Five years on: The coalition of the willing - 19 Mar 08

[Madpolis7]

not only does half of the world hate bush, half of america hates bush. not all of us Americans are dumb fucks but i can see why Europeans would think so. I want to move to the uk....

[2ockedand2oaded]

@Madpolis7

I don't know if that's a good idea, move to somewhere like sweden, where you'll never be poor.

[worldwanderer91]

Allied Powers (FDR-Churchill-Stalin) > Axis Powers (Hitler-Mussolini-Tojo) > Bush's moronic Coalition of the Billing

[TheRichieCShow]

May I post this on my facebook?

[HZstudent]

Bush should be happy if I read the discription right. We can all agree stealing oil for five years is way better/ more then they could just get in one year?

And when are they gonna go to North-Korea again??

[djphlange]

3:07 - RLY? YA THINK SO?

[pyromaniaknl]

Just watch Zeitgeist the movie on google, it explainst everything.

[DrStrangebomb1993]

HOW COULD YOU SUCK UP TO BUSH THIS WAY ROMANIA? I live in Sweden but my parents are from Romania and this is disgusting. They didn't come to rid Iraq of Saddam, they came to rid it of its petroleum.

[thegovamint]

gotta love the ending statement!

[danning1]

*From the Movie "Farenheit 911":

"The island of Palau! The Republic of Costa Rica! The kingdom of Iceland!" (none of which have armies at all) "But WAIT! There was Romania (vampire pops out)! The Netherlands (a guy smokes a bong)..."

You get the idea.

[stinloaf]

@danning1 THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. morocco offered to send over 2000 monkeys to help detonate land mines.

[Debono11]

This video is full of lies. It doesn't mention the humanitarian contingent Japan sent. Also it says that Denmark, Australia and Poland COMBINED sent 2,500. WRONG.

Denmark was not part of the invasion force, Australia sent 2,500 and Poland sent 194 which peaked at 2,500. This video also fails to mention the 19 nations that sent a combined force of 10,568.

[HerraIce]

we have england ! and japan is sending playstations ! and denmark is willing to drop bombs over bagdad !

good enough

[chafaclon]

The coalition of the willing...to power

[technogearhead]

Excellent...

to hear a white male say

"anglo american invasion" gave some hope that this group was not always allowed to be in hiding behind the masses.

[dcaudilla]

how could he disarm when he didnt have anything left?

[dragun39]

coalition of the fools

[KrGsMrNKusinagi0]

ROFL 1441 never solved the question Jesus christ saddam was suppose to disarm in 1991 not 2010 Anybody else believing these clowns. The point was Saddam signed stating he would disarm in 10-15 days..

NOT 10-15 years

[Debono11]

This video is full of lies. It doesn't mention the humanitarian contingent Japan sent. Also it says that Denmark, Australia and Poland COMBINED sent 2,500. WRONG.

Denmark was not part of the invasion force, Australia sent 2,500 and Poland sent 194 which peaked at 2,500. This video also fails to mention the 19 nations that sent a combined force of 10,568.

[breezeman199]

When the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer eventually every problem starts to look like a nail. I submit to you that the only tool the U.S. government has is its military and since military forces are only designed to fight wars, war becomes the inevitable consequence of America's bankrupt foreign policy. There were many alternatives to war in 2003 but the U.S. government is a 'one-trick' pony. As Albright once said ' what's the point in having this big military if you can't use it'?

[Debono11]

I don't argue the war on terror. For it or against it, thats your choice to make. My only argument is that this video lied about troop deployment sizes and what nations contributed to the Coalition.

[partya11night20]

Could you indicate a source for you figures?

[Debono11]

Google, wiki, news sites from other nations.

Iraqi Kurdistan used about 70,000 troops to help overthrow the Iraqi government. This report does not mention them, nor does it mention spain or south korea.

Not to mention the fact that larger coalition deployments were made after the occupation started.

There was never a coalition ammount of under 25,000 troops during the war nor the occupation untill withdraws started. Japan came in later too.

[breezeman199]

"If war is forced upon us",,,,, How can war be "forced" upon YOU when YOU are the invading force?

[Debono11]

When a government feels that it's nation is under threat and they decide to strike before before the enemy does, this is called a preemptive strike.

In other words, if you believed a nation had the capability and intention to harm your nation, you would invade and remove such capability. Understand?

[breezeman199]

True. However it WASN'T under any threat! Where were the "weapons of mass destruction"? The neoconservatives who HIJACKED the Republican party wanted to attack Iraq since 1992 (see the project for the New American Century) to reshape the mideast to protect their beloved Israel (neocons are mainly Jews). Your "preemptive war" rational was the mentality of Wilhelmine Germany & its justification for its aggresion in Aug 1914. "Preemptive strike" mentality creates a self-fullfilling prophecy.

[calumcoburn]

It's reeeeally simple. Bush, Obama, Clinton are all funded by the Illuminati. Same group who own the private company called: The Federal Reserve, same folk who organise the Bilderberg meetings. They're working for a New World Order - check the American $1 bill note, the Fed Reserve has the audacity to print it in Latin. Human lives mean nothing to them.

[calumcoburn]

Bush is building a New World Order, so are Obama & Clinton. The Illuminati / Bilderberg money is behind them. The Arab and for that matter any other people means nothing to them.

[calumcoburn]

Bush is building a New World Order, so are Obama & Clinton. The Illuminati / Bilderberg money is behind them. The Arab and for that matter any other people means nothing to them.

[BuckyDunGunn]

1/3 of America still supports Bush's war of terror.

They're the "One-Third Reich."

[tehScribbles]

1/3? I wonder where people get these numbers. I could ask 100 americans if they support the Iraq war, I might get a couple of people to say yes, at most.

[wwwPNACATTACKcom]

4th Reich....

Defected General Hussein Kamel Testimony to UN (UNSCOM)in Amman, Jordan 22-8-1995

[bluz242]

Mad president for the mad people,Americans have forgotten the second law of Newton and will pay the price sooner or later.Americans talk about democracy, freedom of people by enslaving poor, American r propagating these policies on behalf of Israel

[studio7manga]

Oh boy, you sound like a text book YT crazy to me.

[neotoy]

Well, we are paying the price for our collective stupidity now. I know plenty of people on both sides. But it wasn't just a matter of being dumb, the Bush admin. lied almost unilaterally. Most people outside the US do not understand how much influence the mass media has over our politics.

[kellog1]

I find this strange when you americans blame it all on bush and his administration...but you people are equally responsible, it is you americans who elected him not once but twice. So you as people of US should take reponisibility for Iraq and Afghanistan where millions of lives have been destroyed. SHAME ON YOU!!!!

[jklasdfjdfksl]

i agree that there is some responsibility there, but propaganda manipulation through the mass media ensures a political system that is not representative of popular opinion. it was also the media that was used as a tool to scare most americans and drown them with propaganda into thinking that if iraq was not attacked, the US would be hit with nukes. this sounds stupid and its scary that the US elites were able to successfully manipulate this idea. democracy in the US exists in name only.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

since that foolish trick that allowed bush to go to war unoppossed, his policies have been increasingly disliked once people began to see things for what they really are. none of this is represented in the political action of the US government and the US corporate media is again hiding the fact that the new candidates basically support all of bush's old policies; it is telling people that supporting obama or clinton is actually a turn away from those policies, when it is actually a continuation.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

at their essence, americans are good people, just like any other. despite this, they are the most misled and since birth are led down the path of capitalist nationalism. there is actually trillion dollar industries with psychologists who come up with ways to influence children into growing into this lifestyle. this is how democracy in the US has not represented the interests or will of the people, but has been mostly a tool for US economic elites.

[kellog1]

I agree the Americans are manipulated thru mass media and propagating tools. But the outside world see Americans as one entity, it does not distinguish between US Govt and American people. So at the end of day the world sees the images coming out from Iraq and afghanistan as American BRUTALITY on innocent people of other countries.

[kellog1]

And usually people learn from thier past mistakes...but americans haven't learned anything from Vietnam War(was a Commie state and is a Commie State) and there are repeating the same mistakes again.

[studio7manga]

That's a problem with the myopia of the 'outside world' then. Maybe the outside world and the US should take a more nuanced view of situations in general.

[studio7manga]

You seem to forget that over and almost half (1st and 2nd elections) of Americans did vote against Bush and there are plenty of people try to stop the idiocy of our government.

[DillonX]

Don't blame us all.

I voted against Bush twice.

And went to protest the invasion of Iraq with other Veterans before the war began.

But maybe even we could've done more.

Still Bush & Cheney are the ones with the most blood on their hands.

[kellog1]

Iraqis are saying the same thing...Why are americans are bombing and using phosphoric acid (Chemical weapons) on innocent civilian population.

[wwwPNACATTACKcom]

Defected General Hussein Kamel Testimony to UN (UNSCOM)in Amman, Jordan 22-8-1995

[tmwilson06]

Thank you, Al Jazeera

[salahuddin786]

All it requires is the worst leaders to destroy powerful nations - we had Barbarossa and Salahuddin destroyed the Crusaders and then we had others from the British and french to lose their Empires and recently Brezhnev to destroy the USSR by ISlam and now we have the FORTUNE of Bush to destroy American militarily and economically - 911 is the cause of the US economic collapse and the drownin of the $ ... I vote Mcain in the US election then US will be dead and buried FOREVER

[barbarossa0067]

I agree. I am American, and I agree with you Salahuddin.  There is a silver lining in this. I think the American empire is now listing. Finally. I am happy every day I see the dollar fall and when I hear that people in Buenos Aires don't even carry dollars anymore. They carry Euros to protect themselves because it is stable. I left America because I was sick of the fat, lazy, "let's emulate Hitler, but pretend we are not" mentality. Peace to you! ;D

[StolzerMoslemDer2te]

9/11=Inside Job

w w w(dot) ZEITGEISTMOVIE (dot)com

[filmoni]

what a terrible president... the people need to study before they vote... otherwise they will continue to screw things up.

[jerkinp]

All Americans are murderer's and this ones a thief...

-MADTV

[barbarossa0067]

Some Americans (but very few), hate our foreign policies strongly enough, that we left the country, never to return. With the invasion of Afghanistan, I left for Germany, and will never return. I am looking forward to the day I get to trade my American citizenship in for European citizenship in 20 months. We do not have a right to treat other nations like this.

[John42Live]

Oh great what a future with ass-holes and dickheads.

-John

[Stealth3]

Bush is a war criminal, the US government is full of shit, and the Americans fooled by it are dumb idiots.

[Pleblian]

Yes Stealth3, I whole hartily agree with you...

I fear that in 2 to 3 years from now, the American people are going to find out about how illegal this war really was. The sad thing is won't give two flying shits as long as Paris Hilton and other sparkly objects are around.

[DarkerOfTheMind]

I agree. I have to say the only thing that I really can't stand about the American life style is that people will always be worshiping some slut with a wealthy father. If the American people were to get their heads out their asses and stop worshiping the red carpet we could be a much stronger nation (not in an imperialistic sense) as far as our policies go both foreign and domestic.

[K103FMAN]

@Stealth3 Americans dont care what europeans think

[moali68]

great stuff