Iraq TV Music Clips aired during 2nd Iraq War 2003

I recorded this on the Iraqi (governmental) TV program in the first days after hostilities started 20th March 2003. Iraq TV transmissions came to an end in the forthcoming days. Unfortunately I did not record tons of stuff, what I could and should have done. Iraq TV was a free to air program, receivable across Europe via Hotbird satellite @ 13°E.
Unfortunately the picture quality is very bad. Original recording took place on a VHS cassette (as the white horizontal errors tell you), then transfered to a DVD recorder's hard disk, then burned to DVD, now ripped to mpg and finally uploaded 8 years after first recording.

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News & Politics

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• Iraq
• war
• 2003
• TV
• propaganda

[chillcommand]

Please dont comment here in other languages than english. I just deleted something arabic. Sorry for that. But I need to know what people say in their postings here.

[Ansar3raq]

This is real Iraqi and real Iraqi's, not like the idiots ruleing Iraq today.

[Strategichan425]

@bronzeknight2011

This.

The majority of the stock footage of the parades were mostly taken in the late 1980s after the war with Iran, pre-Gulf War to be exact.

The footage with the fella in gray singing shows what 20 years of UN no-fly zones, embargoes and sanctions can do to cripple a huge fighting force like Iraq's.

The Iraqi military was a formidable force, unfortunately Saddumb's decision to invade Kuwait made it a shadow of it's former self after they made war with half the world.

[Strategichan425]

@bachaka61 Heartless, yes; If you think that invading Kuwait and defying UN countless mandates for his forces to leave or face a powerful military coalition was "rational", I don't know...

As for pissing off the West and their allies, they sure gave him plenty of opportunities to end his little tamtrums and 2003 was the last straw.

Saddam and the Ba'ath Party claimed that Kuwait was stealing oil by "slant-drilling", but from a military perspective it was a poor choice to commence an invasion.

[bachaka61]

@Strategichan425 Haha Saddam wasn't dumb. he was really rational and heartless, which allowed him to stay in power for 20 years while pissing off the USA, Israel, Iran & Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc.

But you do know that Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq, do you?

[bronzeknight2011]

@NeutralExistence It was only a matter of time before Iraq would be invaded anyway. The U.S. does not like strong nations, especially nations with resources. I will also add that 20 years of U.N. sanctions stopped Iraq from upgrading their military to a stronger fighting force.

[NeutralExistence]

Their military fatigues are such shit, look like a bunch of lemmings.

The special forces look pretty cool tho, and in the area's of deployment no doubt that gear would work really nice. The light clothing to keep you cool/quiet, and the face mask to help keep the wind/sand out. To bad this military never got to fight the U.S. on fair terms, if the fighting would have stayed on the ground infantry vs infantry it might have been a real war, not a bombardment from 100k+ out, then cleanup.

[TheMuslim765]

What is the name of the song at the end ?

[dolconov]

Fight that traitor don't give any chance to that traitor!!!.. Especially who betrayed you country.... show pride of Arab!! show no mercy to invader and that traitor!!

[taggedmomo]

hhhhhhhhhhh<<<no arabic man ,,,chill,,,,,this army hated it's leader,,,only the republican guard were loyal to saddam,,,,they were 150000 soldier.

[raysfan1231]

how did you come by this footage