Comments by "pqsk" (@pqsk) on "Middle East Eye" channel.

I was a soldier for the us army and was part of the illegal invasion of Iraq. I learned a lot about Arabs in that time. Learned how loving and peaceful the non extremists were. I was so shocked. When I returned my father, for some bizarre reason, scheduled me to speak at some church about my time there. I was just told to speak about my experience and so I told the truth. I told them about the civilians living there and how loving and caring they were and in fact was shocked at how devoted to their religion they were. They would pray daily and always prayed for us soldiers too. We would joke with them too, but they never backed down or said anything racist. The moment I said that many Christians in America could learn so much about them about doing the right thing and about how religious they were is when I was asked to stop talking. Actually there were members who started to leave. my father and I got into an argument about it after. I defended my position because I spoke the truth and just couldn’t understand why he wanted me to leave that info out. He knew I wasn’t lying, but he thought it was wrong to talk about Muslims in that speech that I was told to tell of my experience in Iraq. I’ll never forget that time. Beyond the good civilians that we encountered we also did encountered bad actors. I can’t say that I blame them. We illegally invaded and there were war crimes being committed all over the country. It’s either let it happen or join the rebels. I think Al Qaida and later Isis was horrific, but we made them stronger. Shame on us for going in for the oil and to cover up our sending chemical weapons to Iraq in the 80s. Those are at least the 2 reasons I’m aware of why we invaded. There could be even more evil reasons too
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It's funny how so many people claim Israel to be so democratic
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It’s true what she said. The Israeli Army Radio said they would attack targets regardless if it may hit even hostages. Unless they have intel that proves otherwise. But that just means someone is going to make that call. If the intel is kind of good, they could still hit it anyways because in their minds it’s easier. Tell me who is going to police them. I say this a combat veteran who saw this happening within my army. So I know the armies get away with war crimes all the time on both sides.
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Damn, well said ma’am. 🫡🫡🫡
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After 7 oct 2023, the IDF spokesman did say that they would retaliate in the Gaza Strip discriminatory, regardless if the targets were Hamas or not. He explicitly stated that they didn’t care if they hit hostages either
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This guy is careful in what he says. He would be living under a rock if he didn’t know this law given his age. Everyone remembers what happened in Iraq
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Uh, uh, uh, uh, huhh, huhh. Is this guy Butt heads dad? It’s like he doesn’t know how to speak professionally and justifies everything as it’s all set in stone. The other side committed war crimes, so we gotta let them commit war crimes too. That’s not how it works Karen
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The governments of the empires of the US, Russia and Israel are above international law apparently. No accountability.
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Is so sickening how the propaganda machine works. No facts just that they claim that they have some info but no way to prove it. I mean the Israeli government is so in over their heads that they're even trying to convince the international community courts now that they're the good guys while murdering tens of thousands of innocent civilians
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The US government learned nothing from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Damn. Well said sir
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The democratic state of Israel at its finest. Only abides by the UN when it suites them. The civilians on both sides are suffering because of this mentality
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If there is a god, she sure does have a sense of humor. 😹😹😹
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Because they pay her shit tons of $. She literally is a criminal. Don’t know why anyone voted for her, but thankfully she lost and cried wolf of voter fraud
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