How Western Media Pushed for War against Saddam
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2022
- A short documentary on the role of the media in shaping Saddam Hussein's image in the eyes of world public opinion and how it influenced the course of the First Gulf War.
Sources used:
- M. Campanini, “Storia del Medio Oriente”, Il Mulino, 2006;
- R. Redaelli, “L’iran contemporaneo”, Carocci, 2009;
- F. Corrao, “Le rivoluzioni arabe; la transizione mediterranea”, Mondadori, 2011;
- A. Plebani, R. Redaelli, “L’Iraq contemporaneo”, Carocci, 2013;
- F. Risolo, “La Guerra del Golfo nel dibattito parlamentare e nell’opinione pubblica”, Centro studi per la pace, 1993;
- V. E. Leone, “Guerra del Golfo. Il mito della CNN e l’impatto delle news sui processi decisionali di politica estera degli Stati Uniti”, 2012;
- D. Commins, “Saudi Arabia, southern Arabia and the Gulf states from the First World War”, 2011;
- F. Halliday, “The Gulf War and Its Aftermath: First Reflections”, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944), Vol. 67, n° 2, 1991;
- T. H.Draper, "The True History of the Gulf War", 1992;
- P. Salinger, E. Laurent, "Guerra del Golfo. Il dossier segreto", 1991.
At minute 4:45 there is an error. The correct number is 500, as represented in the graphics, not 500000.
You should make same documentary video about anti-german propaganda durring WW2 and post war holocaust promotion...
Why did you delete my comments?
US is evil 🖕💀
500,000 aircraft wow iraq was beast back in the day
@@StreetDrilla 499,500 of them were postal pigeons
In 2002 Saddam Hussain said” Oil will will be sold in euros and not in dollars” A year later he was gone
Libya and Gaddafi felt that.
@@cjclark1208 true
I think the consequences of messing with dollar hegemony are obvious at this point.
And now it’s about to be sold in renminbi.
Rip bozo!
Let's remember how it was claimed that Saddam supposedly fed all of his enemies to his 'human-sized shredder'; and let's remember 'Nurse' Nariyah who went to the United States Congress where she publicly testified under oath and with tears streaming from her eyes how she personally saw Iraqi soldiers barging into Kuwaiti hospitals, stealing the incubators and leaving the Kuwaiti babies to die in the floor and only later was found out she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States and that she wasn't even a nurse and that her story was entirely created by an an American public relations firm that also gave her acting lessons; and finally, let's remember Saddam's WMDs which never existed either. And let's also mention that Kuwait is an artificial country created by the United Kingdom from a region they tore from Iraq and which they did so they'd always have a friendly puppet state that would control the Persian Gulf in case Iraq became an enemy of Britain.
I don't support corrupt tinpot dictators like Saddam but I also won't swallow American propaganda uncritically and without asking questions.
Its almost like the US meddle in things they don't understand
Nice
😮
Indeed if you want to know more Israeli are also supporting islamix shia Iranian in iraq-iran war.. israel and iran are friendly they just act they hate each other while in secretly israeli funds iranian. Saddam is fool and victim to these system.
Yes, there is still a shit ton of propaganda about other wars today like the ukraine war. Sadam was an evil piece of shit nonethelesss, he really fucked over the kurds and marsh arabs. But at least there was some form of stability
So I'm Iraqi , I grew up with this mess, I don't really love Saddam , he sometimes comes of as great due to what followed him believe it or not, but I think we Iraqis deserve better than the 'best of two evils' treatment. That said, I think Saddam is often used as like the 'issue' that needed fixing because westerners are sometimes incapable of understanding the issues in the middle east , they aren't very familiar with the history or unwilling to look at it objectively , the way the allies divided the middle east after WWI is incredibly problematic, and we're not even talking about the whole mess that is Israel & Palestine, the way Iraq's map was drawn means it doesn't have a proper access to the gulf , it is also completely depended on Turkey, Iran and Syria for its water, this is why the so called fertile crescent is currently facing draught! Iraq's only revenue comes from oil that they can't control the price of or even decide which currency to sell it in, So of course it's a volatile situation that turns to violence. The powerful colonial empires who sought access and control of recourses all their history somehow thought denying access to these resources to other countries will result in peaceful co-existence! There is also the ethnic divisions which I've seen more people bring up as the reason of turbulence caused by the haphazardness of dividing the middle east, but I come from a Sunni father and Shia mother, and I have Kurds in my family as well it's completely fine, I don't think these tensions were as big a problem until events fanned the flames, the Iranian revolution for sure, but also other interferences, still I don't think the allies cared when they were drawing these lines on the map.
The problem with the West (as an American and Westerner myself) is that we seem to set things up to insure conflict that we can then step in and take advantage of. I hate what my country has been doing around the world for years now. We create conflict to get rid of whoever is standing in our way, whether it be Saddam or Gaddafi etc. Personally, I wish we would stop trying to police the world and let these countries figure things out on their own. Unfortunately, the propaganda of Western media is strong on my fellow Americans and most are too stupid to see the truth of things (See Ukraine). The only thing I can offer you is an apology on behalf of my ppl. It won't change any hardships you've endured or bring back any loved ones you lost but I just want you to know, not all Americans are bloodthirsty warmongers. Some of us just want peace.
Shia women marrying suni men are the problem
I can be mistaken, but i always thought that Oil in Iraq wasn't found until 1927, 7 years after the partition of the Ottoman Empire,
And that there wasn't oil found out in Kuweit until 1938. So i doubt oil was an included reason, drawing of the borders.
yeh but thats not why he invaded kuwait he invaded kuwait because he had a massive debt with them he didn't want to pay back
Wow, thank you so much for your personal insight, and if you have time please inform us more. There is so much that we as Americans have no idea about. Our media is all propoganda, and even the soldiers who have gone over have been so compartmentalized that they have no true understanding. Much love 💕
"Western Media" as a whole did not push for war in Iraq. This occurred massively in US, significantly in UK but in the rest of Western Europe, there was little appetite for a war against Iraq in the media. I have no idea for Pacific countries but "Western World" is not only the US and the UK.
Well NATO is USA . Most of western countries are part of NATO .
@@ayouberriouch5973 Two points you missed:
1/ NATO is not as a media company or conglomerate
2/ The Iraq war of 2003 was not declared by NATO
@@ulthre well NATO is controlled by USA government . USA government have some control of media . It's impossible in time of war that government will note control the media in push it's own propaganda . Second it's true that Nato as whole didn't have a role in decision but that doesn't mean that it's members didn't support support USA . The best example is Poland . What Poland to do with middle East to interfere in its effaire
@@ayouberriouch5973 Sorry but nothing you write has anything to do with the subject at hand. The title is "How Western Media Pushed for War against Saddam", which is simply false as a whole. The media of several western countries clearly opposed the war. Talking about NATO is just a diversion.
@@ulthre I see you take pride in France's jacques chirac opposition, but all that went in the drains after what you did to Lybia. I don t know about Saddam, I was very young back then, idk what you broadcasted in the 90s, but I damn know very well what you did to Gaddafi. And Gaddafi was waaaay better as a person than Saddam, so I can't see how you wouldn t demonize Saddam. The same with Putin today, big bad dictator and we re the saviors. From what I see today, France is just US's dog, media and politicians all alike. You had a real chance of independence with Melenchon, but here we re still living as dogs.
People - Why you go at war with Iraq
U.S congress - Because they have “wmds”
People - Ohh “alright ” so why don’t you go ahead and do the same to Russia?
U.S congress - Can’t, simply due to the fact that they actually have wmds.
People - Confused pikachu face.
They still had chemical weapons but good point
@@Rmon_34 They we’re supplied with those in the Iran war by Nato. In 03 that had nothing and couldn’t develop “wmds”, Simply due to the fact that Iraq was under extremely heavy sanctions for over a decade.
This statement is simply gold and would never get old. Their is thousands and thousands of Nato mercenaries in Ukraine, Who got quite a surprise to say the least for thinking their battling civilians and framers with no military experience 🤣
Nah, if Iraq had nukes they’d be small enough in number for missile defense systems to intercept them. The Russians have enough that it doesn’t matter, enough will get through and wreck havoc.
@@Rmon_34 They had oil and I mean lots of it and they still do.
Man... One of the biggest injustices of our time
Should have destroyed him during the kuwait war.
Or after his gassing of the kurds.
The guy waged two wars of conquest against two countries that killed millions, he got what he deserved. There’s no justifying freaking Saddam Hussein
remeber me something...
The injustice is what happened to the Iraqi people and the illegal US invasion. As for Saddam however, zero sympathy for what happened to him
Yeah, Iraq invading Kuwait was a huge injustice. Luckily the US was around.
The 2nd invasion of iraq has to be the worst foreign policy decision in US history(and that includes Vietnam)
Absolutely. Plus Ukrainian mercenaries getting involved and did horrors in Iraq was a bad foreign policy decision as well. (and that includes 2014 Donbos) I’m from Donetsk People's Republic my family members and people I know from the same region say they will never forget what happened. Свобода для Донбасса и Восточной Украины Слава 🇷🇺
@@mambamolt_tt73 bruh USA didn't invade Ukraine
@@Rmon_34 They did political and militarily it’s a long story though. Just know Ukraine mercenaries invaded Iraq and did unspeakable things with USA mercenaries and today karma got served to them with Azov battalion like a stacked Subway sandwich during a Sunday on a Hawaii holiday.
@@mambamolt_tt73 This is complete bs, nothing to do with reality.
Crazy to this George Bush Senior was US President during the first gulf war and HIS SON (and namesake) GEORGE BUSH JUNIOR was US President throughout the Iraq-stage of the “War On Terror”
And it was the second conflict (initiated by 9/11 attacks and false intelligence) which Killed Saddam, before:
•DESTABILISING THE WHOLE REGION
•CREATING A FAILED STATE
•ENABLING THE SPREAD OF ‘RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM’/WAHABISM (INC. THE RISE OF ‘DAESH’)
•TURNING IRAQ INTO THE COUNTRY WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF SUICIDE BOMBINGS & INDISCRIMINATE TERRORIST ATTACKS
Ohh.. Also #Faluja and that helicopter footage that #WikiLeaks released
And of course it started with British drawing nonsense borders in the middle east...
And the French
They did that intentionaly
@@James-jl4jt I don't think the French were that interested in the middle east I mean they had Syria and lebbon that's what they had
@@stingrayplays Which they got from dividing up the middle east. Look up the sykes-picot agreement
KARMA in coming to Europe
Should of never got rid of Saddam! He would of kept Iran toeing the line!
While committing genocide
Iraq would have faced civil war do you think saddam would continue to be leader
@@ShubhamMishrabro Let’s keep it all the way real… The only reason Saddam is not in power is because of the US… People might not have liked him but Iraq was never better/safer when he was in power
@@all-prolifik3877 no i meant you think due to arab spring iraq wouldn't face Arab spring. With iran supporting Kurds and shia with additional help from hamas and Hezbollah. Libya and syria faced civil war and they had similar political parties with iraq
@@ShubhamMishrabro Iran would not be able to do anything to Iraq. Also, do you think Iraq will be sitting around aswell if Iran tries anything, they would also fund destabilisation in Iran.
12:25 Very proud of my home country of Austria, per capita we contributed by far the most to Iraq's chemical weapons 💪💪💪💪
:c
Beware, i think austrian humor is not well understood outside Austria
what chemical weapons?
Austrian chad:
_First the Austro-Hungary Empire
_Then Dissolving Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth which mistreated their lower class
_Then many talented Artist
_Then Adolf Hitler caused the British Empire and France to quickly decline
_Then help USSR to normalize relationship
_At last helpped Saddam with chemical weapons.
Yea there was another guy from Austria who was a big fan of chemical weapons as well. Im sure you are proud of that too.
there is no separation between usa government and media
Or Israel
I'm English and I remember when they were drumming up excuses to go to war in the early 2000s. I said at the time it was bull and one of our weapons experts lost his life after declaring there was no wmds. I remember at the time asking why the public never got a vote
I was only a kid, about 7 years old. I remember being taught something about WW2, and I asked my mum if we were in a war now too (cause I'm just a kid and ask stupid questions lol). She said no, not like that. The next day I saw the front page of a newspaper my mum and dad had been reading, that said Britain had invaded Iraq. I asked my mum why she said we weren't at war with anyone, but the newspaper says we are. She told me no, that's not a real war. That's an invasion for oil, and it's awful. She told me never to buy the poppies because it was used for the Iraq war, so I then started telling people at school that it's bad to support the war. To be honest when I was growing up, most people agreed, there were only 2 people at my school who would argue with me because one of their parents was in the army. Although I'm in Scotland and I think being against the war was a bit more common here than in England generally (except maybe London or something).
The past year I've been trying to learn a lot more about Iraq that's not completely tainted by western bias. The amount of good quality english sources are incredibly poor, although I've found some interesting books recently. I know that Iran until fairly recently, would work a lot with the west. A lot more than Saddam did despite what I believed before, he was also an ally of the USSR and was inspired apparently by a lot of socialist movements. So much incredibly important history regarding that period, yet so little good quality english sources.
@David Bridges, look like Katherine Gunn got shut down before the decision to go to war.
Because we aren't a democracy, we never were
Wmd's.... the only reason any westerner ever needs to not trust the media
In a rare moment of sincerity the Kuwaiti emir is reported to have said, after the fact, that had he known the war would be such a costly affair (hiring a 34 nation coalition and mass destruction caused to Kuwaiti oilfields and environment), then he would have agreed to Iraqi requests of debt forgiveness and / or not stealing Iraqi oil and / or not massively increasing oil production and / or not purposely crushing the market prices and by extension intentionally hindering Iraq's economic recovery. He agreed he had made a big mistake, and he admitted that it would have been way cheaper to cooperate with its neighbour instead of working against it. Kuwait had to pay 17 Billion dollars in 1991 to cover the cost of the coalition which, accounting for inflation, is equal to 37 Billion dollars today. Iraq was going to be ruined either way, since it was put in an impossible situation, (after having defended all of the Arab countries including Kuwait from Khomeini's Islamic fundamentalism), then Kuwait might as well.
not saying youre lying, but where did you find it, i would like to see from source so i can confidently carry this message forward
I like the use of the word HIRING.... very well written, totally not demagogy at all.
@@CheNoriega "Confidently carry this message forward" 🤓🤓
That was probably said after Iraq was invaded itself in 2003.
There's even more... according to open source info Kuwaiti financial losses due to the oil fires amounted to almost $160 billion USD (1991 monetary value) excluding payment made for the coalition. To say it would've been cheaper for Kuwait to forgive Iraq's 14 billion USD debt is an understatement. That was a financial wrecking of the century...
Whoever has the Americans as allies does not need any enemies.“ - Madame Nhu.
Childish
@@ems7623 Silence, yankee.
Literally the whole europe and half of asia disagrees
It's ancient history now...
Yet we'll keep on paying the price.
People will never learn, and when they do it's too late.
What Iraq truly needs to learn is that the Gulf countries are not their friends. Time and time again they have backstabbed them.
It's the greed and bloodthirsty leaders that make this world a terrible place for future generations
I absolutely love this channel, Simply due to the facts that it spreads awareness, with full honesty and tells the truth in a great way and it’s very detailed as well.
Its good that we have free media
We absolutely need channels like these. Today, we live in a world where the West itself is imposing censorship. UA-cam itself is demonetizing channels that don't go along the West's Stalinist narrative. My deepest respect goes for this channel for the great work it does.
Downplaying crimes for clicks isn't a good channel
Truth? More like "genocide and warcrimes good as long as it is done by Anti-Imperialists not by WESTERN IMPERIALISM"
@@megaham1552i agree he didn't talk about a lot of us crimes
Hussein launched chemical attacks against 40 Kurdish villages and thousands of innocent civilians in 1987-88, using them as testing grounds. The worst of these attacks devastated the city of Halabja on March 16, 1988. 5,000 civilians, many of them women, children, and the elderly, died within hours of the attack.
Overall this is accurate and informative, but in the description of the Iran-Iraq War there is a huge, glaring mistake. Israel supported Iran in that war, not Iraq. Iran's huge, modern fleet of warplanes and helicopters was totally US-made, and it was maintained at 70% operational readiness through most of the war by shipments of spares and ordinance from the US through Israel. In fact, most of America's Western European allies also supported both sides in the Iran-Iraq War.
I believe most of Iraqs weapons were French and Soviet. The US provided Iraq with logistics.
@@Ruder6163 and intelligence and money and covert arms and component shipments and even US made mk84 dumb bombs
@@lastword8783 us also gave chemical weapons
@@YourSocialistAutomaton To Iran 😢 why sell out your Arab Nation to Aggressors
@@Thewickiestofsticks there are no friends or enemies. Just strategic partners.
Neocons have no souls or alliance.
I joined the Marine Corps based off of the fact that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction”. That was 06, I now know that the weapons of mass destruction was only switching from the USD to the Euro🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Mass economic destruction lol
your American think you guys are master of human race,
Weapons of mass destruction.... How many Nuke does your government have?
WHO gave you the right to invade other country.... you are soooooo naive
That's why I never joined, selling my body to the government for them to use me in morally terrible things is out of the question.
Hasn't aged well for you, has it?
Always amazing content and straight to the point. Accurate and very truthful. Great work!!!
This is a war that was happening when I was born, and I know nothing about it.
Every other war though, I feel it's engrained into my brain forever.
Anyone else feel that way about it?
Honestly you should challenge everything you think you know about wars because there are many versions & narrative's at play. Its just like in your personal life where you don't witness a fight & you ask the party's involved & they all say the other one started it.
@@wandameadows5736 Well this channel is perfect for that. It's a bit skeptical from a typical Americans view of the war. Probably cause they're not American... Hahahahahaha
It usually gives and unbiased opinion and point of view. It's why I'm here Wanda. They're different and I love it.
Gonna answer the question I poised though? Is there any war that hasn't crossed your path yet? Anything new to you that piques your interest? A specific battle with a weird connection like your birth year?
The significant war that happened around my birthdate was the Afghan War, but I understood that vaguely in my childhood years in dribs and drabs, mainly from reading MAD comics parodying the film Rambo III, which I was too young to watch.
@@OZTutoh The first one? The Russian invasion?
And fuckin MAD magazine needs to make a comeback.
@@hobinrood710 not really it’s clearly anti western.. as you can tell by how he phrases and writes his title and scripts.
Yes, I remember the New York Times editorial board published an editorial coming out in favor of the war. All the Jewish doctors at my hospital were loudly in favor of the war, and they made clear it was because they feared Saddam's huge army and suspected Weapons of Mass Destruction were a threat to their beloved Israel (and here we all were, American citizens, living in Southern California).
Once again great work! Thanks for the video!
The war was an absolute disgrace, but which media outlet made the hitler comparison?
I don’t know about the media, but at least during the First Gulf War George Bush Sr repeatedly made that comparison, calling Saddam Hussein “Hitler revisited” and comparing the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait to the WWII occupation of Poland.
@@carlireland5049 both good comparisons if you understand Ba'athism
they used terminology like "saddam gassed minorities in his OWN country", making people connect the dots as hitler gassed jews. reality was no where near
@@dragon888193ftw you serious? that's all you've got? So they DIDN'T make a direct comparison to hitler, but some idiots heard the word gas and thought of the nazis? What about mustard gas during WW1? Kaiser comparison? The war was IDIOTIC ANYWAY. That is such a weak link farkin hell "they used the word gas therefore hitler" :/
@@demos5302 the Baathist occupation of Kuwait can’t hold a candle to the Nazi occupation of Poland, regardless of Iraq’s genuine maltreatment of Kuwaiti civilians and war crimes. Yeah, Saddam was a totalitarian despot who had previously committed genocide along with many, many other similarities to Hitler (such as his anti-Semitism and a desire to see his country completely destroyed rather than lose the war). But in the case of the Gulf War his goal wasn’t mass murder. He wanted to seize Kuwait’s oil reserves, and claimed that Kuwait was actually part of Iraq/Kuwaitis were Iraqis. By contrast, Hitler invaded Poland specifically because he wanted to kill literally its entire non-German population. The Nazi occupation was designed to completely starve everyone there to death over the course of decades. Hitler furthermore envisioned World War II as an operation to murder everyone the Nazis considered to be genetically subhuman, which if taken to its logical conclusion would have meant the killing of a majority of the world’s population. As bad as Baathist Iraq and its wars were, to compare them to the Nazis minimises the scale of the brutality and evil committed during World War II
I lived through that time and spent a lot of time trying to oppose the war and it's build up. I'm not an activist type of person, they can often be annoying to me but for me this was an exception. And it was awful, like 90 percent of americans came under a spell that we had to do this war. Most of those people now realise it was a bad call. And that the way it came to be was pretty crooked. That and Afghanistan also cost us our golden century, we were on the verge of making an era of unprecedented prosperity, economic growth and progress. But the cost of the wars alongside the Bush administrations bad management grossly contributed towards ending the possiblity of that.
This sounds oddly familiar in 2023 with how feverish half of the west has been acting regarding a certain war that we basically orchestrated the entire setup for and are now throwing billions at and for what? I love the U.S. but Christ almighty we are obscene when it comes to our war-based economy
It isn't half of the west chomping at the bit for a war, maybe at the very beginning but now many can see it was a setup.
Only the bloodthirsty sewerstream media complex and a vast of majority of the war monger criminals in DC are pushing for the war.. the vast majority of the American people do not want it.
We are sick and tired of endless wars that only the criminals running DC and their globalist cohorts profit and prosper from.
They are also actively working to destroy and collapse the United States within, another war they are pushing so they can crack down with tyranny and authoritarianism on the people.
In order to push their globalist, one world communism. @@imnotracistbut-9559
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Missing out on a golden age? Don't forget that entire generations of people were lost in these wars. People in Iraq live in borderline lawlessness to this day. Afghan children were conscripted into military service and lost their lives, those who survived lost their childhoods. US golden age means nothing in comparison.
Nice touch with the Raiis title 👍
I love this channel.can you explain the way civil war happened in srilanka
As kuwaiti, kuwait government is fucking racist, they should pay respect to our blood brothers iraqis, it was our mistake
As an Iraqi from Basra all Kuwaitis are my brother and Kuwait is like a second home to me. I’d like to say every government is evil. They should’ve had a gentleman’s agreement or some sort of peace treaty. It was a mistake to make foreigners control the region.
As an Iraqi from Basra all Kuwaitis are seen as family by me and Kuwait is a second home to me. Unfortunately lots of unfortunate things we don’t have control over happen. However our governments don’t speak on our behalf’s. Peace 🇮🇶❤️🇰🇼
We all knew what really happened. It was so sad to see this unfold.
Very interesting stuff
Is that background music fair use? I recognize it from a big video game company who shall not be named.
"Saddam was the little serpent, but America is the big serpent"
- Muqtada Al Sadr
Seems like a simple enough situation. Don’t mess with the big serpent.
@@hellohello9400 don't mess with brave Muslims who are always ready to fight. Didn't you Americans learn your lesson from your humiliating defeat in Afghanistan?
@@HistoryOfRevolutions look at muslim countries around the world. All of them suffer embarrassing defeats constantly. Plus you people are busy killing each other. Like in Yemen Only one islamic country has nukes and it’s another shithole that loses to India in wars of all countries.
@@HistoryOfRevolutions Americans never learn since they never accept their losses. They'll just push it off as a "We let them have it" or something stupid and then try to bomb the country again.
Shaytan e buzurg Amrika / Amrika Shaytan al-akbar
@@HistoryOfRevolutionswhich Muslims? They've never had consensus since the death of their prophet.
They've been fighting including proxy wars ever since.
When he opened his trial in court with
"I'm not here to protect myself, i'm here to protect you (the prosecutor and jury)".
The US finally pulled out of the middle east two decades later.
Kor-rea, need almost a pause in there bro, i really paid attention there trying to figure out what war you were referencing.
I love how he says “country”
😂
#FailedState courtesy of #UncleSam #CIA and both George Bush’s
Italy has barely been relevant for a long time let's be real
Wow..you would never hear about this from American media
Obviously. The Truth isn’t profitable enough that’s why.
You could read and hear the American media apologizing and criticizing itself on this very issue during the Iraq war itself, as soon as it was clear the Bush administration pushed false stories about WMD in Iraq.
What you mean to say is "I don't read enough, so I haven't heard the American media say this."
Don't blame others for what you've failed to notice.
What do you mean by "American media"? UA-cam is American media...
I remember quite clearly that there were some who expressed doubt in the American media. Granted, they were in the minority. They were not in the minority in "the West". Skepticism was prominent in European media outlets of many sorts. I was an American living in Berlin in the time reading German, British and French newspapers. Protests happened outside my window when Iraq was invaded.
Much of the energy in the US at the time was still colored by anger at the attacks of 9/11 (which i also witnessed first-hand.) That made it easy for US media to not be pushed towards greater oversight of the Bush agenda. It echoes what was seen in the media after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but other parallels can be found.
What is often omitted from these accounts is how much the US media reversed course dramatically and publically chastised itself after it was clear that the Bush administration argued for the war using bad intelligence regarding WMD. Those were the first seeds of criticism of the Bush administration which continued to grow as the situation in Iraq festered, badly managed with no clearly viable plan for postwar stabilization or reconstruction.
Those who criticize the US media have many valid points. But the ability for "Western" media to reverse course and oppose the policies of government, not to mention publically criticize itself for it's mistakes is something you only see in democratic countries with a free press.
So, some balance in your perspective in this video is sorely lacking.
The problem is not that war happened. It happened and nothing can change it now. The problem is that American leaders at the time were not punished and Bush even got Nobbel Peace Prize which is frankly r*t*r**d.
Lmao did you even watch the video?
Did you even watch the video? Iraq had nothing to do with September 01. Name 1 Iraqi on those 4 planes.
Haha freedom? what happened to Michael Prysner for telling the truth about Iraq. How much freedom was shown during that scene in Beverly Hills? Exactly.
Appologies don't bring back the dead...
Getting more based by every video.
All sounds the same and as nothing new
Nope, still portrayed saddam as le "massive dictator who killed and oppressed his people" same thing deferent NPC
@@Tomas5iq But he at least acknowledges US imperialism and the true economic motives of the war...
@@alfatejpblind6498 ye
@@Tomas5iq Are you syrian bro?
"Of course it's about oil; we can't really deny that."
-General John Abizaid, USCENTCOM
"People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are."
-Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense from 2013-2015
"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the iraq war is largely about oil." (2007)
-Alan Greenspan Head of the Federal Reserve.
Before the war:
"Iraq should be opened to international oil companies as quickly as possible after the war."
-U.S. State Department Future of Iraq Project's Oil and Energy Working Group (2003)
"Of Iraq... charged across the border into Kuwait... We do not have a treaty commitment... Which would obligate us to engage U.S. Forces?
-Rep. Lee Hamilton
"That is correct"
-Asst. Secretary of state John Kelly
8 days before Saddam invaded US Ambassador to iraq april Glaspie told Saddam personally.
"We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts. Like your border disagreement with Kuwait"
-April Glaspie, US Ambassador to iraq
This not surprisingly was seen as a green light from Saddam to invade, when he did the US had there green light to invade.
To clarify more, the Iraqi army at the time of Saddam was from the Shiites... Saddam is not against the Shiites, but against the traitors who cooperate with Iran
Only those who are sick in spirit, throw stones at others. Both are in need of a physician.... So to speak. Agape to you my friend.
I don't disagree with your there.
Just be aware that there are perspectives on this conflict that run contrary to this video, like "Why American invaded Iraq" by PragerU. Sources are required for discernment, which Simone has provided here.
@@OZTutoh many things have been done to save the Petro dollar.
I really like this channel spewing the dirt of the West is very entertaining and somewhat funny.
Nice use of the Battlefield 3 soundtrack
it’s 1898 all over again.
The US fights the battles while CNN makes the war.
All to crush the Post Vietnam War Mentality…
All thanks to a diplomatic mistake, the George H.W. Bush foreign department made a lot of mistakes that had consequences.
(With Iraq says that America had no interest in any issues between Iraq and Kuwait, which Saddam believed = Yes Invade Kuwait… With the USSR the one diplomat made an emotional stance and decreed that NATO wouldn’t expand into Eastern Europe, and although Bush back tracked on that declaration because it wasn’t an official policy, there was an undocumented vague agreement between Gorbachev & Bush I that Boris Yeltsin didn’t remember or cared about when Poland joined NATO in 1999).
Meanwhile Iraq Today 💀
Saddam will always be a hero here in Detroit. Give us your huddled masses and etc
Don't speak for Detroit like that. You have no idea what your saying
@@calobgilchrest8487 yea I'm sure chaldean town created its self keep smiling in the dark JAMBOY
I remember my parents and relatives watched his execution on tv and had us little ones in the next room
I believe that getting rid of Saddam Hussein greatly destabilized the Middle East and Iraq in particular. Sure he was ruthless against his enemies but he kept the bad elements in his country in check (i.e. extremists). In other words, Iraq was more stable when his government was in power. After America invaded and Saddam died, extremism (AQ) thrived in Iraq and ultimately ushered in Daesh. Unfortunately in this case, in my humble opinion, it’s the lesser of two evils that should have prevailed.
The Bad elements were not really a factor. The missery that came during the sanctions and later the third gulf war was what gave room for Religions Extremism. Life in Iraq was always hard, but people made life work the best way they could. When the americans took their futher away and later their dignity things really got going. Iraq has been dead as a state for a long time, the mutilated corpse being barley kept alive by the US.
Don’t worry, they learned their lesson. They definitely aren’t pushing war in europe right now.
Huh?
Jarhead is a great movie. It really captured the culture and feel of being in the military up until the mid-2000s.
What a F$!%^$!, let's watch it again!
Kuwait’s capital is “Kuwait City” not “Al Kuwait” and the population in 1990 was around 2 million not 4.5 million 0:22
if this channel can't even get simple facts about the country he's speaking about why is his opinion even relevant, im sure someone here can tell me.
@@WILLPORKER yea he has great graphics but definitely major errors in the facts. Also the BS about “disproportionate” attacks is nonsense.
yes he used the Italian name "Al Kuwait" instead of the English one "Kuwait City".
@@letiziacolucci7456 exactly so he wasn’t wrong
Al Kuwait is the right name though? this is coming from an Arab
Sad sad history
no. this is not propaganda at all.
Western propaganda plays the same playbook over and over agains.
And people keep falling for it, over and over again.
@@MassielRoss In the GDR (East Germany) the same playbook was used for the first time of internal revolution which was later used here in Tunisia with our so called Jasmin revolution.
@@MassielRoss then it is succesfull.
@@user-lo1ut9df6d unfortunately.
@@MassielRoss Well everyone has their own propaganda. So Western media itself isn't really unique.
We are laughing at the medival ages, meanwhile us:
The Audio wont work lol I need better speakers
Hmm this playbook seems familiar..
why dont you talk on how king hussein of jordan wanted that saddam leaves kuwait. saddam agreed but under one condition that was small but you all still didn't follow
Thankfully the media and the U.S. government have learned their lesson and they most certainly wouldn’t repeat this again and again…and currently with Putin/Russia.
I think the only issue is they didn't help rebuild and stabilise the region to the degree required.
Hello. Nice Route 66 poster. I live right next to Route 66!
0:48 wow, why so many small countries involved?? Lol!😂
It was time when cold war had ended everyone was buddy buddy even russia supported us invasion
good dog🐶
@The Truth Aa, slaves!!
The Arab coalition supported the based invasion because one of their allies was occupied
When you want feel like superpower so you attack a weak country with a help of a strong
Long live Iraq
The most horrifying part of all of this is that he was keeping Isis in check
So every time a country has a good president the US labels them as a threat to American freedom and democracy. Which is happening with my Mexican president AMLO. You better not mess with him.
Wow even Bangladesh sent 2,200 troops
Well we had no other choice. A lot of Bangladeshi was living in Kuwait. For example: Three of my uncle was in Kuwait. Back then our family( Join family) was in very poor state. My father and his other siblings were dependent of their money. After iraq invaded Kuwait, my uncles did not even got their payment on that month and had to fled for their lives. But Iraqi soldiers did not made it easy. It was total hell in Kuwait. Aftern going to Jordan my uncles finally got into a cargo plane and came to Bangladesh.
*says USSR
*shows Russia
Well he is not wrong
Somalia was like nope… not today…
The Pentagon cannot survive without a war.
The US will never succeed in any invasion, not because they are incompetent but their failure lies in how they sell the war to their soldiers, the way they motivate their soldiers ensures a very high level of arrogance and condescending attitude towards the enemy and generally the civilians of the lands with which they invade .and in guerrilla warfare and insurgencies arrogance is the achilles heal.
Just look at Vietnam - humiliation
Somalia - humiliation
Afghanistan - humiliation
And compare it with interventions in Europe such as Ww 2 or Kosovo... there's a reason why they didn't end in a humiliating withdrawal or spin out into insurgencies.Heck even Korea ....
This is the most illitarate comment i saw in my life, i know that you know jack shit about the most basic rules of warfare
@@BirdsInCrimeI think he means that in wealthy countries the media and government have a habit of seeing worse off countries as less advanced and soft targets. Causing them to underestimate them look at Vietnam with the propaganda comparing the local people to monkeys what do you think that does to a person's threat detection he'll think they're just some barbarians they can't hurt me.
They don't care about humiliation, as long as the enemy is beaten and the country is destroyed. America will forever see Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, and Syria as victories because those countries have been crippled and cannot stand back to fight. Afghanistan is the only exception, as America's puppet government in Afghanistan was kicked out, so now they just sanction Afghanistan and are waiting to resupply before they invade again.
Iran is the only country that America has truly lost to and been disgraced by, and that's why the US actively tries to get the Islamic government to break and be disposed of. This is also why there's US military bases all around Iran, many in Iraq & Pakistan, all ready to invade Iran when the time comes. Iran's recent deal with Saudi Arabia has really angered America.
I can actually confirm the arrogance and treating the civilians part, I always found my platoon filled with people who just ridiculed the native population behind their backs
The invasions actually went well the problem was occupation
People want a free press but there are consequences since a free press is not run by the people but instead by corporate entities who have the wealth to distribute the press so what we get a is a tug of war between wealthy corporate entities that control the press and government attempting to control the press and individual who do not understand this tug of war and blindly follow its conclusions. Even a free press that not dependent on "investment" still is dependent on the education and skill of its writers and investigators, and their own biases...so free press cannot be free but is always at the mercy of those that control it or at best create it.
He went after the Kurds you dont do that.
At least we’ve learned since then. Right, kids?
Where is Simone and what have you done with him?!
Now sadham russeim is a good guy lmao be blessed that you live in a country that you can public criticize without getting stoned
I remember watching The invasion in March of 03 with and then two months later in May when I turned eighteen right after graduation going to fort Jackson
Sadly, history repeats itself as there are suckers born every day.
Sad
real muslims hero saddam hussain ❤❤
"If you take out Saddam, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations in the region"
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to the American Congress in 2002
Us : oil oil oil 🤑
This country needs freedom and democracy
He kil_led 1303 innocent Kuwaitis in 1990-1991
He kil_led 75,000 Kurdish civilians in 1987-1988
He kil_led 500,000 Iranian civilians in 1980-1988
He kil_led 80,000 Iraqi Shia in 1991-1992
HE IS NOT INNOCENT
Shut up at least there was stability and not a terrorist feeding ground like it is now dude
War has its casualties and I am not sure if those kurds or iraqi shia really were civilians. Not to mention that iraq isnt a western country so rule is mostly based on force instead of consent.
Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, George H.W Bush, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Jackie Smith, Barack Obama, etc. Combine have well over 5 Million civilians.
@@miniaturejayhawk8702 Are you trying to justify war and Terror ? ( certainly 75,000 people were all militants, and thus he had to burn down 4000 villages 🙄 )
Not being a western country doesn’t mean you can’t have democracy, Taiwan, Tunisia, and Kuwait to some extent are examples of non-western countries with some degree of reasonable democracy .
Now how much did the ones talking about human rights have done?
Lets not forget that Sadam was America's golden boy and we actually gave him the position to stick it to Iran.
Wasn't very greatfull, was he?
@@jasperchance3382 He was doing the same shit back then,, but the US had no problem with it because he was our lapdog. Kind of hypocritical to then condemn him later on. The same ironically with Osama Bin Laden. He was trained by our Seal Teams to do exactly what he did on 9/11.
The monster you create will always bite the hand that creates it. But that makes the US no less responsible for creating it in the first place.
500.000 aircraft? That don’t makes sense
500 aircraft
Desert Storm, brilliant tactics, terrible strategy
isnt that what the media is now formulating about China?
and partially about russia
As an American with Pakistani descent, please forgive us the people of Iraq. We did not want this war as it was the people in power (Bush) who wanted this. One day they will own up to their mistakes when they meet their maker and inshallah, I hope Iraq returns to the beauty it once was
You should go back to pak with this mentality and improve your own country of pak
Both pakistan and Iraq being artifical countries
For the Americans at the time
War is good ( until it comes to there homes )
To be honest, Kuwait belongs Iraq. Only reason they are separate is because of Britain.
aint that the truth
Iraq was created by Britain.
Or at least drawn up by a British woman archaeologist named Gertrude Bell, "based on intelligence she gathered during extensive travels with Bedouin tribes." She also was responsible for the country getting most of its oil fields.
They say that 'artificial flowers lie on the simple yellow-stoned tomb' of this unlikely mother of Iraq, and most Iraqis don't even remember her existence.
@@c.rutherford not true. Iraq had been a thing for like 2 centuries, the land of modern day Iraq that was controlled by the Turks was often refered to as Ottoman Iraq, or Ottoman Mesopotamia, mostly Ottoman Iraq a little bit before the downfall of the Ottomans
Sadam the goat 🗣️
After watching this video this explains a lot about their principle’s in the media they show. As a Slav many of us Slavs Saddam has a special place in our hearts and as someone who has parents from both Russia and Ukraine I’d like to say, Honestly the last ones that should talk about human rights are the U.S. and U.K. It’s quite well known who starts conflicts around the World between nations and profits the most from them. God Bless The Truth. Hopefully our brothers can stop this battle amongst themselves and may on this very Sunday God Bless the soul of Saddam Amen. ☦️✌️
From my point of view Russia is more horrible since they did more bad things to my country.
🤣🤣🤣 tell that to the people that lived under ussr
You think Russia has a good human rights profile? Good God, you must be illiterate.
Just the fact that you put usa and uk on the same level means you don't know sh about it
"russia is clean guys"
tell that to the syrians, georgians, estonians, ukrainians and kazakhs suffering due to russia
Israel did not support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war in fact its the opposite they supported Iran by providing weapons and they actually launched an airstrike attack on iraqs unfinished nuclear reactor on 7 June 1981, which destroyed it, a year after the Iranians had bombed the same reactor. These are important facts about the Israeli-Iran cooperation against Iraq that you completely left out which show a very biased view of events.
"Remember the famous scene from the movie Jarhead?"
-No, because nobody watched that shitty movie.
My grandmother once told me that our family were too scared to speak against Saddam even inside their own homes in case the kids might say something in school. That was the type of leader he was. The Hitler comparison was actually pretty accurate.
Nothing changed, who ever rule Iraq right now is even worse than Saddam
you prolly aren't even iraqui lol
What about your grandfather? Didn't he tell you something too? That, maybe Saddam killed him before your grandmom got pregnant with you?
@@zackamor8043 I’m Iraqi and what toasted donut said is true
@@zackamor8043 ur point ? saddam did horrible crimes on Shias, and other massacres espeically the anfal genocide on kurds. The CIA actually supported Saddam and put him in power during the 1963 coup and 1968 coup where they supported the baathist cuz the previous iraqi government under Karim Qasim nationalized the Oil. It was also the US who gave chemical weapons to Saddam during the Iraq-Iran war.
I actually think that the US did the right thing
No it's not. It's never the "right thing"
@@kucingcat8687 🤡
The guy annexed Kuwait illegally no wonder the entire world declared war
Kuwait stoke Iraqi oil, no wonder Saddam.invaded Kuwait
Gee I wonder if they’re doing it now? Nah, couldn’t be! Trust the media they love you
And they doing it again, guess which country is the next?
But this time things won't go as the Yankees want to trust me
will you also make "how western media pushed for war against putin " xD ?
No cause vladolf putler is the only one at fault for this and will die like trash. That's another story
@@NihilistAlien ain't so sure about that , if nato fulfilled its promises to russia and didn't expand , maybe russia would have been an ally today
i dont see russian cities blowing up
@@solitudesf8111 aged like milk
@@mochalo4912 What promise did NATO make to Russia?
Please respond with evidence.
What fascist Russia says in not evidence.