Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "Iraq 20 years later: 3 vets reflect on the war they fought | Nightline" video.

The vast majority of innocent people were killed by the side you were rooting for. I've posted this statistic so many times youtube has started auto-blocking me. 2006 and 2007 were the bloodiest years for Iraq, and 2008 saw a drastic reduction in civilian bloodshed because: 1) The Anbar Awakening, when a large number of insurgents switched sides and started fighting for the US after seeing how bad things had become in the Sunni Trianlge, a place where the insurgents had de facto won 2) Muqtada Al-Sadr's cease fire order. Sadr was the main Shia insurgent warlord in Iraq 3) The troop surge.
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An April 2004 showed Iraqis by a margin of more than 2 to 1 believed the invasion was "worth it" for overthrowing Saddam, and only 17% of them approved of attacks on coalition forces. Sorry to rain on your hate parade but those "heroes" didn't represent the Iraqi people.
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@ninettam8372 Yes, the silence is appalling. Namely we're silent as the biggest blood libel in all of human history is put upon our country and these soldiers people here claim to care about are being blamed for the murders committed by the people they were fighting. Anyone who was following the war closely when it was actually happening knows the overwhelming majority if innocent Iraqis were killed by insurgents/terrorists/militia, and the US military was there to stem the tide. We failed epically in 2006 and 2007, succeeded in 2008 because 1) the troop surge 2) Muqtada Al-Sadr's cease fire 3) the Anbar Awakening, but the damage was done. Now the blood is being washed off the hands of the people who actually fired mortars into busy public streets and carbombed markets and history is being rewritten to paint the Americans are murderers and the insurgents as people just defending their country against invaders.
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I think I'm going to be sick! 7/8 civilians in Iraq were killed by insurgent factions! In the place where the insurgents defacto won, called the Sunni Triangle, things got so bad half of them switched sides and joined the US forces in what was called The Anbar Awakening! The remainder stayed behind and formed ISIS!
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The Iraq War was a horrible mistake, but never, never forget who took the vast majority of innocent life in that country: "In total, over 150,000 people have been killed and 80 percent of them – more than 122,000 – were civilians, said the IBC. [...] According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, U.S. and Coalition forces had killed at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians in the Iraq War, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists." 13,807 vs 122,000. It was the people these veterans were there to kill and capture.
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@saadx7724 The US soldiers were trying to stem the tide of violence in the country. The vast majority of Iraqi civilians were killed by insurgents/militia/terrorists and everyone who was following the war closely knows this.
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I will never, ever, ever cease to be floored by the ignorance and lack of patriotism from my country men. Everybody who followed the war closely knows the vast majority of innocent Iraqis were killed by the people these soldiers were there to kill and capture. Every day there would be a report of a suicide bombing, car bombing, roadside bombs, etc. killing innocent Iraqi civilians. The murder of hundreds of thousands of people by the likes of the Mahdi Army, and the Islamic State of Iraq (percusors to ISIS), is being wiped off their hands and put upon our countrymen and we have nothing to say but "🤷‍♂ don't blame their soldiers, they were young and niave." NO, stop letting people who hate you rewrite history and set the record straight. Our soldiers went their to stem the tide of violence in Iraq. 2006 and 2007 were the bloodiest years for Iraqi civilians by a wide margin, and that bloodshed only ended because the main Shia warlord (Muqtada Al-Sadr) declared a cease fire, and half of the Sunni insurgents switched sides and started working with the US in what was called the Anbar Awakening. Our men went over there to fight someone of the most evil people in human history. People who are being glorified in these very comments. They got the better of us for a long time. That's why so many innocent people died. You can't tell me you really care about these vets, or truth, or human life until you stand up to this hideous slander.
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@saadx7724 The US toppled Saddam, which the vast majority of Iraqis approved of according to an April 2004 poll. It turns out it was a mistake, but basically you are saying we should know better than the Iraqis what's best for Iraq, which is ironic because you say we have a colonialist mindset. From then on we tried to stem the tide of terrorism (usually called "sectarian violence"). So the soldiers that went there in 2003 gave the Iraqis what they wanted, those who came later tried to stem the tide of terrorism. So what crime did either group commit?
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@saadx7724 "In total, over 150,000 people have been killed and 80 percent of them – more than 122,000 – were civilians, said the IBC. [...] According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, U.S. and Coalition forces had killed at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians in the Iraq War, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists." Read it and weep, hate lover.
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@tabo01 Yes, the Iraqis changed their tune about the invasion, but only because the insurgent factions you were rooting for did so much damage to their country in 2006 - 2007. Also Gallup is the same company that reported 90% of Crimeans supported being annexed by Russia, so don't you dare tell me they have a pro-American bias. Do you just believe whatever helps you hold onto hate?
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An April 2004 showed Iraqis believed overthrowing Saddam Hussein was "worth it" by a margin of a more than 2 to 1. You hate him for not knowing what was better for Iraq than the Iraqis themselves, and yet you say we're the ones with a colonialist mindset.
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@dustspark_ They didn't ask for our help because they couldn't. An unconscious man lying on the ground bleeding out doesn't ask for help either, does that mean you shouldn't do anything? And colonialism? Do you ever even think about what this word means before you use it? It's hard to know where to start about how wrongly you are using that word. Giving people an independent democracy is not colonialism. When Ghandi achieved that for India, it was called anti-colonialism. Foreign intervention is not colonialism. The US achieved its freedom thanks to interventionism on the part of France and Spain. You are the same people who claim the US put Saddam in power (a BS charge, the CIA simply trained him to fight in a coup decades before he became Iraq's dictator, but still). If that's the case, the Iraq War was the polar opposite of colonialism, removing a foreigner imposed leader and letting people of a country control their own future.
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@dustspark_ Germany, Japan, Italy, Grenada, and Panama aren't independent democracies? Again, refer to the Gallup poll I posted. They did indeed want our help.
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@dustspark_ Bringing up where America is hated is pretty pointless because according to the latest research, Vietnam is the most pro-American country on Earth. Oh, and Japan is number 11. And Western Europeans just love us or hate us based on whether or not we have a Republican in office. From 2020 to 2021, the Germans who rated America favorably went from 26% to 59%.
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It was the people you were rooting for who killed the vast majority of Iraqis, and the US soldiers were trying to stem the tide.
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@kimr3226 The overwhelming majority of Iraqi civilians, about 7/8 were killed by "insurgents, terrorists, and militia" according to Iraq Body Count's John Sloboda. These were the very people these vets went to stop and you wanted our government to appease and hand Iraq over to.
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@kimr3226 How do you sleep at night knowing you are engaging in the biggest blood libel in human history, washing blood off the hands of the likes of the Mahdi Army and the Islamic State of Iraq (precursors to ISIS), and putting it upon your own countrymen? It was people like you that motivated insurgents to wreak so much senseless carnage in Iraq, because they knew the world would blame their Western enemies. How else do you explain such bizarre events as the July Soccer Bombings, which seemed to target no one in particular but just kill as many Iraqis as possible?
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@ninettam8372 Thank you, I agree the Iraq was as a huge MISTAKE that should be remembered. But most of people in the comments are gorging themselves on hate and writhing in anti-American ectstacy. Bush assumed the Iraqi people would be better off without the most brutal dictator of the 21st century ruling over their lives and instead being in control of their own future. Everyone knows that was a perfectly reasonable assumption, even if it was the wrong one.
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@secrets.295 🤮 You either lack genuine experience, or genuine sympathy and honesty, because the vast majority of them were killed by the insurgents, militia, and terrorists US forces were there to kill and capture. I've posted statistics on this so many times youtube has started auto-blocking me.
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Being cynical is fashionable and makes you sound smart, but that doesn't mean its logical. The only people who profit from wars are the military industrial complex. Everyone else loses profits, because its hard to do business in a country where things are blowing up. Further, it's politicians, not corporations, that decide when we go to war. Do you really think any politician, no matter how ruthlessly self-interested, would think it was a good election strategy to launch a failed war in hopes of slightly increasing his campaign donations from the MIC? I know you don't.
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America soldiers and Iraqi civilians were largely killed by the same people: the Mahdi Army, the Islamic State of Iraq (precursors to ISIS), etc.
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"In total, over 150,000 people have been killed and 80 percent of them – more than 122,000 – were civilians, said the IBC. [...] According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, U.S. and Coalition forces had killed at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians in the Iraq War, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists." The side you were rooting for killed the vast majority of those people and they were trying to stop them.
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@secrets.295 "In total, over 150,000 people have been killed and 80 percent of them – more than 122,000 – were civilians, said the IBC. [...] According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, U.S. and Coalition forces had killed at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians in the Iraq War, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists."
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@alexandrasymeon5893 Sorry to rain on your hate parade, but 80% of civilians in Afghanistan were killed by the Taliban according to the UN, the same people we were fighting to keep out of power.
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Even you have no idea what you mean when you say we stole oil
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An April 2004 poll showed Iraqis believed overthrowing Saddam Hussein was "worth it" by a margin of more than 2 to 1. You hate us for not knowing what was better for your country than you did.
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Thank you, one of you is worth 100 of the traitorous Americans in these comments glorifying the insurgents that terrorized your country. Unlike everyone posting crocodile tears about the suffering of the Iraqis during the war, I was following the war closely. I saw the horrors the Mahdi Army and Islamic State of Iraq (precursors to ISIS) did to your people, and modern day Americans are so ruthlessly unpatriotic they stand by and let history be rewritten (if not actively participate in the process) so as to pin these murders on our own soldier.
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The vast majority of civilians in Iraq were killed by the side you were rooting for. I've posted this statistic so many times youtube has started auto-blocking me.
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🤮 "In total, over 150,000 people have been killed and 80 percent of them – more than 122,000 – were civilians, said the IBC. [...] According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, U.S. and Coalition forces had killed at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians in the Iraq War, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists." The insurgents were the ones wracking up the civilian body count! In fact, in the places where the insurgents defacto won, called The Sunni Triangle, it got so bad that many of them switched sides and started fighting for the US in what was called The Anbar Awakening!
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@tabo01 We're getting off topic. OP is glorifying the insurgents as people just defending their country. That is one of the most disgusting things I've ever read. We're without exaggeration witnessing the biggest blood libel in human history, taking hundreds of thousands murdered by the likes of the Mahdi Army and the Islamic State of Iraq (precursors to ISIS) and placing them on the hands of our own country. The insurgency was so incredibly evil that in the area they defacto won (called the Sunni Triangle), half of them switched sides and started fighing for the US in what was called the Anbar Awakening. That's why Iraq became relatively stabilized in 2008. That and Muqtada Al-Sadr's cease fire.
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No, it's just when we fight "the right war" it's instantly forgotten by history. The people of Kuwait, South Korea, Grenada, and Panama are extremely grateful for US intervention in their country.
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@cocamilo22 "only 1 thing is sure, foreigner power intervention is always bad." Then what the hell did your original comment mean? You said "US have the greatest army, but always send them fighting in the wrong war...", so what are "the right wars"?
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The vast majority of innocent people in Iraq were killed by the insurgents/militia/terrorists these marines were there to kill and capture. Anyone who followed the war closely knows this.
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Yet on this day 15 years ago a double suicide bombing happened in Baghdad, killing 15 people, mostly civilians. Funny how that works. Not sure what you call the carbombings, gun massacres, and suicide bombings that occurred in Iraq almost every day if the only terrorists in Iraq were Americans.
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@tundrawomansays694 Right, it's not like anyone could think overthrowing the most brutal dictator of the 21st century so people could elect their own government or stopping the precursors of ISIS from car bombing public markets in Iraq was actually a noble cause. It's not like anyone could have joined out of patriotism after the Afghan War, a war which 85% of Americans approved of. They must have been doing it for the money.
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The overwhelming majority of innocent people in Iraq were killed by insurgents, militia, and terrorists, the people those marines were there to kill and capture.
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it was the side you were rooting for who killed the vast majority of Iraqi civilians and those marines who were trying to stem the tide. I've posted this statistic so many times youtube has started auto blocking me.
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@mthokozisimpanza34 There's a comment here with over 100 likes glorifying the insurgents so forgive me for assuming so.
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7/8 Iraqi civilians were killed by insurgents/militia/terrorists, the people these vets were there to kill and capture.
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It was the insurgents you were rooting for who killed the vast majority of civilians. The US soldiers were trying to stem the tide.
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That's completely factophobic. Iraqi protestors stormed parliament less than a year ago, would ANYBODY have been willing to do something like that under Saddam?
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"In total, over 150,000 people have been killed and 80 percent of them – more than 122,000 – were civilians, said the IBC. [...] According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, U.S. and Coalition forces had killed at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians in the Iraq War, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists."
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 @thegreatmedevil6962 That one million number is a high end ESTIMATE. This is an assessment of deaths which were actually on RECORD.
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Actually they did, to the best of their ability. Anyone who was following the war closely knows: 1) the vast majority of Iraqi women and children were killed by militia/terrorists/insurgents, the people US forces were there to kill and capture 2) when the US conducted major offensives, like Operation Arrowhead Ripper and Operation Cavalry Charge, the number of Iraqi civilian deaths would plummet for about two weeks, as the insurgents were forced to retreat and regroup. 3) The bloodiest year for Iraqi civilians was 2006 and 2007. Things drastically improved in 2008 because 1) many insurgents switched sides and started fighting for the US in what was called the Anbar Awakening. 2) Muqtada Al-Sadr, the main Shi'ite insurgent warlord, declared a cease fire 3) the troop surge. If Americans had stayed in the oil fields we may have never lost a single soldier. But we went into the cities to root out the people who were car bombing public markets and firing mortars into busy streets.
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@felizamarro1508 The vast majority of Iraqis were killed by the insurgents you were rooting for, while the US was trying to kill and capture them, so God should be protecting both.
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