Truth, War and Consequences (full documentary) | FRONTLINE – Blog

Christopher Dennis
The title should be Liars, Thieves and War.
Sam Blackwell
I’d take a Frontline Documentary over a Hollywood Blockbuster anytime
Conner Kelly
There’s something just as barbaric crushing that guys taxi with a 20 ton tank as the human carnage we typically picture. All over 80 bucks worth of wood, just to get by. That scene to me is really emblematic of our time in the middle east: punishing the inhabitants with an oil-fueled, raging overkill, with no regard for human dignity
James Huffer-Cole
US soldiers terrorizing locals and laughing about it. What a disgrace.
red sparrow
Just a correction. It’s not the “Iraq war”, it’s the “Invasion of Iraq”.
jim j
This was not a war. It was more like a Turkey shoot or fish in a barrel. This was a criminal invasion.
truth & facts
Legend says bush is still trying to find Weapons of mass destruction
Craig Joyner
Frontline does great documentaries. We never should have been in Afghanistan in the first place.
Mike Fleming
Generals tell their men to win the hearts and minds of the people.Soldiers,naw let’s run over this guy’s car for grabbing a little bit of wood.
Matthew Roberts
None of the documentaries of this type is 100% perfect, but Frontline comes closest to perfection. Martin Smith is my top favorite warzone correspondent and interviewer; he goes where danger lurks. I believe, all in all, Frontline is the best documentary series of all of them. Thumbs up. Subscribed. Notifications enabled. Even so, it sometimes, rarely, promulgates false information. So… Everyone watching should be careful. Everyone listening should check for the facts.
Skyler Burgess
After watching Frontline’s 4 part docu-series on the ‘08 economic collapse last weekend as the collapse of the Afghan government was happening live (2021), I think I might need a week or two before I can bare to watch this one. I was in middle school and high school when all this was going on so I didn’t fully comprehend the gravity of what was happening. Looking at these major historical moments from 1998-2012 as a full grown adult has ultimately made me feel disgusted and saddened. I cannot express enough how grateful I am that we have this type of journalism available to us. I hope and pray that we never repeat these mistakes. I truly want better for my children.
Rock N' Roll True Stories
superb documentary hope you guys drop more of your classic stuff.
lola odunsi
The lesson here is stay out of other. Countries business Let the people solve their own problems their own way Democracy is not for everyone
Usagi393
“Stealing is wrong, but you can’t understand me, so I’m going to destroy your car.” They may not understand you, but they’re going to understand how to hate now
Bigmike Stewy
To watch soldiers LAUGH while literally destroying the lives of people,one can see one of the reasons why folks dislike America so much…. Imagine an IRAQI adult watching this who was a child back then
Alex Charlier
For anyone thinking of a Frontline Doc that isn’t on their YouTube, they have every single frontline episode on their website as well for free. The player lets you air cast to the tv also
Dexter Reid
When you have no idea as who the enemy is, you can’t win.
Durgenheim
The Bush administration ignored their own intelligence community, as well as experts on reconstruction, economics, insurgency, and Middle Eastern/Iraqi culture & history, and we really wonder why we got the results that we did? It’s difficult to believe this could have been more of a disaster. Truly a display in sheer incompetence.
G S
Folks is laughing at ya – supremely played by our “leaders” in a game that one knew they were in. Very sad and soon to be repeated (again), what will they use to justify the next one, ET’s?
Daniel Jasso
That man scooping up the blood of a dead Iraqi screaming with so much ire and so much pain to the point that he ripped his shirt off, shocked me so much. I can’t imagine the pain and frustration that he felt. No wonder why suicide bombers came about; the US destroyed everything they had and killed their fellow brothers and sisters with impunity.
Aswad Malik
There is so much to be learned from this on so many levels.
Amoroso Gombe
The American GI crushing the taxi with his tank is the perfect analogy for the thoughtlessness of US foreign policy. No wonder it’s all a mess.
Arif Patel
“That’s what you get when you loot” – imagine what this guys face when he saw US major cities and business looted by own citizens 🤣
Jason Keenan
I just don’t understand how a few well-placed, ill-intentioned people can completely subvert the world’s foremost intelligence agencies. Mixing politics with intelligence undermines everything.
Dany Cesc
This war was a total failure from top to bottom, from experience I can tell you the Army was run worse than your local 99 cent store. People in key positions had no idea who they were dealing with, how to proceed with the people they were trying to keep safe??? and this isn’t something only unique to Iraq, I dare you to go to any of our bases overseas and ask the locals, the students how the U.S. military personnel behave, we need more training for our joes, and those in charge need more resources and we need real leaders, not just a quick promotion to cause you happened to be there or can do push ups.
inmykitchen
Why smash the mans car.. that’s stupid.. we had no plan for those ppl.
HeatherBoo916
I’ve seen this one before. Worth watching again. All Frontline documentaries are.
Zero Dayz
Let’s gooo Frontline. Can’t wait for it to start.
tracy the jazz lifer
Taxi driver picks up customer with pieces of wood as baggage. Soldiers think it’s justice to crush and destroy the taxi cab. The poor taxi driver lost his only form of income. That is just wrong. This a war crime and they should be held accountable. Courts Marshall for every soldier that participated.
Justin Santo
Martin Smith is such a fantastic journalist. 👏
K Bone
Thank you, PBS Frontline team, for putting together such quality productions packed full of facts and insights and presented in a narrative that is comprehensible. 🙏🏽
Johnny Knuckles
But yet Bush says, he has no regrets as President. Hundreds of thousands Dead and Injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
allies Team C
One of the lessons that could be learned from war is not to trust the ego fear’s perceptions. This would save America billions which are needed to help seniors and bridges at home in US
Mark White
Chalabi was a complete lyar who had designs on power for himself a burgeoning demogauge himself.
Steven Gill
Holy kitty cats, seeing this 17 years later is…wow, I don’t have the words…sobering? Heartbreaking? Shocking? Certainly saddening…..
Tokollo Damons
I see what you done here Frontline, but that doesn’t blemish the absolute high quality and highly respected documentary work that you produce, excellent work guys
Boris
Should have never invaded Iraq in the first place
Dave Hebert
Wars are ALWAYS about money. Those that have the gold make the rules. Follow the money. End of documentary.
R.E.2
@28:00 makes me ashamed to be an American. I hope those soldiers look back on this and see how disproportionate their punishment was. No wonder people hate Americans when dolts like those represent us.
ijvo1951
“All Governments Lie” I.F. Stone – This is why a Free Press is so important to The People.
*MisS* *TriNiDaD*
Thank you for this content Frontline Staff!!! Very well put together and narrated. 💯 Very informative.
researcher truma
This documentary leads me to believe that the problems today in the Middle East is still tied to what happened in the early 2000’s and allot by what America did in Iraq!
Winters Mill
This is the best show out there.
SCHOOLTHEWORLD
They love to use FEAR against the people & their own benefits !!
guitargnar
Frontline over here killing it with the daily drops
Aaron Calderon
Got my popcorn ready! Love you FRONTLINE!
Qarami Hassan
Anyone who has the power 2 make u believe absurdities has the power 2 make u commit injustices. -Voltaire. Greetings from Kenya 🇰🇪. Let’s pray for peace ✌️
Doug B
Americans must not risk war (or the democratic process) for “faith-based intelligence with cherry-picked evidence”. Details matter!
henry malcom
In whoes museum is the stolen babylonian artifacts, in whoes banks are those untold billions of Iraqi dollars of Saadam’s being held? America did more looting of Iraq they and group of Iraqi people.
TheRadioSquare
Those absolute degenerates “dispensing justice” for looting should’ve been the ones under a tank. Subhumans.
Hristina Trajkovska Trajkovska
These people should be prosecuted and jailed for the rest of their life, because they commit crimes against humanity.
Nes
I wish we had this quality here in AUS Thank you frontline 🙏
New Vibes
With great power comes greater responsibility. Note to all governments
Marlene Mary Christine Knowles
Very thorough and truthful broadcasting!!
Santiago Katzenstein
Well, clearly a much needed and informative documentary. The multiplicity of forces in action during the pre invasion environment makes it a real challenge to understand the whole picture, yet its worth it.
Deep Blue Azure
Irony, PBS, a government funded news agency did a better job at investigating the US govt for its blunders in Iraq and Afghanistan than a majority of private news corporations
Paul Makinson
Some CIA agents found evidence, some said there was none. The latter had their careers ended or their cover blown (Plame affair). If you don’t like what the messenger is saying, shoot him.
Plantogenet ID
Destabilizing a region is never a good idea.
Marmitaa
11:20 His expressions is making me feel more then just rage. I would take his life with my bare hands if i had the chance.
Ragna Kok
I’m Iraqi-Assyrian and man all this hits home. I hope my country will come to know peace but tbh it’s been a battlefield for thousands of years it just sucks that there’s no end in sight.
george ikinya
How do you expect a clean ,well kept and safe city streets after the lengthy relentless pummeling with missiles?
Picasso M
Man these Frontline Documentaries are very good. I’m totally hooked on them.
Black MediaWiki
This week has been a frontline week with uploads and more uploads. Love it, keep it coming.
Justin Stoll
Watching this in 2004 after the chaotic state of Iraq then was sobering. Watch this in 2021 is just nuts. How could the policy makers been so naive and out of touch is just crazy.
Ali Ali
8:10 No wonder why people hate us and the military in general
kj
This war was started by radicals in the U.S. and ended by radicals in Afghanistan.
 
Thank you, Frontline. Outstanding.
Osunga Okello
Of course everybody knew. “Saddam Hussein” is like “Open Sesame” , the sweetest word any war monger ever heard.
JOHN A. BARDELLI
Indeed, Samuel!!! And Thank Goodness for YouTube!!! Television has been taken over by the poisonous hypnotic pharmaceutical companies. Thank you Frontline for the amazing documentaries being continually provided! 🙏🙏🙏
Rick Feenstra [Staff]
Another notable doc from Frontline. Should be Required Viewing several times a year at the US Pentagon, State, and Defence. How else can US avoid making bad policy decisions?
Brian Salomon
Contractors and soldiers stealing everything and they destroy a citizen’s car for some wood?
Mackenzie Dog
I was with my father, he described everything that bush days later said “why didn’t we know?”
Aswad Malik
There is so much to be learned from this on so many levels.
Jean-Claude Allard
“Police are trained to serve and protect” not in America they aren’t
Doug Mitchell
Hands down one of THE best doc series extant! Now the grandkids watch Frontline at grandpa’s house.
Donna Crandall
Love Frontline, they actually report the truth 💯
Rocco Rubino
Dubya has a lot of blood on his hands
William Bergamo
In January 2012, a French intelligence official stated that he believed Chalabi to be “acting on behalf of Iran”.
Theo E. Korthals Altes
To be recommended, great work.
Simphiwe Twala
Just rolled my joint and watching y favorite.. Frontline the ultimate
fiesty gemini
well the war looked like a good old fashion oil grab. and a way for those to profit off war, as some big companies did. never did see these WMD.
Gani Villaluna
Martin: “You call it an experiment.” Makiya: “Yes, and I’m not ashame of calling it that.” Damn! What a costly and deadly experiment you got there in Iraq!
REBS76
7:22 the solution to looting is to crush the car of the looters. Really now?
uAlrdyKnoWaItIz
“We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” – you go to admit that’s a killer line… Bush butchered phrase in his speech
SKILLY
I’ve heard that all the disastrous moves like de-bath CPA1/2 came from chalabi but didn’t know much about him or this group… he’s a horrible liar, I wasn’t expecting such an obvious hack.
James W. Blatch
is frontline PBS the best for doing this for us? Yes or Yes – Dillon
Tenaiji1413
I hope for the U.S. citizens who view these wars waged in the middle east or any region as unnecessary all the best; but I have a feeling that they might go through an apocalypse of the same magnitude of all these wars combined someday, just by supplications of the people whose life and security was ruined.
Darin Hill
If the statement “hindsight is 20/20” was ever applied, this is a case study in the concept.
Renee Chen
Such horror the government of a so-called country of freedom has created.
Merry Taheri
Thank you for this documentary! Now let’s please work on one for Afghanistan so the world will know the truth!
Alimamul Ma3sum
Ahmed chalabi was a dirty conman who knew exactly what the Bush administration wanted to believe and fed them precisely the false info they were craving for! Chalabi did that in the hope of ruling Iraq, but the US didn’t appoint him after taking over the country because they realized he was a conman!! Slow burn podcast has a great take on the Iraq War and it’s very detailed.
Maxwell McCloud
“And were we told the truth?” 😂😂😂😂
altgenesis
Itaq was ok before the US decided Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. It was the sanctions imposed on a lie that destroyed Iraq, not the Bath Party.
Parabellum 1988
That’s how you win hearts by driving over their cars with a tank 🤣
Lee Dunavan
The biggest question is, will anyone ever speak of the weapons we gave and sold to them, which is true. And they somehow disappeared without a trace…..? 🤔
Javlon Juraev
So, basically, one Iraqi ambitious man used US to get rid of his political opponent.
Mar Oo
FPS documentaries never failed to amazed us. Thanks the team.
Santana
Amazing job by Frontline as usual! In regards to this doc. Wow its crazy watching and thinking “these people are making the worst arguments for going to war, who would believe this?” how did they get THIS far starting like that… Americas Foreign Policy needs to be seriously readdressed.
bobcharlotte
“Truth, War and Consequences” or as Bush hears it “What, War and What?”
Masood Ibrahim
Frontline making the best documentaries in the industry!!!! Love love love them all!
oldsledpurgatory
All hail Will Lyman the G.O.A.T.
True Tech
Please be safe, war$ and pandemics never really produce happy happy afterlives, even if the media and policians and the pope say give the sociopaths a renewal to a 2000 year old hall pa$. ☝️
Ksai4u
Just a quick view i thought, now I ordered 🍕 and opened this masterpiece on the big screen.
Nabeel Ahmed Khan
Well, USA and NATO fought for years and years without any ‘finish game’. A nonsense war started by a crazy warmonger. USA needs a huge introspection at every level.
BS1
I’ll remember September 11 with the truth.
K Dot chess champ
At the end of the day it comes down to control over another, power, greed an resources.
Bo Rasta
Shit is comical looking back on it. Sad 🇺🇸 soldiers lost there lives for nothing it seems. Not good.
lara2000
I hope those pathetic excuses of a man,who was playing army are held accountable for smashing that guy’s car .It’s appalling to witness American GI’s act that way toward a civilian father and son. They are representing the United States of America and we are supposed to be better than that ,but unfortunately were not .. personally I do feel those soldiers should be dishonorably discharged!
COcollectionToys
8:06 = that why you fight to keep the Taliban to replace the Taliban .
Kelly Evans
When i saw the car being smashed to stop looting I thought well that just made the people more desparate……wtf
Matthew 26:52 KJV
Cheney played Bush like a violin. Watching this Frontline documentary, it’s obvious that the US put the cart before the horse.
Everest Stevens
I wonder why everyone who’s interviewed never want to give a direct answer
Murali Viswanathan
History….repeats itself for those who refuse to learn from it.
Mariano
… individuals personal interests, manipulating institutions 42:48 would result in nuclei of concerns ?
gladiatorxxx
What a shame on the lies told by the US.
whyputaname
Hey Dubya and Republicons where are those WMD’S.. Is Dubya still looking for them.. Maybe they are still under his desk..
RM FeedUp
All the Iraq’s involved in this war, in whatever capacity, I hope they are happy and can sleep better in their conformable homes in US. They fabricated stories to help destroy their own people and left their country poor for the generations to come. I truly hope they are sleeping better now. I wonder if the people in Iraq wish they had Saddam today instead.
gayle mc
Our government screwed us with lies when we were most vulnerable.
 
Kenai Dog
They can sell their oil and rebuild. Oil was the only reason we were there in the first place. Everything else is just a front.
Jagpal Singh
Thank you for such an informative documentary. I think the reasons for ignoring their own intelligence reports, was the oil and resources which were to be handed over to the friends and lobbyists. Your documentary raised faith in conspiracy theories.
James Edwards
@ 4:27 did you call that stealing? That’s called being resourceful.
D Allen
37:10 Kanan later transitioned to a career as a James Taylor impersonator.
Tswjnreeg Thoj
Intelligence information is no good if the intelligence reader is not intelligent. Intelligence information is no good if it is cooked intelligence information.
Vitaly Golubchik
“We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal, We Kill”
Ozymandias
I’m a Stan for frontline
R C
44:27, Liberation = we just want your oil !
M johnston
No mention at the beginning about the years of extreme crippling US sanctions on Iraq for years before. Dishonest documentary.
Geoff Dein
The taxi driver was trying to quadruple his wealth or feed his family?
The Oculist
Ok that part with the soldiers shooting that dudes car and then destroying it with a tank just because they stole wood supposedly has to be a set up for the cameras… Everybody’s funny huh pbs?
Anonymous
07:20 We certainly didn’t send our best and brightest.
Roman
Frontline is rewriting history…. our elites invaded a country illegally for oil and its geopolitical importance…
Sal Russo
98 out of 100 senators voted for war…why? For billions in government $ contracts they all achieved there objectives….It was never about freedom only free $. The military industrial complex is alive and well
KINGS GUARDS
Frontline ❤️ the best in my opinion.
CCSecretWealth
Frontline deserves an award for this suberby documentary
DiabolicDoug
“The military is trained to kill and break things, the police are trained to serve and protect” I would have to disagree and say that the police also kill and break things.
Doc Martin
Imagine if Gore won.
Unknown User
Really digging into the old ones
Chuenwei Hsu
The ideology of a few people can cause so much damage to people who just want to live simple life.
Emmett Jones
Collin Powell blew his reputation and legacy with the weapons of mass destruction lie, he should have resigned, instead of giving a speech he knew wasn’t true.
Friday with Mateo Bonus
James Conway is one of the few good ones … miss working for that guy!
Number Stations Cartoon
Looking forward to this one! And getting yelled at by commenters who hate Frontline. Eyeroll in advance to them.
The Oculist
After all this they keep focusing on looting lol
The Traveler Wonderful world
I dropped out of school, so that I can focus on Frontline documentary full time 😁😁
q n
The 20-year War Racket worked, Mission Accomplished, said GW Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.
DominatorHDX
If they only knew… The US officials, policy makers and decision makers from that time should be held accauntable for one of the biggest clusterf**ks of the century.
Robert Britt
Imagine a failed state that can’t keep lights on or put out wildfires stomping around the world squandering resources to push their agenda of idiocy. You laugh or you cry.
Asher Solomon
Thank you for getting the colored video of this uploaded
James Estelle
23:53 – See codename “Curveball” and crude diagram of a converted bus/truck made into a chemical(?) weapons lab.
Chelsey Benson
Very interested specifically now that we are about to see what is Joe next move after withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Sam J.
Where’s the mention of the interest of the American Public?!?!?! This is what politics and a government removed from the people get us
Dr Eyobel Yemanebirhan
Machiavelli did say, “Men rise from one ambition to another; first they seek to secure themselves against attack, then they attack others”. But was running over the poor man’s Taxi absolutely necessary???
T C
Has the government traced down that group of the soldiers with the tank crushing the car and court marshaled them? If the soldiers claim that they are following order, who gave the order? That’s beyond outrageous.
左将军领徐州牧如东侯
wow, 2003, i was 23 back then and graduated from college just two years ago. i was watching american troops marching through iraq on tv in China. how time flies and what a fleeting nature life is!😕
Bin He
A better title for this documentary: Lies, War and No consequence.
T. L.
The taxi driver’s car was his livelihood, until the U.S. crushed it with a tank for taking some wood. 🤦🏻‍♀️
Cassie Cassiope
Frontline needs to go back to Iraq to document the outcome of this invasion today
gemini 6179
Cheney has tons of money under his bed. We all know where that comes from.
Rod Hume
Thankyou @FRONTLINE PBS | Official I really enjoy your videos, for many reasons. Keep up the great work.
Eriadorian
How naive we were back then 😔
Sam W
Is the US based on ignorance? Everything they thought was so miscalculated
Chris Brindle
“We didn’t know xxxxx would turn out that bad…” what a pathetic, overused excuse. So convenient.
Laura Splicer
You know the gun in back must be heavy when the truck is dually pickup!! Im.guessing gatlin gun of some sort.
Calmac1888
If Bush didn’t start an illegal war in Iraq maybe the Taliban would have never retaken Afghanistan
GREASE
its all about one thing…MONEY!
John Z
@7:25,, US Army ‘winning hearts and minds’. Ya know what they were doing with that wood? Fuel for their stoves.
memadman
I love all your videos. Masterfully made !
Saman Siddiquie
America needs to go down a path of atonement now. And hold its war criminals accountable.
BassForever44
Stuff like this once again confirms to me that the military and intelligence communities would fare better if it weren’t for the politicians who are always colluding and creating intrigue.
KeithHallGPS.
This is what journalism looks like, interfering in other people’s business has never ended up very well at any given time.
Edison Yee
What we want is for you to answer why did the building 7 also collapsed with just a small fire and on a freefall..
Z T
17:20 “…in Czechoslovakia in April…” 😂
Theresa Chung
Always such amazing documentaries. In a world of endless content, Frontline is peerless. And, US government… no one wants to think about the boring work of implementation. Same thing with companies. All strategy and no real thought about how to do it. Just so damn annoying
Joel Kavanagh
,,, typical de-stabilization :: stop paying security forces,, neglipect infra-structure et al …
Richard Adan Wais
Frontline’s documentary reveal the fact that what something had happened . It’s very reliable
Vendetta
25:15 Operation Iraqi Liberation. Pretty much sums it all up..
mark
When you start a war or two. But hyper partisans blame everyone else but you!
TheAWOLWarrior
To think if this war didn’t happen I’d be in Iraq right now speaking a different language and my life would’ve not looked anything like it does today. What a way to feel like a tiny pawn in the grand chess game of life. At the end of the day though I’d give it all up if it means the lives of the innocents that were lost could be saved. We will all be judge equally before our creator.
Mister Hatley
You can’t polish a turd no matter how hard you may try.
K J
More like: “Lies, War and Consequences”.
John Watt
This is just more proof that, as Americans say, corruption works for us. The United States built custom weapons to use against the ocean oil rigs and army of Iraq, attacking a day before their declaration of war. Iraq, formerly known as The Garden of Eden.
jim bob
Keep posting these excellent docos
Tina McCall
In EVERY encounter, the colonizer / capitalist / hegemon / war-profiteer shames his invented devil.
Story Teller
For a piece of wood and you destroy the car
JC ANYIAM
52:05 He’s been watching too many HOLLYWOOD WAR MOVIES!!!
Arif Rahman
One of the world bloodiest war world ever experienced before.
Rah L.
Frontline is ALWAYS on time!
nvm nvm
Y’all just went there without know what the hell you were doing. Destroyed entire countries and then label the people terrorist for defending themselves and Troy want us to believe you were the good guys. God punish you and your people.
irish anger
As an American, id just like to say that i never supported a war in irAq or Afghanistan, i knew about the Saudis, mujahedeen , the madrassas. I smelled b.s. on 9/11 as it happened. We are not monsters, just our politicians & the 1%.
Christopher Meisner
Afghanistan? Righteous War. Iraq? Um….not so much. Cheers from Canada!
truth & facts
After u turn a country into fire 🔥 ball That’s the best time to decide whether it has weapons of mushroom cloud not before. These politicians have a special place in hell
jeff edwards
America like Rome will fall because of financial mismanagement and military adventures. You watch, having an entire cabinet of dual-citizen was a big mistake
Paul Haye
Colin Powell knew better, but his job and being within the nucleus of the American power structure was more important to him than the lives of 10s of thousands of innocent people. As a Jamaican, I’m so ashamed of him.
Dustin Wyatt
33:00…classic Arab inability to admit fault. Under scrutiny, they fold like a lawn chair on the 4th of July.
Sempronius Maximus
Loot, and get your car smashed. I love it.
kanishka vikram
Politician sign declarations of War with a pen dipped in soldiers blood.
Sean Nagel
3:15 others destroyed by fire.
dark thought
why do u think the first building to be taken over in baghdad was the iraqi oil ministry. the second were the bank vaults contaning the gold and foreign currency. wake up 😉
jason lee
The ready stage indisputably wipe because radiator respectively carry during a lamentable carol. madly, precious alloy
Joel Kavanagh
,,, ‘ the invasion of th’ dilletants,, after sending home the tried and tested … “
Joseph Snyder
Why wouldn’t they hate us …machinery of death from another world
lajos juhász
AFTER 20 YEARS BEGUN SO VOICES, CLAIMES TO HEAR MAN IN NEWS WICHES IN USA AND THEN LEAVE OFF USA THIS PEOPLES.
BoeBoe GG
Where is THE DOCUMENT ?
a rodriguez
I can’t believe we invaded Iraq over this simple man’s hatred of Hussain. I blame yall for voted for that inadequate administration.
Anita H. Wells
That American army man is a Disgrace to America 🇺🇸 An American Tank running over a Taxi driver’s car… Real Tough Guy!
Bob Sanders
I’m 9 minutes & DISGUSTED ‼️ crushing somebody car for stealing some DAMN 2×4’s SMFH ‼️🤦 then the laughter afterwards, no fuckin wonder they hate us
chencharoo
Just like Star Wars each side talks about peace but engage in political and armed conflict not true honest negociación for true peace. that’s when you know it’s not about true peace but domination becouse of their mind co opted by the propaganda of their cultist irrational beliefs not facts. it’s called Star Wars for a reason. some Genius must have thought of such a thing!🐐
Ferdinando Bernasconi
Saddam Hussein was no threat at all to western countries and had never set up any terrorist organization nor housed any. Eventually, people as Chalabi are the threat
sami
The soldier in 7:21 needs to be brought to justice and please do put in mind the number of times that the Iraqis were oppressed and suppressed by the US army and it didn’t get caught on camera. When will the US presidents and politicians be brought to justice? This cycle is unhealthy for the whole world and it needs to stop!
Nguyễn Hồng Anh
american modus operandi…sanctions, no fly zones, media led demonization, and then war….who’s next ???
nancy wages
What they forget to say is guess who helped him to power!?
Haq Parast
@8:10 : a soldier who came to this region of the world BASED ON A LIE And basically to help the politicians loot and plunder Iraq is telling us that that’s what you get for “looting” by destroying the car of a taxi driver who probably wanted to gather some logs so at least he can put on a fire in his house for cooking something… !!! How bloody ironic..!!! Lol..
mohammed idle
Frontline documentaries are great. But when martin Smith report its on another level
Juji Jiju
Chalabi’s permanent half-smirk makes his face look eminently punchable. He looks like a proper conman.
nobre du
All those destructed buildings, none of one collapse, really strange, from the view of 9/11 commission!! In fact never, ever, one, even the material covered with oil in U.K. doesn’t! What crooks they are!
Kurt Pieper
Chalabi must have taught trump how to be a politician. They both have the same ability to bend the truth to their needs.
Jennie Marie
nato decided the war on terrorism sounded like a legit reason to justify to the world citizens why they should sacrifice their lives for these political agendas.
daniel groesbeck
looting what it look like they had a couple boards on their car so they probably have a fire to cook their food
Christopher Dennis
Saddam turned the fertile crescent into a dessert!?!?😂😂😂😂😂😂
Don VRGZ
And to think that one of the greatest cities that the earth ever saw. Babylon. Was in what today is modern Iraq
Dahly Lama
There were several horrible images from this video but the one that stood out the most to me was the two soldiers who summarily shot up and ran over the car of the people that stole wood. That was sick.
Rayanouu
one word: MURICA
Roderick Williams
7:00 after that was reason for them to hate us
jennie S
Outstanding and in-depth.
Jason Roberts
Hush, P. It’s either Tim, Gretchen, or my brother – and they think they are getting one over on me.
f c777
Ofcourse PBS will make a Fantastic documentary!
Keith Bell
It would be fascinating to see a like Frontlune documentary on US involvement in Afghanistan and how much it too turned out to be a disaster
Luz Algarín
Soon the fulfillment of Isaiah 2:4 will take place: “He will render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.” We will enjoy absolute peace, for all the tragical events will be forgotten, according to Isaiah 65:17: “For look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be called to mind, Nor will they come up into the heart.” And there is more..
marianwhit
I would so love to be proud to be an American, and a human. I am not.
Realize
They used the 45 minutes lie to destroy Iraq The USA and UK will be destroyed in 45 years
Carlos Bardales
Ike told us to be minful of the Military Industrial Complex and its ability to drive policy for never ending armed conflicts. Soon after that we went into Korea, then Viet Nam, then various anti cummunists ventures in Nicaragua, Grenada, etc. Then we moved away from fighting communism to other situations mostly in the middle east.. culminating in this 20 year war. Will we ever learn??
Frank Hynd
Is US Intelligence so deficient that it has to rely on conmen like Ahmed Chalabi to assess strategic dangers to the United States?
Robert Milton
Frontline. The Voice of intellectual truth and integrity. You matter. You really matter.
 
Joel Kavanagh
,,, gauded into p.wolfowitzes long-game of getting Americas’ own home …
Joel Kavanagh
,,, beware of smooth talkers making all the right noises,, ALL the time …
Desert Detroiter
See the troops drive a tank over the car and destroy it? Now you know why we failed so miserably in Iraq. SMH..🙄
Frank Skoda-Simmons
Donald Rumsfeld: “Stuff happens. And it’s untidy. And freedom is untidy. And the people are free to make mistakes, and commit crimes, and do bad things…” That’s the weirdest definition of freedom I have ever heard.
 
Ometecuhtli
An old report has resurfaced that proves that Saddam’s army had the capability to release within 15 minutes the bees or the dogs that when they bark they spit the bees at you.
Sanjay Sanj
I always laugh when US talks about human rights violation .. 🙄
archer65
Bush ordered Iraq invasion to get even not justice and the cycle of getting even will go on. Feeling sorry for all innocent civilians who died on both sides (collateral damage all).
Par Deep Secular
It was written on wall that some thing will happen in iraq after Saddam…he was at his last moments…his son was not able to handle everything…i don’t know what was the problem from Saddam….why he was attacked by making a bullshit excuse
Ari W
As an American I’m so embarrassed of those army soldiers shooting and crushing that car of people just trying to survive. Shame on them!!!
Rickeya Lyles
What is loot? What that has to do with more soldier in bagdad an what more soldier needes for they not fighting. Did he say soldiers not sure of there role?
This Face Believes You
10 minutes in and you’re honest about the looting and grift. Only time will tell if you address the preteen boys who were forced into sexual slavery and how the US government protected them all along the way.
Slave
Out news medias from the left refused truth and chose partisan propaganda. There is no truth. Only luck to not get dragged into partisan power struggles.
OrdinaryFolks
The guy with smirk is evil by looking at him
Guillermo Herbert D. Montoyo Hernandez-Goldfarb
Thank you Joe for ending the Forgotten War! 🙏😃👍
Joel Kavanagh
,,, one moment mr shady come semi%transparent ‘ well,, i am in bAGdad now … ” …
John Lawson
Oh, good: base your strategy on the word of a banker. That’s obviously going to go well…..
M T
This is just crazy. The culture is different and no one anticipated that, and no plan whatsoever to help the people.
Caroline pandian
I want to take this time out to thank Dr Igudia on YouTube for the herbs medication I ordered from him in curing my herpes disease
Christopher Chamberlain
The US media was the culprit in spinning this yarn. Right down to Ellen DeGeneres. MSNBC fired Phil Donahue simply because he protested the war.
Bex Hill
“them” Those Who Pull The Strings Of US Governments BROUGHT Down Those Towers..Your Enemy Is Close 2Hand.
João Yapur
it’d be great if it had Spanish subtitles
Las Vegas Muskets
I am a veteran of Operation Desert Storm. Notice no one looked into Chalabi being on the Israeli’s payroll. The US Government lies like a rug. I cannot even finish watching this. It is disgusting.
Joel Kavanagh
,,, quite likely sum original structure :: Sum coup inside a vitual invasion fighting to become REal …
Sally Robinson
Great video, well I still see Cryptocurrency as one of the best digital investment and I totally love the technology when it comes to the largest crypto asset bitcoin.
Filthywings
I’m glad vets get PTSD they deserve it.
Grace Antonio
O–hh 😶😢😭 Thank u for showing this to refresh the memory of humanity about the truth that politics is damn vulnerable to manipulation & the past is the root cause of the present situation facing humanity, the American identity, & why lessons must be learned so as NOT TO BE REPEATED. Humanity now has an opportunity for political creativity, a way to GET HEALTHY, forsake old ways & bad habits—personaly & POLITICALY. So help us GOD 😇😇😇
Gina Smith
I’m so digested at the taxi cab being crushed , n other soldiers telling ppl there kids shouldn’t be there they should be at school , like when getting invaded you go to school . They seemed like some very ignorant bullies
V
PBS creates a lot of the best documentaries!
Robert McGarry
WTF! What did I just witness? Did the US military just crush a car? No wonder the rest of the world hates us. They don’t understand that.
John Lim
The west encourages delapedation of Iraq!!
OrdinaryFolks
The most dangerous man found under a dirt hole. The real enemy is Saudi Arabia
Ash Og
Saddam kept Iraq secular.
João Yapur
with the money they putted on army you could have build a great country, those billions of tax dollars, fear dollars, sent to the military industrial complex instead of building companies, universities, institutions, clean cities, with that money there you could build a lot but the us went there to destroy not to build. armies don’t build countries.
Shop Talk
and u wonder y they hate us!? u crushed they car bcuz they took sum wood! smh I’m not anti America at all but that’s a bit to far
Joel Kavanagh
,,, ‘ faith based evidence “,, ‘ fake news “, the arc of post-reagan,, pre-trump political dark disney-land …
dark thought
500% up after the war 😉
mohammad aman
Tony Blair and Bush should be trialled for their crimes
D Allen
46:27 – yeah not surprising😐
Justin Hatcher
Lol… only people selected by the channel owner can comment in live chat. Well so much for freedom of speech, pfft this world is sad.
MusicGuy20
Wait, they still could make dirty bombs out of the ridiculous amount of uranium they have in stock?
Leslie Chan
While the Supreme Court abruptly decided the result of election to choose a president who do not win popular vote. A disaster of error is doomed, this is really a turning point of history. If Al gore had become president instead of Bush. The world will be better today.
Marcos Chavez
Operation O.I.L. Looting and destruction of an ancient civilization. Thanks Murica
MAKE RACISTS AFRAID AGAIN
Behind every PBS documentary lie the genius himself Martin Smith
Robert McGarry
They crushed that car with the stolen lumber still on top. How was that a learning experience for anyone? It seems like wonton destruction of property. Like, people in the US would be fatally shot by police for anything even approaching running a car over. I mean, the oil industry is the most important thing here. Oh, wait…I get it, they destroy the cars so that they can’t have normal lives, not to teach them anything…
Onwards and Upwards
The Iraqi people had to have been impoverished by the world’s economic sanctions–who could George W. Bush and his administration not realized and planned for this? Sometimes I think that there needs to be a committee of regular citizens that have power to have political input into the government and it isn’t Congress that I am talking about.
Sang Kang
I guess Iraq still produce oil. Too bad what had happened to Afgan. US only wants oil and found shale fracking.
Mackenzie Dog
I lost my surviving family to this politics. Face death almost constantly
Kevin Sysyn
There were no consequences for the Bush leadership except they got really rich and even re-elected.
Robert McGarry
The evil of the Bush administrations, both of them, the world will never live down. Condoleezza Rice, good grief. What a horrible human being, well and the shotgun VP, who got apologized to, for shooting a man in the face.
Ramzan Ali Mir
Waiting 😃😂😃😃😃
Joshua O
Wow what the F were we doing there cause those troops who drove over that mans car clearly had NO CLUE WHAT TO DO!
Sam Bontempo
Saddam was himself a weapon of mass destruction !
John kennerson
Destroying a man’s livelihood is a surefire way to produce a life long hostile enemy combatant! Idiots
Sam J.
The unnecessary violence the US army put these people through is horrible.
T C
How to build a democratic Iraq? Iran had one until 1953, hadn’t it?
John Talmage
That guy is probably going to find that his bull pride over crushing a car would have been less haunting later in life had it not been immortalized by Frontline
Goreuncle
Frontline never fails to deliver
Don Erwin
This is where you go to get the real story.
jhonatan ortiz
Iraqi exile opposition group… just call it what it is C.I.A
Emilio Rosa
Thanks you Frontline
philip horner
This negativity was never expressed towards Democrats.
Saurabh S
Conclusion:- For USA, Game:- Oil, Arms & ammunition. Playground:- Iraq, Vietnam, Libya, Afghanistan & many more to come.
leigh heinz
hahaha, psychos n warmongers luv using beautiful words to decorate their war crimes, yeah, killing ppl are not only a profi business but also an EXPERIMENTAL, hilarious!
Elsa Cruz
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Joel Kavanagh
,,, just th’ year the kISsingerites et al needed to mop up and get the juice channels set up,,, ikes mic will sort out the rest …
david foster
should be part of high school history curriculum,
Jay Jay
Frontline has the best documentary
David Jordan
Yeah! Frontline moved on from a pandemic and a litigious election to focus on our endless war on terror.
deepak kar
One thing is that Americans are brave as and great they failure due to wrong action taken by politician . 👍 Keep moving America
John
Does anyone know when this was produced/aired?
Param Sharma
Bush just wanted oil from Iraq
What about numbers and notes ?
Provide some hearsay and you will get your war. Which one is next?
 
Regor Flora
This was before the fertile cresent, sadam turn it into a dessert. Oh come on
Sz Balazs
U.S. invades Iraq – leaves a mess, ISIS is born The U.S. uses the Kurds to fight ISIS, then abandoned them. The U.S. invades Afghanistan to hunt down terrorists, 20 years later surrenders to the same terrorists.
Kirk Doray
17:23 and 17:51, same clothes, background, sound but a year apart??
Sully Man
God whiling we won’t see no more war.only Peace ✌️ on earth 🌎
Matthew Kaminski
Shooting out the windows for stealing wood, fine….but crushing the car?! Come on
Bill Wylie
You cant demolish 3 skyscrapers in 8 hours without explosives this is the united states of moronic. Monsters
Mannix Mannix
Imagine someone’s car crashed like that in a Country where you can’t even afford a bicycle!? One day I hope U.S will be held responsible for all Country they have invaded and destroys. No one should buy their propaganda of labelling other leaders evil and dangerous because their leaders are worst.
Stephen Jacks
In the 1980s Reagan gave US support to the Taliban versus the USSR, because Republicans believe all anti-communists are “good guys”. Regan/Bush built the Taliban bases in Pakistan that defeated the Soviets, then the US. There was no Taliban until US $ created them.
Stupid American
run down city? have you check part of the city of Detroit? yes, the one located in the US of A?
Dahra Brofford
Colin Powell wish you were in President Biden’s administration. You’ve always been sharp as a tack
Rocky Atlantis
War, What is it Good For! It’s a Dog eat Dog world!
Jay Jay
Smoking gun , mushroom cloud are I kidding me ?
Fifi
7:33 unnecessary … then Americans turn around and wander half the planet hates them
Michael Sweeney
They got rid of Saddam Hussein. Why is Frontline flogging this business about “why didn’t you stop the looting?”
 
Merry Taheri
This is hope and benefits? Wow this guy is sick!
Giddyupman
Chalabi is a banker. Well well well well well well well well well…
S Joyce Boyer
First they hail you, and then they nail you,~ Denzel Washington. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Logical Parrot
I like how Bush will be remembered as warmoger President of USA.
Pamela Lenski
He lied and the rest followed
Marcus Aurelius
I wish FRONTLINE would do more hard-hitting documentaries about the MANY terrible Catholic child abusers, who torment a lot of poor kids in the US & Canada…
Carlos Ghazarian
“We killed a lot of innocent civilians To us, every civilian in Baghdad was a terrorist They said ‘These Fedayeen now in civilian clothes’ that makes everybody free game But if they came within our perimeter, we lit ’em up And when we would pull the body out, and when we would search the car, we would find nothing This took place time and time again. No harm, no foul, that’s Okay, don’t worry about it Because this is a new type of war, this is an eradication.” – Marine Staff Sergeat Jimmy Massey
Anthony Respass
This is what these people think of themselves and others let them live like it
tomas neel
War on terror starts with joe Biden now
Abdisamad Hirsi
Saddam hussein as well as taliban were nothing to do with 9/11.
T C
Will that tank crushing the car be coming to the streets of, say LA or NYC?
sh t
The solid philosophy only boast because hip spatially stretch beneath a adorable doctor. seemly, dry lyre
Mike Tottenham
Great doco. The GOP & America should be ashamed for these endless war fiascos. And I doubt they that learned anything based on the current GOP. Appease the defense suppliers & pentagon.
88mphDrBrown
That ignorant MF’er crushing the guy’s taxi hurt to watch, he was so happy and proud to destroy one man’s livelihood. It seemed like he could barely speak English.
Dwight McFee
Miss the Sanctions for 12 years destroying the infrastructure. Disaster Capitalism. Be honest.
attovishnu
You don’t need a high rise for a base of operations, just put up some of those Drash Tents…….. oh thats right, you auctioned them all off for a quick buck on govplanet!!!!!!!
LunarTide
What is in place to protect from US terror on it’s own population? Fix your own house before thinking of fixing someone else’s. If you haven’t noticed idiology can’t be fixed with wars unless you inialate the entire population and start from beginning. Just like idiology if screwing shit up at home.
Tyler Stadt
Man Frontline playin them Taliban flavored hits lol
Sean Morris
This whole war was a coup wrapped in a big messy lie…….. So Hollywood 🤦
Tiger Tiger
F the US culture, lack of education and social system.. is just a mess… destroying other people’s nations and lives.. cause you think you’re right ffs How many more wars n nations…
Shieh Jimmy
The fact is the U.S can do whatever they want based on their interests even the whole world are against it.
Tom rizzo
Thank you PBS the government-sponsored propaganda for your honest opinion
T&Z
Put Iraq, Afghan, Libya and Syria in the past. Let’s guess when Washington will 💣 Beijing?So excited 😆
Green-Eyed Child
pacBellLabs, you GIVE BACK KUWAIT CITY !!! we have no business occupying the only access to export their oil. we are holding them in poverty.
Saman Siddiquie
This Chalabi guy was always an Iranian agent. America got played by Iran in Iraq.
austen tangla
Bush failed in a lot of things.
Cesar Delgado
The question is did they care about what was going to happen .
gordon b
Boycott Beijing 2022 Olympics ! Countries engaged in committing genocide don’t deserve the honor of hosting an Olympic Games.
Intrinsic Kenya
Hopefully the US now knows better than to attempt to social engineer other cultures.
DARK KNIGHT WITH AN IDEA
US troops that cannot understand a foreign culture, shoot at a taxi drivers only source of income like they’re in South Central LA & then run over his livelihood with a tank & laugh. Uneducated, undisciplined, out of control. Just unbelievable behaviour. Disgraceful.
phoenixnair
What happened to this sort of reporting?
Jeffery Holcombe
They had transport! Bullshit, it has already come out they never went anywhere and sold the gas out of the M-raps.
Ronald Reagan
That chalabi guy makes so angry. He is clearly lying and he knows it. I don know whats his agenda
Joy Lean
I can’t, I’ve seen it, oh it is with someone blah blah blah. US should apologise to the poor Iraqis and pay compensation to those that were killed in the attack and seriously we know the people of Iraq suffered but who made money
Louis Mp
Chalabi got buttchered in this show
88mphDrBrown
How can all of these people do this and not one person is held accountable?
alexis f
As an American citizen, I can honestly say that I don’t know what to believe anymore concerning the various wars that America has engaged in. What is the truth, why did America get involved in these various wars, what was America trying to gain from these wars. There seems to be so many lies and false flags surrounding these wars.
Joel Kavanagh
,,, the shadiest friends of supra%shady pERle wil guide you right to where it pays …
صقر السبيعي
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Woody
What does Iraq and George Bush have in common; oil oil and oil
Albert Selman
Analysis George w bush not found weapon’s in iraq of chemical biological united states president sending troops to fight saddam hussein army truth of war
Huy Hau
Hope peace for all , war just killings but never fix the problems
Steven Fuller
US intelligence service needs to be dismantled and reconstructed. The failures of the last 31 yrs are so immense they cannot be quantified in lives nor in monetary sums. To say the CIA and all other branches of US intelligence failed would be a horrific misrepresentation of the tragedy that unfolded in the Middle East.
Ras7685
Hindsight is 20 -20 , and 20 years later , my opinion of Bozo Bush and his kronies is still the same , all should be put in jail for their experiment !
fukyocouch
Iraqi Gentlemen: proposes his guidelines for an Iraq democracy. Us: ” aahh. You thought democracy wasn’t corrupt?!?! Hahaha. You’ve got a lot to learn my friend. I introduce to you Nancy Pelosi. She’ll get you up to speed on democracy” Iraqi: ” oh that’s how it works, never mind”
Bendie J
What we would like too see in arab countries???? Focus om your OWN country
Stella Rocquie
Support Legislation in the United States to BAN COURT ORDERED RAPE
David Hernandez
◾There was a personal quarrel between Bush father and Hassan Hussein…. Consequently, the real reason why Bush son went into Iraq….
Peter Lapointe
Write they take wood so you crush their vehicle.. that’s one reason why they hated us
Gareth Xue
If Iraq did have nukes, would US and UK invade Iraq ?
ev3goddess y.o. Chandler
Tragedy & smelly ruined cities rR everywhere these days in time although sum places aren’t aziz unstable aziz others howev3a generally loss of morals in people creates an loss in economic development and real tyme growth inn all thee places that matter. violence of any kind doesn’t create peace. Beginning with defaming of characters wit no probable causes ect.
Bob Trajkoski
Just like high school kids bully planning on gang war so close to evil
Keking
Told u America: mind your own business.
Theresa Chung
One more thing. Can’t stand the snakey face of Chalabi. He’s such a charlatan/liar. Says a lot about those who believed him.
Gary Green
And still no wmds lol 😝
5th Gen
Ahmad chalabi traitor for his home land
Justin Caterson
Free and live there lives
SILK Spectre
The drastic change in American politics was weird to watch from Europe. The amount of blatant lies, false assumptions and a huge wave of patriotism blurred reality and merged with desperate longing for revenge. It doesn’t work this way. You can not bring back the dead and no justice is achieved with short-sighted invasions as they tend to backfire.
s21972012145525
Frontline opening up the archives post the loss in Afghanistan
Barb Ginther
Mr. Haliburton ran the show. We ruined every country we were in.
artbiz
All that works money and lives for Iraq and Afghanistan then we had to leave broke and lost we are mislead by our so called friends like Chalabi
Mihai Novac
…..a crime based just on a mountain of lies
Tony Caine
So did anyone took the blame for these false pretenses wars?
Cathy LaTorre
They knew exactly what they were doing exactly people can say anything it doesn’t make it true it does not make it true
Kimberly Crichton
Dumb & Dumber — Bush & Rumsfeld — who fashioned tragedy.
James Edwards
Richard Perle was the problem.
Frasereder236
what an utter embarrassment.
J Levenson
Lies. What a shame.
Kevin Ratay
Looting? Thank God there’s no looting here in America…lol
Damien O Callaghan
The President at the time – George W invaded IRAQ because his father George Bush could not get SADDAM And that is the ONLY reason why he went in His father did not get the Job done
William Krum
Inch by inch we got to there As in Iraq so too in Afghanistan. The United States seems incapable of learning from it’s past. The myth of Syssipus seems our destiny. As Thomas Jefferson remarked. “I Tremble for my country.” W. Krum
Mannix Mannix
Bush should be prosecuted for war crimes and crime against humanity and spend his remaining time with Charles Tailor of Liberia in Hague.
Martin Mungai
The war is never worn by outsiders. God help Iraq.
dark thought
500 up after the war
Arafat Sajja
I wonder how Americans could be deceived by one clown-Ahmad Chalabi, the man is selfish and a fool. Good they got the democracy and progress they wanted. Iraq people have suffered so much.
D D
Filmed in 480 p , your joking right?
mogeking56
It’s not al-Qaeda it’s al-Qudy
Edna Thompson
Our government must weigh the number of military committed to one combat area against others that need protections plus maintain a surplus needed as backup for all these protected areas; and, a continuous surplus of combat ready troops. This is no easy task; but, we must question the commitment of those in charge who are paid well to be able to evaluate and organize our forces in such a way that we grow minds, technology and strengths that will meet the challenges we face from other enemies with brute forces and strong minds of survival.
philip horner
Joe Talibiden was for it all
rio k rio k
I wonder how come no body have take their heads of those rotten human beings
marte thompson
Sadam Hussein wanted the Iranians to believe that he had WMDs.
Tyler Durden
You won’t find truth in Washington.
Bernie Guzman
I recall a comment made by an elderly colleague, a steady, gentle man, as we headed out of our corporate offices and to our cars at the end of the day, this a few months after 9/11, he said, with utmost sincerity, “It’s time we go down there and kick some Arab butt!”. Cheney, Bush, Perlman & Powell certainly architected the war in Iraq but they spoke their ideas and values onto fertile soil, America wanted revenge and we cheered after Saddam fell. We wanted this …
Betty Benitez
Chalabi, Chalabi, Chalabi… The connecting, underlying, unsettling repeating MENTIONING of that name, that lying.His lying Face says it ALL. America trusted in the wrong person as usual & put all its eggs in basket. History repeats itself and *,”those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. “ – Santayana Saddam Hussein, had the weapons the POTUS, HerbertW.Bush & Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave him not of ” mass destruction. “ I remember hearing & watching the first missiles launched into Iraq. Chalabi lied & the US military complex was more than WILLING to comply. FOLLOW THE MONEY that LED to ALL the unnecessary shedding of HUMAN BLOOD.
Rob Fila
Lies, War & Consequences
1Pushypusher
Chalabi is Ali Baba
GenPone
Meanwhile in Afghanistan…
Joe Smith
Why don’t you media people start with telling the Real Truth …like about why we “this government” really went into Bagdad Iraq…like northern oil fields, maybe?!
Johannes Müller
All you guys post is outdated stuff that you ran 100x on your tv channel, what about some uptodate stuff than this now almost irrelevant old crap. Not to mention the bad video quality and ridiculous format
Saint Lawrence
these guys create the best version of world wide propaganda out of all of them…graphics and music blend fabulous with the actors mixed with the real …what an allusion for the feeble minded
Venzi Ro
It happen again in afgan….what a suprise coincidence
rachelle roxas
The likeable polo elderly fix because chime topically boast until a right pail. tall, slimy process
 
Velai386 Repai469
The boundless believe focally level because phone orally disappear regarding a obscene libra. calculating, flashy door
Unveiled Eyes
Timely telecast as we see and hear rhetoric drumming up against both Russia and China. Will we ever learn? For all of humanity’s sake, I hope and pray so …
K Rie
Shocking! Never trust US politicians with any report. All these lies were later sold to the media then broadcast without any verification. Same strategy is being used on China issues.
G W
America was sold this war based on lies!!
Wilford Fraser
Once upon a time I couldn’t stand Bush. Now I think of him as being pretty decent if goofy. I really blame the men around him for Iraq; Cheney and Rumsfeld, Pearle and Bremmer and Kalibi. Those men didn’t care about human lives they only care about power. Sociopaths in suits.
Pra San
Watever may be a reason today, end result is a country which is oil rich totally dependent on international funding to rebuild its cities to bring back people life to normalcy… Icing on the cake is, whole world is suffering due to high oil cost. All because of 1 decisive move without any thought. 🤷‍♀️
Uncle Monster
And yet we have hungry and homeless right here in the states but yet we are wasting money on shit shows like these since less “wars!”
Valerie Ahenkorah
Don’t think people don’t know what is doing all this program, this evil wickedness is not a dream
Beej Price
Anyone remember Baghdad Bob?
mailtorajrao
Screwed in and up in Vietnam, Iraq and now in Afghanistan…. Everyone will think 10 times before allying with the US.
CyberRasputen
No, our troops should never have been there stealing property. The stuff they were looting was just destroyed by the tank when that could’ve gone to someone who actually needed it. So lame watching our IUS troops being so childish and arrogant.
A.CHOPHI
We needed Israel documentaries
godson johnson
These are criminals both the Iraqi who connived with the Americans. The documentary is top notch 👌 thanks Frontlines.
Cocoliso Osilococ
Im disgusted to see those terrorists in this video on my pc screen (BUSH, RUMSFELD, POWELL, RICE, CHENEY)
Mandy Done
I believe in Karma
Paul M
Am ashamed how we all justified 🇮🇶 war. Obama didn’t but sent troops.. no rebuilding at all… sad sad 😔 😢 😔
Han Zhang
8 minutes in and it’s infuriating already to see the stupidity of policies in place. Looted a few pieces of wood, so you destroy a car? The economy and people there are already deprived of material wealth. There are much better ways to punish crimes without the destruction of material goods.
John Lim
Another propaganda lie from the WEST
drhsiraf
Who is more evil? Saddam Hussain or George Bush.. who killed more innocent people ?
Hal Weilbrenner
While the guy “representing” Iraq said he was grateful to the American (US) Government I’d say I apologize for destroying their country. Big mistake, Rumsfeld, Cheney made blood money off of this war & George W. B. was lead down the wrong path.
SuperGoldaM
The United State of America go to some countries and destroy them. They invade countries for petróleo or bc they are too emotional or irrational.. Sad what has happened to Irak, Afganistán and so on..
Chris -or- Neil
W’s Iraq war led to well over a million Iraqi Christians being killed, taken into slavery or forced to flee their homes and become refugees.
Txiv Yawg
This guy lied, lied to his teeth to get into a war. Now his lies return to bite his nation. Up to one million Afghanistanians will be here in the US soon. And very soon, another one+ millions Iraqis will also be here. What a shame.
maxamad cumar cabdi
But know USA and western lies come to end 2021?
Anthony Respass
Let there be cash flow
Lisa Brygger
Sweethearts, Liive
Rolly Herrera
Can we get our money back???
Ruben King slime
I hope it’s not pro war.
Richard Martinez
Luding in time war Isa mater of life or dead you die testing to help you family to survive or die by the soldiers protecting the interest of nobady
mnati25
Akili nyingi huondoa maarifa
K Bram
Sounds familiar
rio k rio k
He has evidence the rat he said what evidence lies after lies
Chase Centario
You took your eye off the Ball in Afganistán!!!
MustBtrouble
how many of those INC people are spooks.
Canadian Citizen #273
Now this stuff is history. A sad history.
Helen Heard
I guess they did not listen and bark up all the trees,
Kevin Mulcahy
After the Trump administration, I had forgotten how shameless the actors of the Bush administration were.
Alison
The US soldiers took away that man’s life, basically. What is he to do???? Disgraceful.
Black Knight
Am i idiosyncratic or as mad as it sounds even this admin would do a better job than potatoe heads
ahmed somali
American troops really terrorised iraq
Robert Milton
So many potential “war criminals,”
Nick
mIsSiOn AcCoMpLiShEd…
Jon Creed
Had a lot of respect for Colin Powell back in the day but he turned out to be a weak sister, an opportunist who declared himself a “Republican” in the delusion only way for a Black Man to become President, he thought he was going to be Republican nominee in 2000, then he joined in the Big Lie of WMDs in Iraq- a useless war that took resources away from finding Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Avion Green
Did they have to shoot the car first?
Merry Taheri
Oh let’s go that’s it???? Sickens me!
Mick Bond
Another ? is , why representatives from Europe are present on their meeting to start invasion to Afghanistan, but no Russians nor Chinese !???? It was such important decision
Aman Singh Chauhan
American people must see the real motives of their top politicians behind all these threat to America & so called establishment of democracy Slogans’.
Katie
Crushing the car…when the wood wasn’t even theirs. No, I do not salute them.
Saint Lawrence
if you run you can say…. Iran……as they had better do real soon…someone needs a country to war with over rapid chain reaction abilities
Jd Oversea
If this is what you’re Patriotic about. You need a reality check. So many American men and women lost their lives, their families, their friends. Etc. so many innocent civilians in this country lost their lives. It’s heartbreaking. I will always stand for what’s right, but this shit? This ain’t right.
Nguyễn Hồng Anh
it’s ruined my day see that womens face….that rice women
Christopher Dennis
Why not invade Saudi Arabia?? They’re a vicious dictatorship. Or Egypt?
Lia Kayte
Criminal invasion! What it is. And American soldiers doing this .Shame!
raul mendez
So how is the tech industry, behavioral studies and experiments ok to be conducted on American people just because they can’t control you…
Thomas Greaves
Trying to force or create modern ideals and values upon what is basically a stone age country (very large tribe) and people is just so naive. Look at Afghanistan in the past two weeks… When will we learn?
Ray Xestock
totally wrong to destroy the persons car in my opinion
Andre Wasp
Yep the fake war on terror!
rio k rio k
this country had the power to do good in this world but he choose the evil way and still does I wonder if this rotten still a live after millions of his compatriots are destroy
Nev Hop
Everything America has touched has turned in to shit!
Somnium
Its not just bush our country is run by the military in both parties
DTOM
This guy should go see Baghdad today! He thinks Baghdad under Saddam Hussein was bad?, Today they don’t even have a hospital let alone running water, nothing new has been built in Iraq since the Iranian backed government took over, not even a single road! How do I know? I worked in an NGO to help build development projects part of CUDA
sajiktm
Full of lies and propaganda. This guy Ahamed Chalabi had no idea about Iraq. Watch carefully Collin Powells statement about Iraq … inside his mind he know he is telling lies and propaganda.
Joe Lewis
Those solders smashing that guys car there idiots
Elvin Vinicius Rasposo
Talking about the Iraqis as if they are things and not real people. Then they are expected to embrace something totally alien to them, something that they have never known “democracy”. Millions of Iraqi lives lost? Millions of displaced people and a country in total ruins base on a lie. After watching so much garbage on main stream “news” I’m glad to see that there’s still real journalism. This is one of the very few outlets telling the truth.
jaye see
Blah, blah, blah, yadda,yadda, yadda. A bunch of bums.
Michael Mole
1:12:00 sends chills up my spine when fighting monsters don’t become one
Marc Goudreau
Why is there no discussion of the looting of museums and archeological sites in Iraq… destruction of some of the most priceless antiquities from the dawn of human history ? There is no precedent in history for Americas’ crimes of omission in their quest to squeeze the “little American” out of every living soul on the planet. America is a sickening reminder of the influence of profound ignorance and racism in a troubled world. 🙁
ben harriston
i still believe dc stupid should be charged with war crimes
Faheem Ahmed Umrani
Countries destroyed. Millions murdered. People who did all this still sleeping peacefully feeling no regret.
Glop Tiro
Best picture quality is 420p. Not good
Miss Molly
Just silly 😜 huh. Big timer liar
M Chambers
Sounds like PBS is still butt hurt about the 2000 election.
Gia Wou
Watching this in 2021. US is still look stupid.
Merry Taheri
Horrible! War occupation killing is never the answer!
heymisterderp
Americans are still cleaning their diapers that we withdrew from Afghanistan. They haven’t learned a thing from all this folly. Anyway this is another top shelf production from Frontline PBS. They were the very best back in the day and they’re still great. The insidious nature of censorship in our land today might have seeked to ban this documentary but times were a lot different in 2003. Al Qaeda (via the USG) wasn’t done winning yet (destroying our rights from the inside).
PRO PAINTER PRO DEC
lies upon lies upon lies
Mauricio Rano
Lies, coverup, and American disgrace
Manzo Rico
Still is not clear who is the dictator
Kraaxpelax
Shouldn’t Baby Bush be in prison for war crimes? With Tony Blair.
Jacqueline Maize
The US troops were tasked to stop looters, seems very wrong they confiscated his vehicle and destroyed it. The buildings had already been destroyed and were out of commission, the people of course seeking something to improve their own lives. Doubt the US had contractors ready to rebuild, not like the Army was going to train the tankers to rebuild, people are more important than equipment and technology so they shouldn’t have punished their crime of looting in that way. Sad, we all need to learn skills to be productive
Pamela Bean
Where are the women🤔
Cathleen Weston
Saddam didn’t want the Central Bank. That is WHY he was taken out. He kept al Qaida in check too. Just like That Ghaddafi . This is simply propaganda. Islam could NEVER be good to it’s people. Leave the middle east alone. They will never be right. Save our soldiers. Bring them home and turn the place to sand.
Slade Prendergast
Looting lets ruin car no they will probably be in much worse shape and they laugj
Yusuf Futloo
It is obvious that only American lives matter. The tables have turned. We trust Allah only.
Moha Noor
America fool them yo destroy there own land , all that is because of power and greed ….
Alexander Kratzsch
“Terra”, eh? Well, Mr. Bush, I think we have won the war against Terra. And you and your party certainly deserve credit for that.
Saman Siddiquie
Americans deserve leaders who speak the truth to them. Bush is a war criminal.
Saint Lawrence
topic hints for next time, oil,control,money,arms,corporations, politician kickbacks,currency aide …..just a few….oh and offshore names would be a start
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What will fix problems
Christine Sage
America cannot even house her own homeless people how can she solve The world’s problems?
Hasan Patel
It was Bush and cheny who started all wars for America
whoisdickieschnabel
“From Africa”? The whole continent eh?
Scar626
All I’d say is military forces do not and should not do policing. If you travelled back in time and asked a Redcoat what he would do to stop a crime taking place vs a modern day English bobby the answers would shock you. Generally police vs military = one is trained to keep the peace and the other to kill. Maybe the marines should have a military police division especially trained for this 😂 Either that or do not do nation building/regime change to begin with.
Viv doolan
George Bush couldn’t string a sentence together, neither could Trump. How was this the best on offer to lead the country ? A sad indictment.
Maxwell Benz
I love how Frontline so underfunded we only get reruns
Irate Pirate
Chalabi is an example of the differences between president Clinton and Bush. Clinton was fact base while Bush was faith base when dealing with Iraq
Mursal Sayid
It was all about to destroy Iraq so Israel be safe . Isn’t it.
Mo0onShadoW
Why do you continue to ignore the fact that Saddam killed more civilians using gas than any other leaders in history? Weapons of mass destruction does no mean just nuclear devices, gas is most definitely a weapon of mass destruction and using them in 1988 means that he is capable of using them again. You may not like Bush or the U. S. A. But that doesn’t change the fact that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, used them, and was capable of using the again.
ronnie sapp
Lmfao that’s what you get when you loot I fucking love that
Pro Found
Bush should have just sent a drone instead of invading Iraq like Trump did with Iran Soleimani. USA has the most advance satellites and they decided to send a bunch of soldiers🤦🏻🤦🏻.
AB Mia
George W. Bush couldn’t fart without daddy’s permission.That was George H.W’s war from start to finish.
lukulli kiwamba
Sadam was better than USA it’s sad to see Iraq people still get pay a little with media companies to talk bad about their own country it’s sad this remind me of colonial early, colonial master ca f u all family and still you ohhh master you better than me you should stay here and save me what pity and sad to see people like this
Merry Taheri
So horribly sad!!!!
Stephen Smith
Trump was right again.
FYAYM
Headline says truth, almost immediately starts with lies. Lol
Beau33
Don’t worry America is getting there. Soon their cities will be dilapidated.
Stray Tarnish
Imagine if the LAPD had just ran over the looters …… or the covid looters in San Francisco right now maybe we should go in with the SWAT team tank and run their bicycles over, forgetting about due process, Reasonable Doubt, officer discretion, and or de-escalation.
Alan Bourbeau
The first time I heard about the war in Iraq was when I was a freshman in high school and I didn’t know what to make of it. But I do know this and that former President George W. Bush did his best to deal with Iraq’s dangerous leader. And I for one give him credit and to his dad as well. Now I sincerely hope that current President Joe Biden does his best as well.
Mick C
Trust matters ? America the KING of fake news .
Mikel Ben Zvi
After 20 years in Afghanistan they realize that they shouldn’t have been there in the first place, so they want a “safer” world that means safer America but when they go to war and invade countries, they’re so bloody stupid that they cant even understand what to do there and when to leave. So many lives lost for nothing.
God’s Spiritual Poet
Job 22:21– “Yield now and be at peace with Him; Thereby good will come to you. Job 22:22– “Please receive instruction from His mouth And establish His words in your heart Job 22:27– “You will pray to Him, and He will hear you; . . . Job 22:28– “ . . . And light will shine on your ways.
White Chocolate
Biden says, “Huh? Where am I?”
Sally Nhlanhla
That’s so wicked crushing that car… SO unnecessary.
* Azeez
Look closely and you see liberalism being invoked everywhere to justify this absolute debacle.
blaine monaco
Sounds like Detroit…..
Drunk Mutt
Cheney says the Iraqis would greet the Americans as liberators. They did up until Bush/Cheney fired/disbanded the Iraqi army and completely de-Ba’ath’ed the government. The ex-military Iraqi were the insurgency Bush/Cheney created. Oh, and let’s not mention Bush/Cheney not providing any security forces to quell the looting, the armed gangs and the obvious fact that there was NO post invasion plan of any kind. Yeah, they’re “brilliant”.
*MisS* *TriNiDaD*
Watch All the trumpists downvote this video. Thank the Bush administration.
Issac F
That tank crushing the civilian’s car was a no-go
STANLEY M
Although I don’t believe they are always balanced in their documentaries, Frontline has been my favorite watch for many years. I remember Judy Woodruff and the late Jessica Savitch reporting in the early days. Of course nobody is better than Will Lyman, who could make a ping pong match riveting.
Gerardo Godoy
I believe we did the right thing .
gvi341984
Americans should be aware of some things – Saddam was going to invade Kuwait again – Russia ruined Afghanistan in 1978 when the country looked like Turkey – everything is made with petroleum by products – Russian aggression is very real in all fronts they want the money equally as the Americans – stability of the Petrodollar means stability in global markets – private mercenary groups from the west still I’m Afghanistan – ones running for the plane were Pakistani
S K
Where’s the Frontline report on “Who Cares?” Uncle Joe?
ednan9
Why is PBS showing 2003 documentary in 2021? No new programming?
John long
Consciences ?😂 . Hold your Bro Biden responsible for the deaths he caused in Afghanistan .. Then mabe we can talk…
wit2pz
Frontline and their hit pieces… Really a shame that the narrative in this doc is “America is bad; should’ve left Saddam in charge.” Got more people’s emotions in an uproar about a looter’s car getting crushed than anything else! The footage that irked me was the soldier insisting that the man’s child should be in school instead of following him around… but that’s ignorance I can forgive; a soldier’s job is a thankless one! And of Makia’s poignant, succinct, on-point response to Martin’s attempt to “get him” on Americans being “suckered in,” the ONLY word he repeats is “experiment?” How about the footage of the people of Iraq participating in their first election, dancing in the street with ink on their fingertips? How about interviewing the enlisted men and women who were there to ensure that the bombs being lobbed to discourage the people from voting? How about giving us something regarding the success of the campaign currently?
Jay Hart
If this is some leftist BS excuse episode, to explain Biden’s ineptitude, I’ll never watch PBS again.
Emme Summerlin
What is going on today is despicable because of this incompetent president and his administration. No sense in going back to 2003 when we will all be living it in 2021 and for future years to come. The Taliban is not done with America and now they have $80B worth of equipment to complete their mission.
Societé DSP Historiche
Trump wasn’t strong enuff to end the war- only Uncle Joe had the strength to do it!
J M
Obviously, Afghanistan was better off with the Americans there. You cannot say Afghanistan is better off, now, with the Taliban in power.
Jason Urban
That whole Administration was lying garbage evil not as bad as this new Administration though
Seti4077
This is just going to be a bunch of propaganda again pbs cannot look at politics without picking a side
Yellow School Bus's
God I miss President Bush, and his entire administration.