Why did we Invade Iraq?- Nation Building

[Jay26Scott]

The U.S. doesnt just simply play world police. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[Dannymartialarts]

we started bombing iraq in the 90s because we wanted to take kuwait and we started our mass murder on their citizens in the 2000s because iraq started trading their oil for euros instead of dollars. we are not fighting for liberation. this is an oil economy. educate yourself. ever vet ive heard from has said he is ashamed of everything he did in iraq and thats why we lose just as many soldiers to suicide as the war itself. in fact, their army refused to fight back. we r fighting civilians ONLY

[TheGefro]

@aidan24100 We didnt kill 500,000 people the Taliban and Saddams evil regime did! It wasnt peaceful Saddam was killing the Kurds in the north and the sh-i-tes in the south! We went in to over throw the evil regime and give freedom to Iraq but the rest of the world didnt want to help the Iraq people they didnt give a shit what happend over there (france)

[TheGTIAMHIJKLM15]

can we invade mexico next, seriously its worse down their

[TheGefro]

@TheGTIAMHIJKLM15 I dont feel like taco's.....how about france i could go for some chocolate pizza! Then after that we can invade russia's vodka celler!

[bboyevanb]

@aidan24100 i dont think we should be in iraq but the us didnt kill those many people and we r giving them freedom

[asleeperj]

It's not democracy, IT"S A REPUBLIC. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. To promote democracy is to go AGAINST the constitution.

[OriginalLemming]

We still never got Osama. That fucker is still running around.

Why didn't we just focus all of our efforts on him, then take care of this Hussein shit? We got all our priorities fucked up.

[1misanthropist]

Saying that every nation should have democracy because the U.S. does is like saying I'm cold so everybody should have to put on a sweater or my favorite color is red so everybody else's favorite color should be red also. We absolutely refuse to mind our own business and the government demands that you be the one to pay for the governments desires. WOW ! WHEN i'M FORCED TO PAY FOR SOMETHING AGAINST MY SELF INTEREST OR OWN FREE WILL OR ELSE SUFFER PUNISHMENT THEN YOU KNOW SOMETHINGS WRONG !!!

[zetetic0void]

I couldn't watch the full video because it stalled early on. Has anyone considered the fact that Saddam Hussein switched his oil sales from US dollars to Euros in November 2000? Why should this matter? Pretty much all oil sales from oil nations are done using US dollars - this props up the value/demand for US dollars. Iraq was changed back to US$ after invasion. Iran has also started some Euro sales and Venezuala had talked about it. The US$ value hinging on a monopoly for oil sales.

[zetetic0void]

part 2 ... people in the Bush govt. wanted into Iraq and right after 911 they jumped on that as the "New Pearl Harbour" (that would quicken their agenda) the Neocons "Project for a New American Century" website's .pdf file "Rebuilding America's Defenses" mentioned (I translate that as "Building up Western World's grab for more World Power"). Also, Afghanistan was partially for Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, 2002 (which UNOCAL company had been negotiating with Taliban until 1998 but that ended)

[mrdaym]

Why did we Invade Iraq?

- Because Saddam wasn't killing civilians at a high enough rate.

[SmittySmitha]

Every Iraq vet i've talked to has given me the same answer (and I agree) "Because the Iraqi people deserve freedom".

[janhelfeld]

@SmittySmitha Americans should not be forced to pay in blood and money for Iraqi freedom. Volunteering is Okay.

[ramazone2]

@janhelfeld I second that notion and would like to add that no one should be forced to pay in blood and money for Iraqi freedom. Anyone who's done enough research will find that it's really for the freedom of the people who are, by and large, running the planet, to further dominate.

[razerfish]

@SmittySmitha

I'm a vet. I agree that Iraqi's should have the freedom the create for themselves. I don't agree on us forcing it on them by gunpoint or that we have to right to invade others under that phony pretense.

[asleeperj]

@SmittySmitha So do the people in the UK, Somalia, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, China, Do we need to spend our money, and lives to protect them? Even though our freedoms are eroding? It is just this simple. If we retain our freedoms, people will struggle to get here, through that struggle they will make themselves better. Leave all other nations alone. Assuming you are a constitutionalist, where in the constitution does it grant the federal government the power to invade, without consent

[SmittySmitha]

@asleeperj The constitution specifically gives congress the power to declare war. You are uneducated. It's just this simple: Helping the Iraqi people is the right thing to do. I know, shocking. The right thing to do. Saddam Hussein killed 800,000 people with chemical weapons of mass destruction. That is not okay.

[asleeperj]

@SmittySmitha You are right, the constitution states that the congress declared war. One problem with your statement. WW2 was the last declared war by the congress. Ooops looks like you are the one who is uneducated.

[SmittySmitha]

@asleeperj Congress approved Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, etc. Look it up and learn some history you dumb ass.

[asleeperj]

@SmittySmitha Congress did not declare war. I am right. You are wrong.

They may have approved different sanctions, but did not declare war. The United States hasn't declared war since WW2. We have also LOST every entangling military operation sense.

[brethart7]

"we" invaded Iraq to remove Saddam Hussien, and his regine ..no hes dead so its done! soo why are we still there? Freedom??? That is isnt our Choice!!! Its another countries choice. "war on terror" Wtf! theres terror all around the world! not just Iraq sooo wtf are we there for...could it be control of oil? control of opuim?

[pbkilla619]

@brethart7 the US government does not want to look like failures thats why their still there oh and opium and oil are apart of it

[DCOME94]

fuck this guy. there were never any WMDs in iraq. i hate the US gov for this.

[smarfling]

6:58 LOL even when he hugs it looks like torture!

[PNACATTACKdotCOM]

Great job Jan :)

[rosen00000]

the american govorment needs to cool its ass before some of the countrys unite and kick it so hard it will be nothing more then a smoking crater. So they have weapons of mass destruction and they dont see us charging at them now do they ?

[philippines1998]

미국인들이 뚱뚱한 엉덩이 아르!!!

[thebooyah999]

There was to many lies which pulled us into a war, but i beleive this was for oil and ecomical issues. The USA is not to blame but foreign policy is. They pulled the UK into a war and Tony Blair lied to us. Big decisons like this are for the nation but not for a few. A quote i like to recall by Winston Churchill "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Is true. This then goes back to things like Al Quaeda, funded by the USA

[BOSHANKO]

hah you think liberating people is blowing up shit and bringing in tanks and weapons? hahah we created alqueda and the taliban. we gave the taliban millions. and then when we took iraq in desert strom we took over all goverment control and left everything else unattended. so all of iraq rioted and destroyed their own culture.

[BOSHANKO]

no the first was because dick cheney and his little goverment friends made contracts that gave them money to "rebuild" irag. and Halaburton (probably didn't spell it right) was in charge of that, as well as many other big companies, and goverment related functuions. and that my friend is what people like to call war profiting

[AceofDimonds0]

"the iraqi regime was a threat to the united states" but they hadnt done anything to us yet. you cannot invade a country because they "might" use weapons of mass destruction.

thats like a murderer saying "i had to kill this person they might have hurt me in the future."

[davitodude]

@AceofDimonds0

OMG! I make this point to people all the time and they just don't get it. And now we're in Afghanistan with 10,000+ troops and personal fighting roughly 100 Al Qaeda members. Wouldn't it make more sense to use the 500 billion dollars we spend on war protecting our borders and making sure suit case bombs and dirty bombs could never make it into this country. Or is that just too easy for us?

[coleyman201]

@davitodude The 500 billion is peanuts compared to the oil they are stealing whilst they are there.

[davitodude]

@coleyman201

I can't really comment on the price of oil as there are so many different things that can directly effect it's cost no one thing can completely change it. If you're implying though that were in Iraq for the sole purpose of stealing oil you're completely misled. If that were true at all Russia would be all over us.

[coleyman201]

@davitodude Just look at the facts. I have a video with all documented facts in regards to 9/11 and Iraq etc. It's been proven beyond a doubt with the U.S government's own documented evidence.

Anyway just out of curiosity.. Why do you think they invaded Iraq? Don't tell me you actually fell for that gimic of "searching for weapons of mass destruction". Because if they really were searching for them they would be in Iran where they have admitted possesing them.

[coleyman201]

@davitodude Cost of oil? It costs a frickin atom bomb! Do you have a car? You should know that easily enough if you did.

Look at the facts. It has already been proven with the US governments own documented evidence that the invasion of Iraq was for oil and nothing else. It has been proven that the US government let 9/11 happen in order to have an excuse to invade (even though Iraq had no connection to it whatseoever?) and people believe it just like you.

[davitodude]

@coleyman201

There was an agreement in Bush's cabinet that they would improve western access to Iraq oil by military means. "President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains a destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to the US 'military intervention' is necessary."

I'm still not sure how I can make the link to the invasion of Iraq to the theft of oil. Point me in the right direction.

[coleyman201]

@davitodude I'm going to pm you a video and it's like an hour long, but if you really want all the facts documented then you will find it all out on there.. In fact he offers anyone who can prove he lied a thousand dollars.. Proves 9/11 was set up. Proves they went to Iraq for oil alone and some other stuff like the CIA dealing drugs and pearl harbour etc.. Very intresting if you ever get the time to watch it all

[supery00n]

@davitodude If you see a trail of ants, you can either kill them as they come into your room, or call pest control and get rid of the problem at its root source.

[FriendOfBorat]

Jan should be banned from interviewing any public official because I don't think that official would ever have a chance of being re-elected if that interview were seen by the majority of that official's constituents. Haha - what a great thing that would be...weed out the morons in this government, one by one. His interviews have a Borat slant to them...only bury these idiots alive with in your face frankness.

[kiwi6461]

the 2nd reason is understandable but the 1st reason isn't

did they treaten us???? if they didn't then there in no reaon to be there and for the 2nt reason we could do that peacfully

[jsyc07]

jan - good stuff but why do you only have partial clips of your interviews? Where can I see the full interviews?

[michaelpshipley1]

he sells the full interviews on dvd.

[ikemkrueger]

"We provide freedom by force."

For me that sounds like Orwells new speak..

[possenti]

Well done, Jan. Keep up the good work.

[soundmoneyfan]

I'm so glad to see Jan back around!! The people he used to interview know better than to let him interview them these days, the stakes are too high to break the left-right paradigm. Thanks for this Jan!! Seriously, we need you now more than ever!!!

[PennEmes]

"Jan's logic." - The quintessential oxymoron.

I'm really done now.

[PennEmes]

Helfeld's tedius and sententious ravings add nothing to any debate. His use of elenchus is more mirth than anything else. If Socrates came back and viewed these insipid videos, he'd head for the nearest CVS (Dupont Circle?) and take a double dose.

I've already taken too much time and space. I'm done. Thanks.

[PennEmes]

Not to betray some personal stuff, but my forbearers were slaves. This country sinned and made up for it. We've helped countries both miliarily and other ways(see Bush's success with African health issues.)

So stop with the feigned outrage over the constitution. We're not going to invade Canada to double our territory."Way smarter than the rest of you"? Having more intelligence than Helfield and a couple of posters on this board is not necessarily proof of superior intelligence.

[PennEmes]

OK, I'll bite. I've failed before; I can do it again.

Think of our inaction in Darfur and action in Nazi Germany. What would the world look like without the success of the American military since our founding?I believe that many haters of America in distant countries would love to live here and experience all of our ills. Are we always right? - Not exactly, but to disagree with nation-building is akin to our president's misuse of indefinite articles in his non-teleprompter syntax.

[PennEmes]

OK, Jan, ignore Darfur and other places around the world. With your coruscatingly brilliant logic, most of us would be speaking German today, and you, alas, wouldn't be speaking at all.

[mintyman89]

Whoah whoah penn, you are obviously way smarter than the rest of us. Hold on. Let me try to follow what you just said.

He didn't talk about Darfur, so that has something to do with Germany, and apparently Jan would be dead? Because of what? What are you even saying?

[captainyoinksac]

Attacking Jan's logic without putting forward a logical argument, FAIL.

[janhelfeld]

"We" means our country - the USA. I am not a collectivist.

[mcluvin135]

@janhelfeld ok but when he uses we...hes not including himself....right

[stylish0792]

@janhelfeld you are an idiot

[modelmark]

'we' are confronted with the choice to invade or not to invade?

'we' ? hahaha

every time Obama hears you say 'we', he pushes your big tax increase/freedom decrease button. He does not listen to your arguments after he hears you say 'we'. He knows you are on his side.

[heymisterderp]

Jan is the Man.

[BRYAN351]

Excellent stuff, Jan. Please continue to confound the traitorous scum with logic and the Constitution.

[rahgozar44]

You could not take a risk because there may be teh possibility of mass distruction weapons ,thanks bush for liberating iraq

[Nickelodeon2002]

just like the enemy is ruling our country.....

[bluecactii]

Sorry Jan, "we" did not invade Iraq. It was not "our" decision. And "we" will not have to make the decision again. The US gov't made this decision independently of your or my opinion. "We" had no choice in the matter.

[Galbrechtk]

@bluecactii did you vote??? If you did you can't say anything because who you voted for more than likely was for the war President Bush is not the only person who can start a war it takes fiftey percent of the 435 members in the house and the other fifty percent of 100 members of the senate . And if you didn't vote don't even comment on this because you lost your opinion!!!

[bluecactii]

@Galbrechtk My vote has absolutely no baring on the actions of the president or Congress.

[Herv3]

@bluecactii We are going to be paying for through taxation for generations.

[bluecactii]

@Herv3 I will only be paying for one generation.

[Herv3]

@bluecactii Yes, you can only pay for your lifetime, but the debt will also be payed by the next generation and perhaps even more to come. This doesn't include future debts accrued by more government spending for wars in the future. Perhaps you don't have any ties with family blood into the future. I still care about future generations.

[jonnysport89]

Real news, Real interviews, its all right here on his channel and other channels. The truth is out there.

[Kurtyoungblood]

Good ending!

[dtmbcorp]

I'm going to order your DVDs one day, because I just can't get enough of ya!

[MrBankRuns]

We the People have choices in America?

[odin422]

Keep up the fine work Jan.

[odin422]

hahahaha