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A forum for combat footage and photos from historical to ongoing wars. compilation of Iraq combat footage from 2003. takes me back to fallujah.net and early Liveleak.
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Getty Images. The 2003 invasion of Iraq toppled President Saddam Hussein. On 20 March 2003, US and allied forces invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. The US said Iraq had weapons of ...
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Jan 27, 2017 · After 100 days spent fighting those who had become publicly accepted as the culprits – Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan – the US set the ball rolling for war against Iraq.
- Iraq War. The Iraq War was a complex conflict that left behind scars and memories still felt to this day. It’s hard to imagine that for almost 10 years, the world sat as this conflict unfolded before us.
- Truth, War and Consequences. Did America make an ill-fated decision to wage war on Iraq? In this 2003 documentary, FRONTLINE critically examines why the U.S. initiated a conflict in Iraq, what went wrong during the planning for the postwar occupation, and what were the consequences of going to war for both the citizens of Iraq as well as Americans.
- Iraq War Veterans. Months after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, I embarked on a journey to document the gritty and real-life experiences of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (known as the Gunners).
- Iraq War Documentary. The War in Iraq has been one of the most controversial conflicts that our nation has ever seen, and it is now time to take a closer look at what led up to it.
- The Costs of War
- Goal 1: Peace at The Barrel of A Gun
- Goal 2: Democracy as A Pathway to Authoritarianism
- Goal 3: Prosperity at Any Cost
- Australia’s Obligations 20 Years on
Any reflection of the war must first address the staggering costs. Although estimates vary, approximately 186,000 Iraqi civilians died and an untold number were injured. And more than nine million Iraqiswere internally displaced or forced to flee the country. Beyond such figures are a series of very real, but far less tangible, costs such as the da...
On the purported aims of the invasion, Iraq has clearly gone backwards on many metrics. On the first goal of bringing peace to Iraq, it is true the coalition forces toppled Hussein and his entire Baathist regime in just six short weeks. He was later captured, put on trial and finally hangedin December 2006. However, the coalition forces failed to a...
The second key goal of the war was to bring liberal democracy to Iraq. It, too, has a complicated legacy. On the one hand, the Iraqi people are to be admired for having embraced democracy. Millions of Iraqis vote in the nation’s regular provincial and federal elections. Iraq is also now home to a strong culture of dissent, as is evidenced by the fr...
Third, the goal of turning Iraq into a beacon of prosperity driven by a free-market economy has only benefited a handful of corrupt elites. On the one hand, Iraq’s real GDP (based on purchasing power parity) has skyrocketed in recent years on the back of its oil wealth, reaching an estimated US$390 billion (A$583 billion) in 2021. This is the 50th ...
All of this raises deep questions about the political responsibilities and moral obligations of the United States and its key coalition partners such as Australia. While various Australian organisations run a handful of important programs across Iraq – especially in agriculture, human rights and mine-clearing – these fall well short of meeting the ...
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Mar 20, 2023 · 04:09 - Source: CNN. Stories worth watching 16 videos. A look back on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War. 04:09. Bride's sister springs into action when snake interrupts wedding party. 01:33 ...
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The Iraq War ( Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized : ḥarb al-ʿirāq ), sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War [82] was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein.
