china, i just dont see a heavy ship like that being able to get close enough to use guns.... But if they did it, id cheer
@@nizloc4118 the Chinese anti ship missiles can't penetrate the Iowa class armor, even above the belt line, beyond that yes the range wouldn't be as high as a cruisemissle (250 miles gun range using ramjet rounds) but damage and volume wise it would be as effective and mostly cost effective. Better to throw 500$ rounds at 50$ targets then to waist a few million. Iv always been an advocate for them but the united states has an issue of "newer is better"
I was in the middle of the Iraqi Desert when this day came. I vividly remember my Commanding Officer announcing “It has begun, we are at war!” I was never more frightened and proud to be an American at that moment.
What? Proud to be a member of an invading force based on falsehoods & exaggerated claims..... In the eyes of honesty,REAL heroes are the ones defending their own land, NOT slaves who are ordered around in the interests of corporations( oil & their associated industries who made billions if not trillions as a result of this "invasion"............ i bet your military supervisors didn't mention to you the fact that it was on the insistent by the U.S,UK, (& the other globalist nations such as Saudi Arabia etc ) that Saddam "invaded" Kuwait..... but that's ok because roll on another decade after desert storm, more lies were spoken as truths regarding the second invasion.
@Susan Walters -- proud to be a member of an organization that affords you the very blanket of protection to exercise your right to free speech. As you lay down in your bed at night, in the safety and security of your home, say a prayer for those brave men and women who stand in the face of tyranny on your behalf. The freedom you enjoy comes at a great cost to those who safeguard it. If you are naive enough to think that there are not those who would seek to remove it from you on a second’s notice, I suggest you get out and see the world. Oh and BTW- you may wanna expand your newsfeed beyond CNN as the sole source of truth!
@@susanwalters8567 umm...... this clip is about the freeing of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. Are you really that god damn stupid that you don't know one war from the next?! Wind your god damn neck in you *insert appropriate word* *insert appropriate word*. I lived in Kuwait between 1994-1997, at the age of 12/13 I was trapped in a field in Southern Kuwait with 20-30 other similar aged children, we were trapped in the field as the Iraqis had mined the entire area and parts of it had not yet been cleared by the Yanks or the Brits, there were numerous adverts every single day in English and Arabic warning of the dangers of picking up shiny objects in the desert, you could see posters all over the place of Kuwaitis, and others who were missing after the invasion, incidentally mass graves were found a year or two after my family and I left Kuwait. We also lived in constant fear of the Iraqis coming back over the border, there were two credible threats where all ex-pats living in Kuwait were advised to pack and be ready to leave at a moments notice. I won't even go into the rapes, and murders committed by those animals during the occupation of Kuwait. lets hope nothing like what the Kuwaitis had to go through between the 2nd of August 1990 and the 28th of February 1991, then again maybe it should, as then you might be less inclined to mouth off about stuff you have no knowledge of.
@@aeromedical6750 Sure the freedom of murican citizens was in danger because of Iraq....Clown. Fact is America had no f. business there, same goes for Afghanistan or Vietnam. W. monger monkeys.
That was when we knew it was real. A truck pulled up to our supply with a load of new mask filters, suits, Decon kits, and injector sets. My bud was battalion supply and told me it rolled up with no warning. That and a truck load of body bags.
Relayer6a They actually did put up one hell'uva fight, but like you said, it was just no match for our technology. Any other country would've been in a very tough war with Iraq in '91 considering Saddam had the 3rd largest military force in the world at that time.
Had the iraqis pissed off anyone else they would have had at least a fighting chance with the world's third largest army and the best export equipment available. But it was the US...
This is also the US military at its peak. The amount of hardware mobilized in this conflict just isn't availible anymore. Take the battleships for instance and 700.000 US servicemen were deployed in the Gulf War. This was a US army build to fight the Soviets and the Pact in a Peer to Peer engagement. Instead, they went on to crush a third rate power with this insane amount of firepower.
@@halorecon95 battleships? They were outdated as much in this war as a man of war is in world war 1. Nowadays they are outdated beyond that. Whereas before battleships where your main frontline ship, they were then put into the role of specialized shore bombardment, and then they were retired. Our military is geared to keep the peace, but is prepared for open warfare. We can bring more firepower to any point in the world faster than even back in the gulf war, however that speed comes at a cost. We can easily retool into a proper frontline military should the need to arise, as we are already doing currently.
@@MrCoolguy425 Next time you go on a tirade like this, maybe check up on the Iowa refits, specifically the Missouri and where it was deployed. The fact of the matter is that this was a military built over the course of half a century to fight a world war. The current US military is mostly geared for assymetric warfare. Sure, *eventually* it can get back to its feet. But it would not be able to do the equivalent of what they did in '90-'91 right now.
@@halorecon95 the Missouri has refits, yes I know about this, however even if you refit a Nimitz class cattier with four 16 inch four gun turrets, and equipment to support, it’s not going to be as good as a battleship in the intended role is it? Same thing, if you slap a couple CIWS’ and a Missile System, and supporting systems to a Iowa class, it won’t be effective in the role of a Ticonderoga cruiser.
I was being dropped in the Euphrates River the day before. I was on a US Army COLT team. It’s interesting to see what everyone back home was watching. I was actually nervous as hell. I retired in 2006.
I was thinking the same thing, how interesting it is reading the comments about other people stateside and deployed. I was with the 101st (1/187inf) in some undisclosed location in the neutral zone, north sector I presume since we were one of the last lines of force furthest up north, away from most of the action. It was early in the morning while I was pulling guard at our two-man fighting position, when the Lt. made the rounds to notify us that the bombing of Baghdad begun (unaware of our Apaches taking out radar positions just earlier). Nervous as hell also. Luckily no action for our company. Got out 5 July 1991.
I remember watching this as a kid, 9 years old in Vancouver Canada, staying up late with my parents, watching on a Color TV not a whole lot bigger than one of todays tablets. Those were more or less happy days, life was simple straightforward, there was very little daily bullshit in our lives. Even the news was still news, straightforward and to the point with no sensationalistic propaganda
Started on my 9th birthday. I rememer watching it on tv knowing my older brother was over there. Thankfully he came home some time later. I wish I could share a story or two but he doesnt talk much about it.
@@husseinoskovjino9398 Not sure what ass kicking you're referring to because in June of 2003 i remember being a 19 year old LCpl pissing on the floor in Sadam's palace
I joined up shortly after this...then went on to miss everything.....from late 1991 to 1997....then IR till the year 2000 and done......fuck me.....my unit did get locked down in Oct '93 for Somalia....but of course did not deploy.
Correction: Defcon 2 is "two notches short of war". Defcon 1 is the highest level of readiness just short of war. War is "War". There is no defense condition!
DK: No. Defcons apply to readiness for war, not just nuclear war. So, you are going to argue with the captain of the battleship who is on tape stating what his assigned DEFCON is? I was on duty in the US Atlantic Fleet war room this night and the Atlantic fleet NEVER changed from DEFCON 5 during the entire Desert Shield/Desert Storm events.
@@cityboy9301 Yeah I knew someone would try this, exponentially more iraqis have been killed, and our country seems to be doing just fine unlike the current state of Iraq. This war was not even close to "devastating" for the United States, not...even...close.
@@erickonami1 No losing a small amount soldiers in a war on the other side of the planet isn't devastating, you're just an idiot. If you want devastating losses look at the Russians or Germans during ww2 who also had their cities turned to rubble, that's devastation. Maybe try looking up the word in a dictionary.
coming from Malaysia I can still remember vividly how our homeroom teacher tried to drum up the sentiment of the entire class speaking of it as a tyranny of Christians against Muslims and that war would mark the end of the world as we knew of. though as a minority Christian myself i found that rather unfounded, her words fell on deaf innocent and ignorant ears which thought that it couldn't be helped.
Was in 7th grade! Remember watching it in tv with my parents! I asked my dad who is a heavy heavy reader of all things! Are we okay? He looked at me and smiled and said yes son🤣
I remember that day. My elder sister threatened me to be in house during night, as war might start. I was 7 years old that time and was reading everything about the war from news paper in my country.
"Absolutely nothing happening here..." Meanwhile, the F117 stealth fighters were orbiting the city waiting to fire their missiles....
I want to find the CNN tapes because CNN was broadcasting when the bombs started falling and they lost the live feed from their reporter on the ground. The loss of signal was due to the bombing of the international communications tower in Baghdad
After they dropped their armament they stayed on station to light up targets.
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@@mrprophet9916 I opened it in anew tap and it works so idk
This is how news reporting should be, have never seen news reporting so professional and legit
Red Zero Yes, and it was this way before journalists decided they had an agenda and lost all integrity.
Peter Jennings and ABC News were the absolute gold standard back then.
They still do this. PBS is usually good. But the reality is people don't want to watch that. If you're surfing the internet and this is on, but about super boring stuff (it wasn't all war), you wouldn't watch it, you'd watch Fox or MSNBC or whatever else because it's more entertaining.
CNN is a tabloid
now they all have an opinion to share, like we care
Nobody knew how far the US had advanced since vietnam. Even the US allies were surprised by how far their technology evolved
I was a teen working in the family restaurant during the Gulf War. My 2nd cousin is a Vietnam war vet and he was totally blown away by what we could do. We were watching some footage and the reporter told the audience what the target was and how the guided bomb would hit the front door. My cousin's jaw hit the floor when the bomb actually went through the front door. He said, "I thought the bomb might hit the ground a few yards away and tumble in like they sometimes did when I was in Vietnam. But that fucking thing went right through the door! Knock knock motherfuckers!"
@Withtheseprovisions not anymore. Now the us is in talks with the Taliban and is running away from both Afghanistan and Iraq with their tails between their legs...
@@On_The_Piss annnnddddd there it is. Propaganda, at this point nobody commits to war as much as they did before, mainly cause everyone has become more, anti war. If the US wanted to wipe out Afghanistan and Iraq they would of a long time ago
@@On_The_Piss been in Afghanistan for 19 years.... yeah sure running with our tail between our legs. I don't think anyone really comprehends or understands why we are there, if you think it's to eradicate the world of Islamic Terrorism that's clearly impossible and untrue. Pockets run deep, government is shady. Taliban or any terrorist group with no access to airpower or very little doesn't worry a country with a established military in the slightest
@@StonedCabbage say hi to the Taliban for me next time you’re meeting them for peace talks aka surrender talks 🤣🤣🤣
"a rumor every hour" - Now days it would be "an anonymous source has verified"...
Kevin Katz fAcTs
Rick Stuifzand take a hard look at the mainstream media and then tell me they’re professional. LOL
@Benjamin you said that as if was an insult and as if it meant something . It was neither and you are just an idiot.
Yep just like "Russian collusion" ...if CNN and New York Times and Washington Post all say it...must be true :-/
No it wouldn't
I was in 4th Grade at the time (b 1980), and I still remember this vividly. My Dad made me sit down and watch the news broadcasts with him. "Pay attention to this, it's history."
My dad was the same way. I remember this too. Was also in the fourth grade.
Me too. But I was a senior in HS. The gulf war was the first televised war and we tuned in every night to watch.
@@crazykev6491 try the VIETNAM War was the 1st
Mine was onboard the USNS Mercy in the Gulf....
I was in kindergarten and I would watch with my mom and grandparents. My father was there aboard the USS JF Kennedy
Airforce guy "anyone in my position would tell you they're scared right now."
Marine "LETS GOOOOO!"
Well, give it a think.
The Air Force was the spearhead of the invasion and had suffered quite a bit of loses.
Rocha Not taking away from the Air Force but Iraq really didnt have any type of weapons, air or ground, that could compete with the US. If anything the Marines lost more personnel but the Air Force might've lost money in equipment
Devon Williams You’re a fool. Iraq had SAMs and AAAs that were perfectly capable of shooting down our planes.
The Marines may yell “GOOOOOO”, but they’re still scared. Bravery isn’t a lack of fear. Stupidity is.
Becasue marines are the dumbest lmao. They're all Jeffrey Dahmers 😂😂😂
man...i miss real journalists. :'-(
you still have real journalist...Don Lemon, & Glenn Beck are the best journalist in the world
Brianna LaBlanc don lemon is an idiot
delusional lolololol
you still have me :)
Brianna LaBlanc XD
I joined the Army Reserve because of this and I retire this weekend. ....
Thanks everyone. Makes my 20+ years almost sensible.
THanks everyone for your comments. I appreciate your appreciation and even thanks for the negative comments.
I want to thank everyone for the kind thoughts. The Army is neither always right nor perfect. I don't think USA is perfect but its still worth defending. A small part of that defense was me.
Good for you. Thank you for your service. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sgt
Oooh Rahh!
Andrew a -👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽.
Congratulations from Australia
Thank you for serving our country.
Thank you for serving us Andrew! Enjoy your retirement Sir!
"Miniature unmanned plane that can transmit television pictures"
Me in 2021, yeah a 50$ drone
That’s technological evolution sped up by war. The war provides the funding to create new materials and technology. No drones would be possible without strong lightweight materials like polymers.
@@williamwalters3796 They had the technology back then. Drone tech is pretty old.
@@Anarchist86ed I should clarify. Consumer drones, you know the plastic lightweight 5 minute flight time drones? With cameras the size of a pea.
@@williamwalters3796 The US Navy began experimenting with radio-controlled aircraft during the 1930s. The OQ-2 Radioplane was the first mass-produced UAV or drone in the United States, manufactured by the Radioplane Company. A follow-on version, the OQ-3, became the most widely used target drone in US service, with over 9,400 being built during World War II.
The first truly successful Radio Control airplane was the Big Guff, built in 1938 by the Good brothers, Walt and Bill.
@@Anarchist86ed dude. My whole point is we wouldn’t have the $50 drones right now if it wasn’t for wars and the technological advancements they brought. Wars made the push for that first new tech, not capitalism.
"Well, Peter, I'm getting a strange smell right now. Appears to smell of human fecal matter...it appears I have soiled myself, Peter."
He sounded so monotone I was like wtf lmao
Lol i Hurd his voice as i read
😂😂😂😂
Haha
Muahhah
*Unmanned plane with remote television picture Display. (Old saying)
*Drone with live video feed. (New saying)
And?
@@Reaghansdad1 it’s just interesting
less talk gooder
@@Reaghansdad1 It's interesting how things have changed over the years
And now EVERYBODY has them - including our adversaries in the Middle East.
"So be it... we are ready for that."
_They were not_
They had absolutely no idea what fighting an advanced military would be like.
@@richardpoynton4026 we wiped out like half their coms in one day X) over 2,000+ bombs dropped each day....they thought they were hot shit and got fucked up X)
@@zx6r1320 they were used to fighting much less advanced armies
@@zx6r1320 ermagerdh war is so coooool brooo
@@jakobkristensensandvik5588 War IS cool though, I joined the army so I could kill assholes like these guys
"I don't want anything bad to happen to your soldiers , or any of our soldiers"
That aged like wine
He seemed like a good egg, 👍
Yes...beautiful people killed by us...we will pay for America's sins
@@pawsnclaws2115 Yeah let's just ignore the fact that isis existed. We are sinners!
@Pbperez 210 Where'd you learn that isis was trained and founded by the USA?
I wish that news would still be like this
Right then let's go to war, that's always a good idea.
@@ColHogan-le5yk I imagine he means factual, nonsensationalistic, no opining over bullshit. Just repeating facts, asking logical, non-leading, intelligent questions.
It’s not on the news because it’s an interest of America anymore. The government wanted oil and they needed the people to support them.
@@docmc6557 if all america cared about was oil, we would have conquered the entire middle east and stayed there, Canada would be the 51st state, and Russia's government would have been collapsed and then invaded. Protecting the oil industry, on the other hand, from falling into the hands of worse than usual regimes for that area, that's important. Better access was a side benefit.
it is everywhere else in the world..only the usa and nk has news freak shows and propaganda every minute
"It would be devastating to both sides" U.S. Killed 292. Iraqi Killed 20k-50k.
1991 Iraq had the 5th largest standing army in the world. Casualties were expected to be high.
Also keep in mind that if it wasn't for this, we never would have invaded Iraq in 2003. Think about how devastating that was.
Well nobody knew at the time what would happen.
Oh, wonderful! Here It is, take your most-killed-humanes award, congrats, you have won, good man!
@@mileskessler6634 because back then Americans thought we could do things without consequences.
*We should consider hostilities imminent...what does that mean? war!*
either you hit me first or i hit you first
funny what that guy said were ready that's what this ship came over here to do. lol some people think that those ships are just ships but they're meant for the purpose of killing.
Rejoice, McCain is dead.
almost. lol
Killed me that the sailors just laughed
A week before war: $15 taxi ride out of the country
A day before war: $200 taxi ride out of the country
Looks like Capitalism got hold of Iraq before the Americans even showed up
That is how it works, a week before the war is safer, there are many taxis, a day before the war taxi drivers wouldn’t risk their lives, and the ones that would risk their lives wont do it for 15 dollars.
Supply and demand
Supply and and demand time to get the fuck out
@@xMetalhead2000 yes? Capitalism builds upon that
Had they been capitalist from the get go Saddam would still be in power.
Seeing my fellow Iraqis from that time brings tears to my eyes, I was seven at that time, and I remember it very well. My dad was an army officer, we where listening to Radio Monte Carlo under the candle lights on the first night of the campaign. Curse you Saddam for destroying our country with the invasion of Kuwait. We were ruled by an insane man and his delusional gang.
Knowing what you know now. What’s better? Sadam and the Diablo ‘Uday’ or a taliban/extremist run Iraq?
@@elmascapo6588 Pretty much. I was hoping to get a perspective from an Iraqi. Seems like he doesn’t use the account anymore or something though.
And now its America being ruled by a demented man and incompetent administration
@lidocaine pka sadam was hated by everyone he was an arab nationalist secularist dictator with that sort of ideology he didn’t really have an identitaires group. Favouring one group over another put his own power at risk so to rectify he just practiced suppressing all groups and especially the kurdd given their separatist ambitions
@@xinniethepooh7174 ok
taliban, what the fuck would the taliban would be doing in iraq?
if you meant ISIS then fuck no they're literal extremists same thing for saddam I prefer a monarchy
Gary Shepard narrates a war like Martha Stewart describing a chicken pot pie.
Gunpro28: I take it that you could do better? Are you a journalist? Something tells me you aren't.
@@Tecumseh4-k2z easy there kitten. He's not insulting Gary Shepard. The guy is very calm, and does not sensationalize what's happening. It is nice to see what news reporting used to be like.
Dan pro,
Sure pussycat
@Christian Kenny *the world may never know*
Lol
I love the old school news when the phones are ringing in the background and it sounds like a real newsroom.
These were the days when “Breaking News” wasn’t stuck on the news channel every hour.
I was so young during the gulf war. I was told it was a very intense war
@@charleneclark1817 So was I. I remember it had to do with Hussein being the aggressor. Mainly because he was using chemical warheads against his own people. But I believe that the U.S. also had a motive in preserving oil in the region. Both Iraq and Iran were controlling the market.
@@joebundens2197
My bf served in the gulf war still got his memories. I remember growing up with children from Iraq after the gulf war
It was because of CNN and the Gulf War that we have 24/7 news. That was the exact moment it started
@@charleneclark1817 9/11 happened during my first year in collage. I remember the chaos of trying to call my parents. I went to school in near the Dover Air Force Base which was the morgue used to bring and identify the bodies. The next day we heard the deafening roar of all the aircraft heading to Afghanistan. Then 2 years later they launched the offensive in Iraq. I remember seeing it live on TV the gun battles as the assault took place. Probably nothing like what service members experience but I think we all had symptoms of PTSD during those years. Maybe that’s why millennials don’t give a crap about anything.
as a desert storm veteran this brings back some serious memories. welcome home comrades.
How was murdering civilians for oil?
@@KcarlMarXs How is being a dick to veterans?
@@plumbus483 feels good to piss off state welfare queens
@@KcarlMarXs everyone I killed had a weapon in his hand.....not for long though
@@KcarlMarXs has Saddam Hussein answered you yet?
“I don’t want anything bad to happen to your soldiers or our soldiers, because the war will be a devastating one to both sides.” Wise young man, right there. I doubt even he could foresee how devastating it would be.
30,000 lost vs. 250 but his heart was in the right place.
It is really sad every death is equal.
It wasn't.
@@nathanbasset Fallujah 😂😂
@@جعفروسام-ز6كthis is not the same conflict as Fallujah. That wouldn't happen for another 10 years after this. This is covering the Gulf war that was over in 42 days.
me : 2020 is a bad year, I hope nothing worse can happen
UA-cam : *hEy yOU ?wanna see SomE wAR fOtaGe?*
The US is gonna go to a civil war
There's january for you, thanks Iran
Just wait for WW3. Xitler is rubbing his fat hands in anticipation
@@e.g.o.m.e Not sure if you're aware but we have ways of keeping "just going to civil war" from happening. Also, not sure if you've noticed.. but for us civilians with guns.. we are currently in a ammo shortage. So ya thats kinda hard to have a civil war with an ammo shortage and I have to wait 3 weeks til Walmart has 223 rounds.
@@discojelly not me, plenty of ammo to go around 27k in ammunition
Tell us what you are wearing Gary
Uh...Kakhis?
She sounds hideous.
Some Flak, obviously some sort of flare, or tracer fire.
FapHappyFergus rofl
Favorite color Gary.
Yeah you like that dont you gary.
He's commentating it like it's a sporting event. Missiles coming his way and his voice never changes or falters!
And there's a reason for that ;-) Nothing like having a live spotter or pathfinder on the ground to direct your fire :-D
And from this point foreword we haven’t left the Middle East
I honestly thought we should leave the middle east like most people feel, but recently I seen a video of Isis killing innocent people and our troops, and listened to jocko William talk about his time in ramadi, but now I think we should stay and help the people in those countries, it's our duty as a peacekeeping nation, even if right now the peace isn't being kept by our citizens
We left after this for 10 years then returned and stayed since 2001
Saudis and the American’s had build turn key bases, way before this, ready for the US or allies to instantly occupy these bases to defend Saudi and their assets. They had a barbarian that was worst than themselves to the north and they thought that one day they might need it. So they paid for the infidel to come and protect them from the barbaric Hussein (not to be confused with Barrack Hussein), from crossing the border as they thought they would be next after Kuwait
Ho control the midle east
Control the world!
@@thiccboirook1246 I want to believe that we're a peacekeeping nation and should stay for that, but to be honest I think it's time we come back home.
Peter Jennings was the last of the true journalists. Everyone today is all about sensationalism.
DJ AUDIO1 man ain’t that true! Everybody now a days has a agenda! They pick sides! We want people that are down the middle do what they are suppose to do, the news.
None of you were alive at that time. When 60 minutes used to bring down politicians and major corporations on a regular basis, those were the days. Now the news is just an arm of the military and the military are nothing more than extensions of oil companies, banks, and corporations. They poison our drinking water and the news doesn't even cover it.
There are at Vice, Matt Taibi, at the Intercept. I'm not that liberal, but if you want a muck racker, you've got to go with the left. The right is never going to expose corruption in big business or environmental problems. So to achieve the center, our right-wing to center leaders must be tempered by a fear of left-wing journalism. If not, we are (and this is our current state) headed towards tyranny.
This country was built on left-wing journalism. The fourth estate is part of the balance of power.
Jacob Riis - the original muckraker, put the story of the poor into the living rooms of middle-class voters.
Edward R Murrow - criticized McCarthyism and reestablished an America that wasn't a spy state.
Walter Cronkite - helped get us out of Vietnam.
Woodward and Bernstein - brought down Nixon and his criminal White House.
Seymore Hersh - broke the story about the Mi Lai Massacre and Mordicai Vanunu and Israel's nuke program.
Without left-wing journalism, center-right politics in America will not survive and we may find ourselves in an unsustainable, undemocratic fascist state, or with a backlash ending with left-wing extremism.
DJ AUDIO1 yes..PJ was trustworthy..Walter Cronkite too..i recall never ever having the glimpse or sniff of partisanship or favor durring their reports. It was a time in Journalism that took such care to be unbiased and allow the News to be the story, not the reporting.
Even those embeded reporters, really did a good job of Journalism...enter CNN and Bernie Shaw reporting from hotel room and the staged CNN reporters on a set stateside greenscreen wearing a gasmask and other wearing helmet..claiming to be in Jerusalem durring skud.
I remember the Night view of those F111 stealth bombers flawlessly hitting Iraq radars and communications in one swoop, and the tracer AA guns blindly spreading the night sky with shots of the Invisable American Bombers and Fighters.
Too bad we couldnt have had that power when Japan and Hitler went to war with the World.."Proud to an American.." now Iraq is an ally. Amazing time we live in
My dad was deployed in this war while he was in the Air Force. I was just a toddler at the time. He's retired from the Air Force since 10 years ago.
Stephie2007 your point?
Anonymouse3000 That soldiers are people, not mindless drones.
Stephie2007 congrats
There are many problems with being a soldier in a convential army.
Si no se murio no me interesa
"The weather is clear, I can see some stars in the sky,..."
That's no stars, Gary. That's no stars...
*yeeeeeeeeeeerrrrdddrrrrr BOOOOOOMM*
I remember that night. I was a sophomore in high school. My cousin was over there. I was watching ABC News when they announced gunfire in Baghdad. It was hard to sleep that night because I wanted to stay up and watch the news.
I remember too. I was a PFC in Germany. Get ready, bitches! Here we come! Couple of months later, I was there. The desert sucks! Thank God for care packages. I lived off Ramen noodles for quite a while. Thanks to all who sent those care packages! God bless you all!
Jus' Nuts Thank you for your service brother and god bless..
I was 11.
I’m a sophomore in high school right now and we could very soon be getting into a war with Syria and the Assad regime.
Jack Ruotolo and? You do know that the only way you’ll see service in that theatre, is if you enlist, right? They don’t do drafts anymore. That ended with Vietnam.
News reports like this today would be so sensationalistic, it would be disgusting to swallow.
What was disgusting about it? Iraq under Saddam invaded the sovereign nation of Kuwait ( a NATO partner and democratic state) and was told under no uncertain terms to remove all of its forces from Kuwait or face coalition actions. The deadline passed and Saddam didn't budge and the rest is history.
Does that mean the US deserved to be invaded and bombed for occupying Iraq in 2003?
SPBurt1 they mean that if it were to happen today, the news reports would be idiotic
The news reports are always idiotic and have been ever since they invented live radio broadcasts.
Saddam was also trained and funded by the CIA. Like Noriega his orders were to conduct those operations at the expense of American taxpayers still paying for this fake news bullshit.
Imagine being in that hotel watching the bombing.. what an insane experience
Look how advanced Iraq was at the time; girls without scarf, everyone speaks english, they are not YELLING to the camera,... It's a lot different now...
Yannick20 Iraqi middle class was quite pro British and western before getting invaded.
It's still a lot like how it is shown in this video in Baghdad and such. Iraq is much more than the barren shithole portrayed by the media.
C. Lamp Not likely
hahaha 'Saddam was dangerous' E.G. he had the potential to make Iraq a real country, not controlled by foreign powers (like the US), which it's not like the US mil/gov is going to just let that fly...
Travis Bull ok liberal
1:36
This dudes name is Dick Hurt.
Thats an unfortunate name
No fucking way his name flew over his father's (and mother's..) head while naming him. "Let's name him Dick Hurt" "Great idea!"
That's Sgt. Hurt to you boot! . Lol. If he had jumped on a frag to save his men- survives with a ripped up and broken leg- gets a battlefield commission to 0-4, gets the CMOH from the CIC. Headlines read...
Bush gives top award to a broken Major Dick Hurts..
😜
Internet: Go support this man
The university looks good.... Sad that they bombed iraqu back into the stone ages
That was the best of Iraq. In reality, Iraq was exhausted by 8 years of war and the entirety of the nation's resources being funneled towards the massive Iraqi war machine.
@@dasbubba841 yeah and the us spend 800 billion usd on the war and Iraqu had a 90 million GDP. Well math is math. Even blind American 'patriotism' can't twist that in the wrong way.
@@pablopablos1334 Most of Iraq's income came from oil, which fluctuates. Saddam pumped all the money he could (when he wasn't stealing it) into the military. The military had, by 1990, around a million men, over 5000 tanks, and around 900 aircraft and helicopters. Yet most of the country was desperately impoverished.
That university catered to the Baathist elite, so of course it was well funded. The rest of the country was much less well off.
@@dasbubba841 yeah it may be true, but when you compare the infrastructure in Iraq from than and now. It s a decrease and its decreasing even more. War is never a legit tool to change politics in the favour of one country.
@@pablopablos1334 Which is ironic that you said that, because Saddam used war twice to obtain what he wanted. He first against Iran, leading to a brutal 8 year long struggle that nearly bankrupted Iraq, then invaded Kuwait to annex it and steal its oil.
HAHAHAHA
1:35
THAT DUDE'S NAME IS 'SGT. DICK HURT'
OOOOOHHHHHHHHHH TOO GOOD. WOW. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LAUGHING AT THAT FOR AT LEAST 23 YEARS.
He must be "Butt" Hurt about it.
you wont know what happens til the first blow
Laugh it up with your right he might’ve died for that right.
Will Warden
What?
Dude was probably busting the reporter’s balls.
My dad was there in that desert! U.S. Army Scout. Glad the ground forces didn't get mired in prolonged infantry combat.
On a second note, it's truly sad to hear the words from some of those college students. Particularly the young man at 5:06. It's a shame that this conflict as well as the continuing conflicts in 2003 until the present day could not have been avoided.
How it ends if USA wants to continue ?
You're deluded. "could not have". That's ridiculous
The first war I really lived through, when I was 10-11. Still very vivid for me. I talk about it sometimes to younger people, and some dont even know this war happened.
ahhhh the early 90s. gotta love those years
whats the deal with the egg rolling over a counter top in my right ear?
*Seinfeld theme*
Just came up in my recommended today, 11/20/20. I actually remember this specific news cast. I was ten years old, and every evening we would sit and have dinner and watch the local news at 6 and ABC world news at 630. America was flying yellow ribbons everywhere as a show of support for the soldiers deployed to Desert Shield and this was the moment the operation turned into Desery Storm.
I was born on Jan 17, a few minutes after Desert Storm had commenced.
I'll bet you tell that pointless information to everyone you meet, and people roll their eyes as you come toward them.
"Here comes Ivan. He's going to introduce himself and tell you how he was born a few minutes after the Gulf War started."
Hey Robert,
Why don't you go fuck yourself and go tell everybody, including Ivan! Prick! GET A LIFE!
so?...whats your point
We have the same birthday!
@Ivan Marinov Happy 28th birthday. 🎈🎊🎂🎉
R.I.P Peter Jennings July 29th, 1938 - August 7th, 2005.
28 Years Ago, 1991 Was a Great Year, It Had The Best Animated Shows, Like,
A Bunch Of Munch, The Adventures Of TinTin (Animated Series), Where's Wally Animated Series, Back To The Future Animated Series, Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars, Darkwing Duck, Doug, Hammer-Man, James Bond Jr, The Legend Of Prince Valiant, Little Dracula, Little Shop, Mother Goose and Grim, The Pirates Of Dark Water, etc. etc.
and other Television shows too, Like,
Blossom, Harry and The Henderson's, Welcome Freshman, Fifteen, The Adventures Of Pete and Pete, Rugrats, The Ren & Stimpy Show, What Would You Do? (a game show), Taz-Mania, Herman's Head, Super Mario World, Wish Kid, EERIE Indiana, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego, Adventures In Wonderland, Beetlejuice The Animated Series, A Different World, Tom and Jerry Kids, Peter Pan And The Pirates, Captain Planet and The Planeteers, Captain N The Game Master, The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, CBS Storybreak, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, The Adventures Of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda, etc. etc.
and Great Movies, Like,
The Addams Family, An American Tail Fievel Goes West Animated Movie, Backdraft, Beauty and The Beast Animated Movie, Bingo, City Slickers, Curly Sue, Doc Hollywood, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, Ernest Scared Stupid, Eve Of Destruction, Father Of The Bride, Fried Green Tomatoes, Hook, Hudson Hawk, My Girl, Problem Child 2, Return To The Blue Lagoon, Robin Hood Prince Of thieves, The Silence Of The Lambs, Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country, Suburban Commando, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 The Secret Of the OOZE, Terminator 2 Judgement Day, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, etc. etc.
So, you were a child back then.
1991 News Reporters: Here is how it went.
2020 News Reporters: Orange man bad!
LOL
Gender is a social contrusct
Ah yes the classic "If they report on news that reflects badly on a politician I like it must mean they are bias"
No mention of a president here. Now they wanna talk about how Trump is the problem in everything.
2020 news reporters: LIE LIE LIE BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT FAKE FAKE FAKE LIE LIE LIE!!
I remember this event all 2 well, I was on the ground at King Fahd International in Saudi, 2 days later we(101st ABN) jumped up north to TAA Campbell preparing for the ground war and the Hail Mary hook!25 years and I remember it like it is happening right now!
My brother CHUCK DECARLO was AA chutes away!!!
It must have been pretty exciting lol
Funny to meet real people from that war here on UA-cam, as someone from a totally uninvolved country all those events sound completely removed from my own reality, like just a TV series or movie or something
Thank you for saving the gulf countries council from this evil dictatorship. ;)
Do you ever think maybe we shouldn't have toppled Saddam?
Flame Resistant Troll The reason I asked is because I know a lot of guys think we should have left him in power until we had a better solution to the problem. Yeah he was brutal, but he kept the terrorists down. I don't mean to sound callous, but a foreign power committing crimes against its own people is none of our business.
This one of last times i remember i trusted the media
It truly was the end of real news
I was in MWSS 173 waiting with all my gear to ship over, watched that piece of garbage Dan Rather telling us to expect 75% of us to get killed in the first 3 weeks. My wife and friends were there, they started freaking out. My mother was back home freaking out. Have not had any respect for the 'news' since. Made a tough time a lot worse.
@@boone315 why should the news media have not reported that heavy casaties were expected? That seems like a silly prediction in retrospect, but most at the time expected it to be a lot worse than it was. Iraq had one of the world's largest armies...the fourth largest...qnd it was battle tested due to the bloody eight year war with Iran. It is the news media's job to NOT sugarcoat things.
Why? Same reason why the media wasn't out mouthing off on D day. Did you ever hear of the media predicting the total destruction of the Alamo, invasion of Pacific islands? Or any other military operation until the last few decades? If you don't mind when fellow Americans provide aid and comfort to the enemy of the rest of country then I guess you can be ok with it. I was 20 years old, come from a military family so my mom and wife was the only one upset. But Dan Rather has been a piece of shit in my book since he was the one who did it.
@@lawanarogers32 nah, it was before we knew how bad the media was.
Boss: We need you to cover the Iraq war.
Reporter: Okay, what war ship will I be on?
Boss: Congratulations you get to cover it from the crossfire!
I remember this. I was a freshman in High School, and one of our favorite teachers, Coach Fulton, was over there. We spent more time watching the news than doing homework. When he returned home, we had a huge welcome home party for him.
R.I.P. those who didn't make it back.
Back when Journalists were real. Not crazy biased spreading half truths and being owned by special interests.
Detlef Davis when we can destroy your Economy in minutes but you still think you are superior then us
@@ilickyourtoesatnight9535 my economy? How about first taking a look at your economy? What are you, a lower middle class American who dies of a flu because he can't afford treatment?
@@rainerwinkler1026 oh shit owning these godamn, right wing americans
@OceanBlue idgaf whoever wins here, right wings are too dumb to take real arguments...
@OceanBlue i want to read that statistc lol
It’s crazy that the B-52 bombers that started Desert Storm flew 35 hours straight! This war was truly a jump from Vietnam...
I live close to Brarksdale AFB. We knew something was up by how many left
I actually remember this broadcast as a young teenager because my father was deployed to Desert Storm when it started.
Isaiah Coffey _hi Isaiah I saw your post an although I don't know you or your dad I just wanted to thank you both for your service
I miss the battleships so much. I still feel they have a place in our fleet today.
Of gun technology advanced, perhaps. But otherwise, their time passed.
But I too think theyre cool as hell
@@nizloc4118 gun tech has advanced. The old girls would be useful even today and cheaper
@@williamwest9204 it definitely has.... at least in theory
I read recently about some of the new advances, but i think its all still more prototype...
In essence, the battleships would be great for how they were used in the gulf... to shell coastal areas.....
For deep strikes..... the guns still cant outrange cruise missiles.... and for potential enemies like china, i just dont see a heavy ship like that being able to get close enough to use guns....
But if they did it, id cheer
@@nizloc4118 the Chinese anti ship missiles can't penetrate the Iowa class armor, even above the belt line, beyond that yes the range wouldn't be as high as a cruisemissle (250 miles gun range using ramjet rounds) but damage and volume wise it would be as effective and mostly cost effective. Better to throw 500$ rounds at 50$ targets then to waist a few million.
Iv always been an advocate for them but the united states has an issue of "newer is better"
@@williamwest9204 what you are is an idiot, battleship are outdated and a waste of resources today
@1:09 - "Miniature unmanned planes that can transmit remote television pictures..."
Im so glad we've condensed that down into: Drone.
Gary Shepard has balls of steel for sticking around.
I miss Peter Jennings. I was out there. USS Seatlle. Red Sea.
I was stationed in Northern Saudi in the Seabees, was only 19, watching this brings back so many memories, emotions…..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was in the middle of the Iraqi Desert when this day came. I vividly remember my Commanding Officer announcing “It has begun, we are at war!” I was never more frightened and proud to be an American at that moment.
What? Proud to be a member of an invading force based on falsehoods & exaggerated claims..... In the eyes of honesty,REAL heroes are the ones defending their own land, NOT slaves who are ordered around in the interests of corporations( oil & their associated industries who made billions if not trillions as a result of this "invasion"............ i bet your military supervisors didn't mention to you the fact that it was on the insistent by the U.S,UK, (& the other globalist nations such as Saudi Arabia etc ) that Saddam "invaded" Kuwait..... but that's ok because roll on another decade after desert storm, more lies were spoken as truths regarding the second invasion.
@Susan Walters -- proud to be a member of an organization that affords you the very blanket of protection to exercise your right to free speech. As you lay down in your bed at night, in the safety and security of your home, say a prayer for those brave men and women who stand in the face of tyranny on your behalf. The freedom you enjoy comes at a great cost to those who safeguard it. If you are naive enough to think that there are not those who would seek to remove it from you on a second’s notice, I suggest you get out and see the world. Oh and BTW- you may wanna expand your newsfeed beyond CNN as the sole source of truth!
Proud to be a american 😂😂😂😂😂 murican
@@susanwalters8567 umm...... this clip is about the freeing of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. Are you really that god damn stupid that you don't know one war from the next?! Wind your god damn neck in you *insert appropriate word* *insert appropriate word*. I lived in Kuwait between 1994-1997, at the age of 12/13 I was trapped in a field in Southern Kuwait with 20-30 other similar aged children, we were trapped in the field as the Iraqis had mined the entire area and parts of it had not yet been cleared by the Yanks or the Brits, there were numerous adverts every single day in English and Arabic warning of the dangers of picking up shiny objects in the desert, you could see posters all over the place of Kuwaitis, and others who were missing after the invasion, incidentally mass graves were found a year or two after my family and I left Kuwait. We also lived in constant fear of the Iraqis coming back over the border, there were two credible threats where all ex-pats living in Kuwait were advised to pack and be ready to leave at a moments notice. I won't even go into the rapes, and murders committed by those animals during the occupation of Kuwait. lets hope nothing like what the Kuwaitis had to go through between the 2nd of August 1990 and the 28th of February 1991, then again maybe it should, as then you might be less inclined to mouth off about stuff you have no knowledge of.
@@aeromedical6750 Sure the freedom of murican citizens was in danger because of Iraq....Clown. Fact is America had no f. business there, same goes for Afghanistan or Vietnam. W. monger monkeys.
Cool I didn’t know we had UAVs during The Gulf War
War histories date the first "drones" to the 1850s. Pretty-much air-balloons with time delayed film-cameras.
Also drones were used in WWII.
Yeaaaa buddy
I was in the desert with 2nd Marine Division, hoping I never had to use that atropine injector lol. Getting gassed was the only thing that worried me.
That was when we knew it was real. A truck pulled up to our supply with a load of new mask filters, suits, Decon kits, and injector sets. My bud was battalion supply and told me it rolled up with no warning. That and a truck load of body bags.
Thank you for your service, Marine.
The USA sold those chemical weapons used on our troops
Tell us what the weather is like Gary
Well, there’s plenty of stars, oh wait, they are shooting stars, loads of shooting stars..
Beeeeeeeeeep
5:08 I got good news and bad news buddy
Everyone thought that Iraq would put up more of a fight. Nobody knew the Tech the US military had. Even our allies were shocked.
Relayer6a They actually did put up one hell'uva fight, but like you said, it was just no match for our technology. Any other country would've been in a very tough war with Iraq in '91 considering Saddam had the 3rd largest military force in the world at that time.
Lmaooo
Had the iraqis pissed off anyone else they would have had at least a fighting chance with the world's third largest army and the best export equipment available. But it was the US...
I was thinking the same thing. You'll get your wish about casualties on the U.S. side.
The most one sided war since the last Native American war in the 1920s
This is also the US military at its peak. The amount of hardware mobilized in this conflict just isn't availible anymore. Take the battleships for instance and 700.000 US servicemen were deployed in the Gulf War.
This was a US army build to fight the Soviets and the Pact in a Peer to Peer engagement. Instead, they went on to crush a third rate power with this insane amount of firepower.
They were attacking a country, Kuwait 🇰🇼.
I don’t condone foreign entanglements but this time it was justified.
@@halorecon95 battleships? They were outdated as much in this war as a man of war is in world war 1. Nowadays they are outdated beyond that.
Whereas before battleships where your main frontline ship, they were then put into the role of specialized shore bombardment, and then they were retired.
Our military is geared to keep the peace, but is prepared for open warfare. We can bring more firepower to any point in the world faster than even back in the gulf war, however that speed comes at a cost.
We can easily retool into a proper frontline military should the need to arise, as we are already doing currently.
@@MrCoolguy425 Next time you go on a tirade like this, maybe check up on the Iowa refits, specifically the Missouri and where it was deployed.
The fact of the matter is that this was a military built over the course of half a century to fight a world war. The current US military is mostly geared for assymetric warfare. Sure, *eventually* it can get back to its feet. But it would not be able to do the equivalent of what they did in '90-'91 right now.
@@halorecon95 the Missouri has refits, yes I know about this, however even if you refit a Nimitz class cattier with four 16 inch four gun turrets, and equipment to support, it’s not going to be as good as a battleship in the intended role is it?
Same thing, if you slap a couple CIWS’ and a Missile System, and supporting systems to a Iowa class, it won’t be effective in the role of a Ticonderoga cruiser.
I was in Kuwait when hostilities broke out. Happy this reporter is okay.
I remember watching this exact ABC News broadcast live back in 1991 when the Gulf War started. Thanks for posting this.
2:52 “a certain amount of tension in the air”
Thousands of bombs worth of tension lol
I was being dropped in the Euphrates River the day before. I was on a US Army COLT team. It’s interesting to see what everyone back home was watching.
I was actually nervous as hell.
I retired in 2006.
I was thinking the same thing, how interesting it is reading the comments about other people stateside and deployed.
I was with the 101st (1/187inf) in some undisclosed location in the neutral zone, north sector I presume since we were one of the last lines of force furthest up north, away from most of the action.
It was early in the morning while I was pulling guard at our two-man fighting position, when the Lt. made the rounds to notify us that the bombing of Baghdad begun (unaware of our Apaches taking out radar positions just earlier).
Nervous as hell also. Luckily no action for our company.
Got out 5 July 1991.
I remember watching this as a kid, 9 years old in Vancouver Canada, staying up late with my parents, watching on a Color TV not a whole lot bigger than one of todays tablets. Those were more or less happy days, life was simple straightforward, there was very little daily bullshit in our lives. Even the news was still news, straightforward and to the point with no sensationalistic propaganda
Started on my 9th birthday. I rememer watching it on tv knowing my older brother was over there. Thankfully he came home some time later. I wish I could share a story or two but he doesnt talk much about it.
Man was that kid wrong it was only devastating to the Iraq army.
Clinton Barbee having ptsd riddled veterans isn’t a win either :(
What about 2003?
Your ass got kicked
And why did you bring 38 countries with you
@@husseinoskovjino9398 Not sure what ass kicking you're referring to because in June of 2003 i remember being a 19 year old LCpl pissing on the floor in Sadam's palace
@@husseinoskovjino9398 you got your ass handed to you lmao.
@@USAownage1
That doesn’t mean anything
Remember falluja?
“Man that’s Vietnam music!”
“Why can’t we get our own music?”
Jarhead
Like vietnam, but not as good music
Watched this exact broadcast as a senior in High School when it happened. Brings back many memories. Miss Peter Jennings.
I am now 36 and I remember this night like yesterday
thelakersforlife I am now 49 and remember this like it was yesterday
Man I was young then
Yesterday? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Ahmad: "The war will be devastating to both sides"
Khristoff: "Imma tell him"
Anna: "Don't you dare!"
Damn watching 2019 June, what?? Drone in year 1991??? Damn thanks for those who served before me
j b there is nothing new under the sun
Their were drones in the late 60’s and early 70’s
I joined up shortly after this...then went on to miss everything.....from late 1991 to 1997....then IR till the year 2000 and done......fuck me.....my unit did get locked down in Oct '93 for Somalia....but of course did not deploy.
Correction: Defcon 2 is "two notches short of war". Defcon 1 is the highest level of readiness just short of war. War is "War". There is no defense condition!
Pelican1984 not according to the pentagon, defcon 1 IS war.
BP: No. You are wrong. War is not a "defensive condition". DEFCON 1 is full readiness just short of hostilities.
DK: No. Defcons apply to readiness for war, not just nuclear war. So, you are going to argue with the captain of the battleship who is on tape stating what his assigned DEFCON is? I was on duty in the US Atlantic Fleet war room this night and the Atlantic fleet NEVER changed from DEFCON 5 during the entire Desert Shield/Desert Storm events.
You feel better? No one gives a shit what you think you know.
i give a shit.
It’s amazing how much weapons and technology can change over the course of just a few years
There are always things in the pipeline. Continuous development.
I was 10 years old. This was the first time I was allowed to stay up past midnight - to watch this.
I was in the Navy during the assault. My ship wasn't in Desert Storm, but we almost came close to going there at one time.
I remember this like it was yesterday,my dad woke me up and we watched history unfold.......
I was between jobs back then, watched the news for hours daily during this, interesting for a young man!
I was stationed in the Philippines at the time. I remember Chief Nash coming in and telling us we are now at war.
In the words of Dave Chappelle playing GW...
"THIS NINGA TRIED TO KILL MY FATHER!"
I was in the 4th grade at that time,.
And I still remember our local tv news of the day at 19:30 talk about the Go Ahead events.
What's the weather like, Gary?
Well, its night time, the sky is alight and its 472 degrees.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
Tremendous amazing how the reporters back then just
Large amounts of blue tracer fire, falling uhh, directly from the sky
I was 11 and watching this. I still remember it.
Miniature unmanned planes AKA DRONES!!!!!!!!!!!
They're called UAV's, dipshit.
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joshzelmer UAV's are drones.
Toemayto...Tohmahto...Lycopersicon esculentum.
No they are not. These days they are almost identical back in 91 they were completely different vehicles.
"War will be devastating for both sides" Thats where you're wrong kiddo
I believe the war started in 1991 never ended and thousands of USA troops have been killed or disabled in the middle east since..no winners in war
@@cityboy9301 Yeah I knew someone would try this, exponentially more iraqis have been killed, and our country seems to be doing just fine unlike the current state of Iraq. This war was not even close to "devastating" for the United States, not...even...close.
So Soldiers lives don’t matter? It isn’t devastating to lose soldiers to war? You’re insane!
@@erickonami1 No losing a small amount soldiers in a war on the other side of the planet isn't devastating, you're just an idiot. If you want devastating losses look at the Russians or Germans during ww2 who also had their cities turned to rubble, that's devastation. Maybe try looking up the word in a dictionary.
edgy
I remember watching this broadcast. I couldn't tune off the news for hours.
coming from Malaysia I can still remember vividly how our homeroom teacher tried to drum up the sentiment of the entire class speaking of it as a tyranny of Christians against Muslims and that war would mark the end of the world as we knew of. though as a minority Christian myself i found that rather unfounded, her words fell on deaf innocent and ignorant ears which thought that it couldn't be helped.
USS San Jacinto CG 56 started Desert Storm, I was on this battle cruiser during DS.
Thank you for your service Ricky True.
The battle of San Jacinto...."remember the Alamo!!!"
Wow this was 30 years ago. I was 14. This scared the shit out of me back then. It was constantly on TV
I was watching this very news broadcast. I was in 8th grade, and when they went and an ounce the bombings, I yell to my mom,' The war just started!'.
Oof
ME TOO. I SAT THERE THINKING THAT I WILL NEVER BE OLD ENOUGH TO SERVE IN WAR!
I remember it well I was pretty close to the border of Kuwait and it was beautiful. Don't get me wrong it was a tad bit scary but I'm a Marine
Gonna have to call BS on that. Not the Marine bit,I believe that. But I bet you a pack of crayons you meant SACRED not scared!
Was in 7th grade! Remember watching it in tv with my parents! I asked my dad who is a heavy heavy reader of all things! Are we okay? He looked at me and smiled and said yes son🤣
I remember that day. My elder sister threatened me to be in house during night, as war might start. I was 7 years old that time and was reading everything about the war from news paper in my country.
We're about to see this again.
Hope in your backyard
We need to bring back news like this. I prefer it over regular news for sure!
Desert storm...what a joke. We supported Saddam until we didn’t.
I supported my best friend until he slept with my wife, Jethro.
saddam pissed off the bankers