Comments by "Bell UH1H Huey" (@belluh-1huey102) on "How Iraqis Got So Good At Smoking American Soldiers" video.

  1. What if the war was built on better justifications and the occupation would be better? Would you still call the invasion illegal or as a success for the US
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  2. @zulu alpha  cite the source of 1 million civilian deaths for me, and the origin of the source destroys your credibility. You also fail to note the sectarian violence going on in Iraq, which is the Shia Sunni divise and the Iraqi Civil War.
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  3. I think this war was for the better for Iraq, although the execution of the operation went bad
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  4. @reject satanism  here's an uncomfortable question. Would everyone will have the same opinion if the invasion was built on better justifications and the occupation wasn't disastrous?
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  5.  @IffyEdem  then explain why violence is down in Iraq and why the Iraqi military can actually do their job
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  6. Majority of Iraqi civilian deaths can be mostly attributed to sectarian violence and racism between which version of Islam was right.
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  7. ​ @SimoN-vf8ps  "I colonized Ukraine in self defense"
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  8. @Elmo  tbh, the US would invade Iraq regardless if we didn't invade it in 2003. The Arab spring would force American troops into countries affected by it. Involvement in Iraq was simply inevitable.
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  9. @Sulla the Hutt  sure, I need em stocks to go up and make sure Russia is kept in 3rd world conditions or have a new president.
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  10.  @sullathehutt7720  lol, the Vietnamese government claimed that 1 million of their soldiers have died lol, how you feelin about invading Afghanistan and losing 2x faster with more casualties?
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  11. @Sulla the Hutt  and where did that 1 million figure come from? An opinion survey, but they are grateful regardless. As the national army of Iraq has the dedication to solve its own problems. They took care of Mosul by themselves mostly, which is a massive victory for them. You think too short. Many people think that way. They just need to get the kick to get over the hump of issues and think long term, to come together, and be something better. Iraq used to be one of the fastest growing countries until Saddam took power. This new Iraq might grow to live the same successes of the 70s.
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  12.  @sullathehutt7720  you're my entertainment of the day, trolls trolling me are very interesting. To see what cope fueled excuses people like you make adds to my knowledge of what to expect. You my friend are a source of information.
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  13.  @travismartinson1813  Prob too much blaming on America for your problems.
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  14. @D San  then explain why Saddam was still having to brutally crush rebellions. He literally built luxury palaces during the sanctions.
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  15.  @IffyEdem  Change takes time, the U.S. is stabilizing with less brutal methods unlike the UK
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  16. Iraqis are horrible at smoking Americans lol
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  17.  @SouIlIl  I mean hey, I just love to challenge other people's hypocrisies and widely disproven claims. The Iraq War has been done already, the only GOOD thing to do right now is is to manage the conflict properly.
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  18. @Sulla the Hutt  Saddam broke his country by military overspending. He turned a prosperous 70s Iraq into a degrading dictatorship 80s Iraq. Nowadays, things are better for Iraq, and the country is rebuilding, and construction sites aren't getting bombed daily like they used to. Like I said, better choices.
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  19. @lol silesia  yet my points are valid. Such as the civilian death claim. Many people bringing this up fail to recognize the sectarian violence in Iraq, and later comments are just repetitive. Not to mention your wording about Russia was off and you didn't provide further context which is why I commented about your statement.
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  20. @Hunner At-touaregi  just curious. I love the hypocrisy being spouted by the people in this comment thread. All these talks about how the U.S. is so bad. Meanwhile, they don't talk about how Saddam operated like Hitler and Stalin. Gassing of kurds akin to the gassing of jews in ww2, Saddam's high levels of paranoia similar to Stalin, both rules harshly, and much more.
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  21. @FS Explorer  uh buddy, you know China invaded Tibet and some other countries in the 20th century. Not to mention using Islamists for extremely cheap labor and utilizing a police state in Tibet, Xinjiang, and more.
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  22. ​ @sullathehutt7720  you mean the ANA couldn't keep the Taliban out lol
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  23.  Zoomer Stasi  Wagner Group is pretty large
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  24.  @sullathehutt7720  Novorossiya after the USSR dissolved voted to stay in Ukraine. Also, Iraqis never beaten the US in the first place? If you think so, name some major battles that the U.S. lost that dictated how the conflict in Iraq turned out.
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  25. @Eric Blust  yo what unit? Also, my friend from the corps went embedded with the Iraqi army and saw an improvement from demoralized a$$hats to a semi competent force in a few tours. He doesn't speak much about Iraq but sees his time there as a learning experience to appreciate life.
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  26. @black etruscan   in this generation, people complain without doing themselves. The coalminers and factory workers in the 1900s would be very ashamed of what the generation has come to be. The education system has its faults, yet I do not see why the education system can not train many new and young Americans to train towards high paying jobs that soon lead to political power.
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  27.  Zoomer Stasi  Wagner got the support of the Russian army
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  28. @Blazin Tiger  uh, you are kind of hypocritical rn as you're changing your point that joinning the military is to fight a war. Many people literally abuse the army for self benefit, like even a 18 year old out of college who just needs to do basic, stay at a desk for 1 year, and they get their Gi bill, or get a good job at Lockheed, look good for community service, etc.. Friends and family in the military, one saw combat, I don't see anything about signing your life away.
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  29.  Zoomer Stasi  yet you need skilled operators because equipment don't mean anything without morale and skill.
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  30.  @RyH-yx4ys  I got a question, proof that your family is in Iraq? I take claims of "being there" with a grain of salt. I found an Iraqi supporting the U.S. but idk if his claims were true of bein in Iraq
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  31. @Ry H  it actually does matter, as if you spin an invasion with solid justifications and evidence, you might get the international community on your side. Yet both wars are built with faulty evidence. Also, watch Kraut's American Entaglement video.
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  32.  @Planet.Xplor3r  Chinese too
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  33. ​@Wickendiana I agree with what you say, but I also think the US intervention in Iraq was for the better. As it taught us a new strategy and put it into practice. Using the people there to fight the problem to build a new sense of nationality against a single cause.
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  34.  @benadrylcumbersplatch6448  Iraq and Afghanistan don't got a McDonalds
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  35.  @rulerofeverything6294  Look at the casualty ratio my man
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  36. ​ @lolsilesia  "Yea better for iraq, been at war for 20 years which in total has lead to hundreds of thousands dying and is now under iranian/russian control" this sentence is worded to seem that Russia and Iran started the war in Iraq and now owns it. This comment lacks context simply, and is way to vague which thus leads to more misinterpretation. I thought your nation's education system would be better telling their kids to have better context. As lack of context in messages like these, leads to unintended and unnecessary hatred. Back on topic, "My main point was that your whole operation in iraq went to the dumpster because in the end it gave more power to your adversaries." this is inherently false as cited by "russia probably have access to a lot of iraqi oil," not to mention the U.S. does not care about OPEC anymore soon, OPEC is becoming more and more irrelevant to the U.S. as the U.S. is making more oil domestically and trades a lot with Canada, why would you think many oil exporting countries in OPEC started to support China? Oh right because they lost their buyer America. Look at how much OPEC countries export to America, I used the U.S. Energy Information Administration for data on U.S. oil imports. "My main point was that your whole operation in iraq went to the dumpster because in the end it gave more power to your adversaries." This my friend is not a good argument as Russia for some reason, has the need to heavily intervene in Syria, not to mention Russia tried to occupy some oil fields in northern Syria and got obliterated. It's on the news during 2018, it's called the Battle of Khasham. U.S. not only occupied the oil fields there, but it also shows the lack of such access to oil fields in the middle east. The Operation in Iraq did not go into a dumpster fire as shown in a graph from 2003 to 2008 of U.S. and civilian casualties in Iraq cited by Statistica's "Number of documented civilian deaths in the Iraq war from 2003 to February 2023," as shown on the graph, number of documented civilian deaths went down significantly from 2007 to 2008. Want to know why there was an increase in the first place? Was because a thing called the Iraqi Civil War happened from 2006-2008. Corroborate the beginning, middle, and end of the Iraqi Civil War to other events and statistics to the Iraq war. Such as the amount of Civilians dying, or the amount of U.S. troops dying. Which leads to my main point, the reason why the war in Iraq went bad INITIALLY from the Iraqi Civil War, and to counter your part, was not from supporting U.S. adversaries. Then afterwards, it got better after the Civil War ended during U.S. occupation, casualties went down for both military and civilians, economy stabilizes, national army is somewhat functioning, and much more. Notice how much combat in Iraq happened compared in 2003-2007, to 2008-2011.
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  37.  @sufyansmits6410  the boot is called learning the history of Iraq.
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  38.  @afriendlymedic1927  suicide isn't the same as Iraqis killing Americans lol, back on topic pal
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  39. @Zeerak 141  suicide is self-inflicted, not by others. So idk what kind of pot you are smoking to get that answer.
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  40.  @lolsilesia  yo what of vodka you drinking man, Russia had nothing to do with Iraq, nor they own any of it.
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  41. @Sulla the Hutt  now, you gotta admit the true criminals are Russia. They be leveling entire city blocks just to kill a squad of insurgents. Meanwhile, US soldiers go door to door most of the time leaving many buildings standing with minor damage.
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  42. ​@h I remember reading a book about the 1st Recon Battalion invading Iraq, saw Iraqis doing celebratory gunfire inside the city after the city was liberated by its own people. The Marines saw that it was celebratory and did not fire a single round.
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  43. @Zeerak 141  the MRSC source developed when the U.S. was fighting both in Iraq and in Afghanistan mainly. Fun fact, the peak amount of troops was in 2008 with 166k, a very small invasion force. It's a wonder how the U.S. was able to invade and occupy this land, considering Russia was struggling a lot in Chechnya, starting 2 wars in a small time frame because the 1st one was a failure. If I took GDR's words at face value, the U.S. is fighting a heavily armed force with significantly fewer numbers than colonization occupation numbers. Combat died down in Iraq in 2008 as it marked the end of the Iraq Civil War. U.S. casualties from 2006 to 2008 during the Iraq Civil War declined heavily, the period where most troops died was from 2003 to 2005, yet the yearly suicide rate has a downward trend from 2005 to 2006 till the Iraqi Civil War happened which reached peak of around 6k in 2008. Only 314 soldiers died in 2008. Peak deathcount in Iraq was 2007, but on average, a lot of troops died in 2003 to 2005, yet the suicide rate went down till after 2006. Source: Statistica, also the source cites other sources. So, why did the suicide rate go down where, on average, a lot of troops were dying? Tours last a year, which leaves post deployment suicide a hard graph to corroborate.
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  44. ​ @zeerak1415  in MRSC's "Study reveals top reason behind soldiers' suicides," stress and chronic sadness are the reason for attempted suicide attempts.
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  45. ​​ @zeerak1415  in the "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Statistics: 2023 Update," by CFAH, number one cause for ptsd is rape, while seeing a friend die is in the bottom 2.
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  46.  @hunnerat-touaregi4439  now are you a pacifist?
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  47.  @GodplayGamerZulul  I'm still here, nobody sent me anything regarding a source
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  48. @D'Artagnan  Honestly, the only reason the U.S. occupation went south was making the Sunnis feal marginalized. It soon led to extremism and sectarian violence amongst the people. Nowadays the U.S. trains foreign armies, which is a better tactic as it one builds credibility, and two, builds nationality which all soon leads to stability.
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  49.  @ericblust5923  Iraqi Army is a competent fighting force. I am using the ANA as a reference to what is competent.
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  50.  @zeerak1415  I asked for vid verification if you lived in Iraq. Also, you brought up about faulty kill counts, so why not go count yourself?
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  51. ​ @Tran5513  Vietnamese person, was your country's invasion of South Vietnam and the usage of blending with civilians right as well?
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  52. @Beert Lont  funny enough I did shower before I made these comments, seriously these comments don't take up a lot of time. These arguments are so same that it's pretty much muscle memory on what to respond withm
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  53.  @yoeyyoey8937  sush, war always changes
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  54.  Zoomer Stasi  ikr
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  55.  @NebulaAccount  I ask, ISIS rule, or the current government protected by Americans? Not to mention big brain Mahdi got seats in the parliament.
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  56. @Sophie Scholl  uh, buddy, if you bothered reading comments, I stated my awareness of its exsistance, but I called it an unreliable estimate. I trust the Iraq War Body Count project.
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  57. @Parsimonious Yes, but when people make like, REALLY horrible statements that on the terms of if it's good for the country or not, I fight it lol. Such as free public healthcare, I ask, are you willing to take the taxes you are going to get from free public healthcare? These are the countries people need to ask, and people need to educate themselves before stating stuff about changing government policies
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  58. @Blazin Tiger  it shouldn't as creates jobs for the army, and second, it's not like the army has a hard time recruiting, lol. Also, many veterans these days haven't seen combat.
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  59.  @RyH-yx4ys  I got a claim, Iraqis destroyed Iraq
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  60. Ok guys I ask, would we be the same if the US invasion was built on better justifications and if the occupation went better? Would we see the U.S. in a better light if the US if the occupation didn't go disastrously?
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  61. @zulu alpha  the U.S. didn't fund terrorists intentionally. It's already a well-known fact that AL Queda siphoned supplies from the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War. I would also think that you call the Taliban a terror group, which is what most people think they are even though they are not. Not to mention this video isn't unique, other larger channels pushed the same narrative. This channel is just like the many other channels that discuss American conflicts in a bad light. It's not like Saddam did anything bad.
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  62. @Los Lobos  we would believe you if you had a confirmed service record that me and Zulu can find. I got my buddy's gopro footage uploaded, yet his mic got busted before deployment.
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  63.  @-_-----  2003, largest protest in recorded history occurred
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  64.  @shmurdrr9234  recruiters are simply just busy
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  65.  @SecuR0M  and those who did 9/11 fled into Afghanistan pretty much. The U.S. invaded Iraq on the basis of humanitarian rights and wmds mostly, although it did house a little bit of AL Queda that wasn't liked by saddam.
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  66.  @IffyEdem  your logic doesn't make any sense and sounds incoherent as hell
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  67.  @davidmartinez688  you pacifist?
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  68. @Walter White Jr the 4th  maybe because the Iraqi insurgency often hid in civilian populations? Dude, this is insurgency 101, do urban warfare, nerf U.S. airstrikes because they will be forced to go door to door as they want the foundations to stand. Iraq Body Count project data shows that the type of attack that resulted in the most civilian deaths was execution after abduction or capture. These accounted for 33% of civilian deaths and were overwhelmingly carried out by unknown actors including insurgents, sectarian militias and criminals. 29% of these deaths involved torture. The following most common causes of death were small arms gunfire at 20%, suicide bombs at 14%, vehicle bombs at 9%, roadside bombs at 5%, and air attacks at 5%.
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  69. @David Martinez  As an FYI, that 1 million figure has been proven very flawed. Look at their questions, their questions are very open to interpretation by the person doing the survey. Also, guess where them Saudi terrorists boss went? Not to mention, Jihads exsist.
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  70.  @hunnerat-touaregi4439  I hold that very true
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  71. @Sulla the Hutt  man I love Mahdi he's such a great leader and politicia . Much better than Saddam and them caliphate leaders.
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  72. ​@Zeerak 141 uh that's partially true, but suicide among veterans is mostly caused by divorce. PTSD
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  73.  @rejectsatanism4617  The wiki source states numbers ranging from 200k to 500k with majority of the civilians dying to sectarian violence. That one million figure comes from an opinion based organization with many, many flaws. Go read "Conflict Deaths in Iraq: A Methodological Critique of the ORB Survey Estimate. "Uh yeah people would probably be okay with it if it didn’t destroy the country." Man, I think the word "destroy the country" is a significant overstatement when you compare the damage being dished out by Russia right now.
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  74.  @ericblust5923  who was it? May all the survivors live and recover.
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  75.  @ericblust5923  The world of journalism is risky business, but yours as well
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  76.  @zeerak1415  It does have an effect, yet PTSD rates are down, and veteran suicide is caused by stress usually.
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  77.  @zeerak1415  Also uh, if they stop counting, then explain how morale is being kept during 2003-2007. Morale is very important, if your morale is horrible you become the ANA, if it's good, you become the Iraqi National Army and Ukraine.
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  78.  @zeerak1415  then why are there no MIA complaints? Lol, plus the Iraqi Civil War of 2006 ended in 2008.
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  79.  @zeerak1415  arr you gonna be like the oryx blog and count each individual kill for me with a link to the footage? Along with the dates of each kill.
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  80.  @zeerak1415  cap that you live there, ima need some video verification, mind doing so?
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  81. @Zeerak 141  doxing would be DOB, name. And exact address, I'm just asking for country. How many people live in Pakistan?
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  82. There is no right and wrong in war, just better choices.
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