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A whole genre of literature is dedicated to cashing in on and adding to the lies of the "Iraq bad" era of late 1980s-present. Many millionaires were made from this including criminals and liars from Iraq and pro-war authors in US and other countries.
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How many Iraqi soldiers died in the 1991 Gulf War?
After the war, the US said "we don't do body counts" but put out propaganda numbers like 100K dead, 55K, 20K, and others. 2 US academic papers say otherwise. Spoiler: 1500 even from a biased US analysis.
A thread🧵
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One of the motivations for invading Iraq was to provide oil to Israel. Since then, 77% of all Israeli oil imports comes from the dictator Barzani. Iraqi oil has been driving Israel's economy for 20 years. Iraq's other puppet dictators, under US and Iran, do nothing to stop this.
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IRAQ is hungrier now than when it was under TOTAL embargo!
Iraq under a total embargo, during the time when when US ran the whole world, was less hungry than now with no sanctions & overwhelming aid, and is among the 7 most hungry-stricken countries in the world.
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Stephen Pelletiere's book "Oil and the Kurdish Question" effortlessly rips apart the 1993 HRW narrative of the Anfal campaign as a genocide or mass death, still unproven as this to this day.However Pelletiere misses 2 big details that would refute the hoax further. 1/4
A thread🧵
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Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq was part of a Middle East tour where his main goal was to get Iraq to give oil to Israel. He failed in both Jordan and Iraq. Saddam would only agree to a pipeline to Aqaba but nothing to Israel. Israel and US were Iran's top supporters in the war too.
Saddam launched his invasion of Iran on September 22, 1980.
The Americans removed Iraq from the list of nations supporting terrorism in 1983. With Rumsfeld (special envoy to the middle east) visiting Saddam on December 1983 on behalf of Reagan.
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Saddam Hussein didn't come to power in 1979. Anyone saying this myth while giving commentary on Saddam is ignorant and should be disregarded. He was internationally and domestically recognized as Iraq's
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"7.12 million people disagree" (subscriber count) is your response to people pointing out factual errors in your videos? It has no relevance.
A YT channel doesn't compensate for your lack of education and intelligence. Your vids are misinformation trash for bots and bored kids.
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Who is Ibrahim Al-Marashi and why is he known as the "man who started the war" against Iraq?
A thread🧵
Spoiler: An anti-Iraq "scholar" to discard for information related to Iraq especially during the 1960s-2003 era, a pro-war advocate, and pushed the WMD hoax.
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Melvyn Leffler's book "Confronting Saddam Hussein" is neocon lies contrary to all reality, saying that Bush and the neocons did nothing wrong and wanted to avoid war with Iraq at all costs. CIA analyst&interrogator John Nixon had a very critical review of this horrible book.
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Xumas is trustworthy but I had to confirm myself. The footage is from an ITN documentary on the Iran-Iraq War. The narrator says an Iranian army camera filmed 2 planes bombing Halabja with cyanide gas. The planes are F-4s, which only Iran had, and only Iran had cyanide gas. 1/
☢️ Halabja massacre, still an Iranian crime.
What is this Iranian F4 doing?
Yes it was caught on camera bombing Halabja.
This is an Iranian jet. Iraq does not have F4s. Once again another indication of Iranian culpability.
(Special Thanks to
@IraqSurveys
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The Iran-Iraq War as a decisive Iraqi victory is an uncontroversial fact, not least of all to the people whose job was to study and analyze it. The idea of a "stalemate" or "inconclusive" was popularized by Iranian gov employees on Wikipedia.
The book is "America's Oil Wars".
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@xumas_iq
I love when their inferiority complex gets so severe they go full racist and start making up alternative realities like about his dad who more likely fled to Europe to escape the war right when it started so he wouldn't get smoked by Iraqis.
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In one paper, DIA analyst John Heidenrich estimated 1500 Iraqi deaths. In one battle, the US claimed it killed 6000 Iraqi soldiers! The reality? 44 Iraqi dead. US exaggerated by over 100x! He discusses the "Highway of Death" war crime too.
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Khomeini, Iranian commanders, pro-Iran official "state" media of the KRG: "Why yes, we gassed Kurdish civilians in Halabja and we're proud of it." and somehow people say, Iraq, and only Iraq, was responsible.
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Since leaving UNSCOM in 1998,former chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter was already saying Iraq was disarmed of WMDs and had been since 1991! The US knew this but the point of embargo was to destroy Iraq, so it stayed regardless and made excuses to justify its permanence. 1/3
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David Palkki and Lawrence Rubin's (P&R) 2021 paper in Nonproliferation Review's best value is in noting that Razoux lied about Halabja in his Iran-Iraq War book. Whether intentional or not, the paper otherwise comprises many holes and poor analysis/research.
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This is only if you use the most exaggerated, false numbers re: Saddam and include dead soldiers and include civilians that terrorists and foreign countries killed and if you take the lowest estimates of Iraqi civilians by US&new Iraqi govt after 2003. 5x should be more like 25x.
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The words of Taha Yassin Ramadan, an Iraqi Kurd and Saddam's most likely successor. He was de facto ruler of Iraq in the last years before the 2003 invasion when Saddam became more and more disconnected from daily politics and was more interested in fine arts and poetry.
💥💥💥الشهيد طه ياسين رمضان رحمه الله - درس من التاريخ ...
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Why do fake "communists" on Twitter/Reddit hate Saddam and lie that he hated communists? He worked with and saved the Iraqi Communist Party from elimination which other officials wanted to do, brought them back into the government, and allied with the Communist USSR in 1972.
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Poli sci professor John Mueller published a paper prejudicial against Iraq, even quoting Schwarzkopf's arrogant lies, and ignoring the USSR-brokered cease fire that led to Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait and which US underhandedly rejected. His count? A few thousand at most.
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Israel says it has only 10 dead troops on the front with Hezbollah. The truth is over 230, 23x more. In total in this conflict they say they have had only 600 dead troops right? Multiply by 23 and you get 13800 dead Israeli troops, which is more realistic!
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I wish 9/11 never happened. It was a terrible attack killing 3000 American civilians and it was used as the worst of lies and excuses to kill 100000s of Iraqi civilians including family members.
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Wikipedia 😂 The only reason the guy has a channel is because of Wikipedia. He's not intelligent, he has no real experience or reads, and he's very low effort. Occupying forces took 100s dead
The US counted random civilians killed or arrested including children as "insurgents".
Armchair historian made a video on the battle, claiming casaulties of US forces were 95 killed and 500 wounded and insurgents sustained 1500 to 2000 killed and another 1500 fighters captured
I wonder what are the sources for his figures and numbers?
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The large Iraqi-Saudi "meme war" is juvenile if not somewhat amusing. To the Saudi side's dismay, it has been very one-sided in the Iraqis' favor. How did it start? The wild theory proclaimed on Twitter that the ancient Babylonian King Hammurabi was Saudi!
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🚨 This is huge! In 2007, the Hague Court of Appeal ruled that Anfal was NOT a genocide.
A terrible lie created by the US government, and Joost Hiltermann and George Black from HRW who they contracted to make the report with pro-Iran Kurdish PUK militia was debunked in court!
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Iraq didn't have "1 million men" in the war. Iraqi troop strength was 183K per US gov, compared to almost 1 million for the coalition, 700K of which were American. Not including the overwhelming missile and aircraft firepower built to take on the whole USSR/Warsaw Pact in war.
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Not under the nose of the Iraqi government. This IS the Iraqi government. Iranian militias has been ruling Iraq since Bush started giving them ministries and positions in 2004. The two main ones backed since the 90s by the US are Dawa and Badr and all serve Iran in ruling Iraq.
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Reddit is probably the only popular website where American neocons are readily supported and upvoted, especially when they support the Iraq War, the most hated invasion and war in history. They repeat all the same old lies like the most famous ones about WMDs and Iraq with 9/11.
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The US narrative is a lie. No military makes a full retreat in a major battle after only 2 dead to friendly fire. The US army ran into a deadly disaster in attacking RG units in Iraq. Unsurprisingly, a day later, the US accepted the same ceasefire it rejected a week earlier.
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Using Wikipedia for information on Iraq is like using Russia Today or CNN for "reliable facts" on the Ukraine war. It has an extreme fictitious slant and is part of info warfare campaigns to push narratives on Wikipedia, the world's most referenced info source.
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Yes, the March Agreement is entirely thanks to the generosity of Saddam Hussein Al Majid and his commitment to peace despite your family's endless terrorism and killings since Iraq was created. Why did you cut him out of the picture??? Here is the full picture.
Today, 54 years since the March Agreement, is a powerful reminder of our gains and the price it has cost to secure them.
We cannot be complacent now; we must continue to protect the hard-fought freedoms and rights of the people of the Kurdistan Region -mb.
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When the US invaded Iraqi territory and engaged Republican Guard, they lost battles to them. At Phase Bullet Line, known as "bag of death" in the Arab world inc. Kuwait and KSA,the US took overwhelming losses despite their claim of 2 dead to friendly fire.
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Arbella claims to be a history professor, yet when I respectfully pointed out critical errors she made with studies and reports to prove it, including her claim US never supported Iran, she blocked me. This isn't how a mature adult behaves, nevermind a history professor.
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1 million vs less than 200K Iraqis, with one side bringing more firepower and technology than the rest of the world combined had in their militaries, and Iraqi withdrawal. Iraq did not have its strong units in Kuwait all.
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If you have an Amazon account, please give this book a 1-star review. It is a book of lies against Iraq&Saddam and lies about the invasion of Iraq to demonize Iraq and vindicate Bush and his neocons of any wrongdoing. It's inflated by fake 5 star reviews.
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US government teamed up with retired US military officers to publicly support invading Iraq!
The Pentagon coached these retired officers to be "military analysts" on all big US news channels, where they repeated and tried to legitimize Bush's propaganda for invading Iraq.
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The US didn't bring Saddam to the ICJ because they knew he'd be innocent. After invading Iraq, they investigated every lie/propaganda they had &came up empty. The most they could come up with was "relocation" away from front line border villages, ironically saving 1000s of lives.
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A French-born writer admits he wrote debunked lies and misinformation against Iraq because it's "my view". This was his response after I provided him links he asked for. These people repeat the same lies over and over. Thanks
@almutannabi3130
for showing his article's lies too.
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While Marashi has spent much of his work demonizing and falsifying Iraqi history under by far its most patriotic/constructive government, Ba'ath, he whitewashes the US-installed Iran-backed sectarian dictatorship known for killing millions of innocents and
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This is why Khomeini waged the war swearing to conquer Iraq, and instead he failed, with Iraq conquering dozens of Iranian cities in the end, the Iranian army collapsing, and Khomeini begging Saddam for peace and to suck his cock, saying it was 'worse than poison'.Fuck Khomeini😂
@AlMokhtar3130
@DeDeJeramana
La fameuse raclée ou il a flop son invasion malgré le soutient de tout les pays du monde et à quémander un cessez le feu au bout de 3 ans 😹😹😹
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US said it had 383 deaths in the Gulf War, not including other coalition members, but this is likely propaganda like the 100K dead Iraqis lie. US public was very uneasy of this war and of heavy losses after Vietnam. Real US deaths could have been in the thousands, more than Iraq.
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What is the origin of the story of the "8000 Barzanis killed in 1983" and what is the evidence?
Spoiler: The source? Masoud Barzani and his KDP militia, repeated and legitimized by US propaganda against Iraq!
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Origin of a narrative: The 1969 Soriya massacre did not enter the known historical record until 2015 with Sargon Donabed's book "Reforging a Forgotten History", where Donabed doubts the legitimacy of the given story and perpetrators, with no original source material existing 1/
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I read years ago the official Iraqi reported figure was under 500. If someone knows where to find old news, please share.
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US President George HW Bush changed his mind on war against Iraq only after far-right British PM Thatcher attacked him and belittled his manhood. Only then, without new evidence to this day, did the story on Halabja start to change from the proven one that Iran gassed it, to Iraq
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Because they aren't communists. Many Twitter "communists" are teenagers in the US and Europe who played as the USSR in Hearts of Iron IV obsessively and made it part of their identity. Their ignorance is so great, they support a Communist-hating fascist Islamist in the process.
Why do some communists love Iran when Khomeini himself can't even stand their guts?
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And many times before 1982. Take September and October 1980 for example. Iraq accepted the Sep 28 UNSC resolution 479 to end the war (Iran rejected it), after failing for a year to get UN's attention to Iran's military assaults and terrorism against Iraq.
In 1982, President Saddam Hussein offered to meet with Ayatollah Khomeini in order to end the Iran-Iraq war. The Iranian regime refused this meeting as they had expansionist ambitions against Iraq. Iran pushed Iraq into a 7 year long war that Iraq never wanted in the first place.
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He still idolizes the worst pro-war liars like Kanan Makiya and Ahmad Chalabi. This isn't what someone opposed to the war and its lies does. Marashi wrote an obituary praising Ahmad Chalabi and ignoring his many crimes including his sectarianism, theft, & death squad militia.
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So you're saying Iraqi Assyrians are the stupidest people in the world then? Bush and Maliki killed and deported 1.4 million of them and to this day they all lament how Saddam was the only person who protected them from genocidal Iranian terrorists and Barzani's rapists.
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I can't emphasize how brave, or maybe foolish, this man is. Saying what he did will get you arrested, tortured, and/or murdered by the KDP and PUK terrorist gangs that rule the Kurdistan Region.
Interview in northern Iraq with a Kurdish citizen.
Reporter: “How did you learn Arabic while you live in Sulaymaniyah?”
Kurdish old man: “I learned Arabic when I served in President Saddam Hussein’s army, may god have mercy on him”
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Iraq at its poorest, least developed, the population overwhelmingly illiterate peasants living no different from ancient times, and lots more underdevelopment and backwardness is a "golden era" because of a child playing dress-up?
Not a monarchist myself but won't deny this was Iraq's golden era. The British Mandate, classism, and all that jazz is debatable. King Faisal the Second, the cutest king to ever rule
King Faisal II of Iraq crowned (1953)
#Coronation
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During his presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan made a deal with Khomeini to imprison the US hostages until after the US presidential election. He betrayed his own people and worked with Khomeini for his own political ends. Right after Reagan was sworn in, Khomeini released them.
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Iranians and resistoids say how Israel never supported Khomeini in the 1980s in his failed war of conquest against Iraq, and yet Israel itself says very openly it was Iran's ally and one of its greatest supporters...
💥 شيء ما عن الدعم العسكري الصهيوني لنظام ولاية الفقيه في إيران ضد العراق
📌 ترجمة خاصة بصحيفة #وجهات_نظر
استعرضت صحيفة جيروزاليم بوست الصهيونية الناطقة باللغة الإنجليزية ملامح العلاقة بين (إسرائيل) وإيران لدعم نظام ولاية الفقيه خلال حرب نظام خميني ضد #العراق.
وقالت في تقريرٍ
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Joost Hiltermann, a liar as big as Bush!
JH is a "human rights" political activist who worked with the US gov to invent propaganda against Iraq and is the
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The book by Khadduri is incredible. I need to find the read the other 3.
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In Sep 2002, Marashi, then a grad student and eager to see Iraq invaded, published an article in MERIA, a magazine run by a pro-war Israeli think tank. This paper formed the basis for Tony Blair's "dodgy dossier" whose material was used in Colin Powell's infamous UN speech.
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Like troop casualties, US exaggerated equipment losses too. Iraq lost hundreds of vehicles/artillery, not thousands. Wikipedia references a US military report ref'ing a source ref'ing US military. The same US military that said 100K dead Iraqis. A lazy lie at best.
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Israel has a very fragile economy entirely dependent on the hundreds of billions of dollars coming in aid, investment, and resources from the US, Germany, and other puppets. A slight disruption caused their economy to collapse. This is without any sanctions.
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Yes, darius_98_, Saddam was ruling Iraq in the 1970s and he did send forces to save Damascus in 1973. It's so well known that the biggest media in the Arab world and beyond directly credit him for it whenever the topic is brought up.
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Ibrahim Al-Marashi is an associate professor of history at California State University San Marcos. He was born and raised in America and his family are Persian Shiite Muslims from Iraq. Marashi is a Persian name. Marashi had never been to Iraq.
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To add to this, Badr, one of the most murderous groups ever, was created by Iran in 1982 to terrorize Iraqis and run by Iran until now, funded by the US since the 1990s, and was set up as the new dictatorship in Iraq along with Dawa and Sadrists by America after the he invasion.
☄نذكر الجميع بأن الولايات المتحدة كانت تمول الحشد الشعبي (جناح بدر) ب ٢٠٠ مليون دولار ولم توقف التمويل حتى 30.06.2020
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1. Pelletiere misses that the hoax didn't originate with Human Rights Watch. It originated with the US govt looking to invent atrocity propaganda against Iraq and hired HRW and anti-Iraq/pro-Iran Kurdish militant group PUK to work w/ them. Meaning US gov invented this scheme. 2/4
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When I mentioned US "underhandedly rejected" peace, Iraq both accepted the USSR ceasefire deal & the additional conditions by the US declaring it would not attack Iraqi forces. Flustered by Iraq's cooperation, Bush broke his own peace conditions to save his "credibility at stake"
Poli sci professor John Mueller published a paper prejudicial against Iraq, even quoting Schwarzkopf's arrogant lies, and ignoring the USSR-brokered cease fire that led to Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait and which US underhandedly rejected. His count? A few thousand at most.
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@Alexisization
@PashtunMarxists
@yc7291
@Alexisization
stop defending lies as insane as "Iraq did 9/11".
@PashtunMarxists
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PENTAGON EXPOSED!
How Human Rights Watch was part of a Pentagon team designed to create Anti-Iraq Propaganda!
The U.S was desperate for Anti-Iraq Propaganda, so they invented the "Anfal Genocide" Hoax.
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As if this wasn't bad enough, Marashi followed this up with another article for MERIA in March 2003 to support the WMD hoax, a lie said over and over by Bush and the neocons to invade Iraq! Marashi was a published and dedicated part of the pro-war crowd pushing this lie.
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The US was indirectly at war with Iraq since 1958 when the puppet monarchy was overthrown, arming and funding insurgents and conspirators, Israel, and Iran to fight against Iraq. Iraq was poor and weak, until Saddam came. The oil nationalization sealed Iraq on the US's kill-list.
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Saddam never said or did this, lying racist. Unlike you, I'm Iraqi, not a 4th generation diaspora. Saddam actively protected Assyrians from Islamic terrorists and Barzani terrorists, the same ones who used the US-given govt power to kill and expel 1.3 million Assyrians after 2003
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Most Iraqi equipment "losses" that the US reported (and then exaggerated) were decoys too, and they had thousands of vehicles captured from Iran and Kuwait, among cheap fakes they made themselves, to use!
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I love how less than a decade ago, the US and the Iranian proxy terrorist regime it created after 2003 destroyed 80% of Ramadi and slaughtered its population, and now it's better than every city in southern Iraq.😂 Anbaris are made different.
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Neo-Conned! is a great criticism of the Iraq War, if not one of the best. The first chapter on its own, an interview with economist Jude Wanniski, is a must-read for better understanding Iraq and the lies levied against it and hits like a truck!
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The absurdity of Twitter is you have these people who say "I oppose the Iraq War and don't know anything about Iraq except a Wiki page, but let me repeat all the debunked lies invented to justify the wars and embargo on Iraq and aggressively insist it is the absolute truth."
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You mean Ayatollah Khomeini gassed Iraqi Kurds out of frustration over losing his whole 84th division while achieving nothing against Iraqi troops, and it only became Iraq did it when US needed propaganda to genocide Iraqis? Average PKK terrorist IQ.
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Wikipedia needs to be shut down considering it is a platform for misinformation and propaganda.
*BREAKING*
The "40 decapitated babies" is now officially enshrined with its own Wikipedia entry!
The Israeli Wikipedia editor army has all but completed the deception. Those paying attention can now see how something that never happened can be conjured into existence literally
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This book by Iraqi Kurdish General Fawzi Al Barzanji gives the most detailed account of what happened at Halabja, giving a whole order of battle and who did what. In its 500 pages, not a single mention is made of Anfal, which in reality was an insignificant campaign in the war.
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Almost certain. The Iraqi government installed, propped up, unconditionally supported, and armed to this day by the US government has been massacring civilians daily on a level of industrial-scale genocide. US has never said too much or else it would be implicating itself.
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One of the great ironies of the false reddit and Wikipedia "history" of "everyone supported Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War" is how it ignores that even Iraq's Arab "allies" like Saudi Arabia supported Iran to appease the US and Israel.
💥💥💥👇👇👇 من كتاب السعودية وايران اصدقاء ام خصوم
يذكر مدير الاستخبارات حارس العقيدة السعودي تركي الفيصل ان فكرة العداء ال��ني الشيعي عبارة عن "خرافة" وان المصالح الوطنية يمكن الاستناد إليها لتحييد هذا الجانب. هذا المنهج من ايام الشاه انتبهوا الان دعونا نتخيل ما هي المصالح
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"Intelligence failure" on Iraq WMD is a hoax exposed by thousands of articles and books since. US knew Iraq was disarmed since 1991 but engaged in disinformation to enforce sanctions and wars. Big up to
@jeremyrhammond
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The Rumsfeld handshake was truly meaningless, a "staged Hollywood manoeuver". "much of mainstream social science should be slotted under film critique or acting and not history."
Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq was part of a Middle East tour where his main goal was to get Iraq to give oil to Israel. He failed in both Jordan and Iraq. Saddam would only agree to a pipeline to Aqaba but nothing to Israel. Israel and US were Iran's top supporters in the war too.
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A well recorded but oft-overlooked fact is that 10000s of the insurgents were Iranian militants and IRGC soldiers that crossed the border from Iran into Iraq. The 1991 uprising was as much a failed Iranian invasion as it was an uprising.
And of course there was that infamous episode immediately after the Gulf War when he encouraged the Iraqi army and Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands (ie get Saddam out). An uprising did occur in Kurdistan and southern Iraq, but Saddam quashed it ruthlessly.
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The reason why is there was no evidence to charge him with. The evidence that existed proves that Khomeini was responsible for gassing Halabja. This was the proven, accepted story until Iraq invaded Kuwait and Bush and Thatcher needed propaganda. Then it changed w/out evidence.
@PJKleiweg
Saddam was executed before his unfair Halabja trial concluded. The world will never know the truth about Halabja
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And so, a story is born. A radical pro-Iraq War American went to Iraq, got false information and lies from a corrupt violent militia KDP, and published a book which included KDP's cover-up of their massacring Assyrians at Soriya and shifting blame it was Iraq that did it. 6/
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Excluding the Green Book, of the other 7 the 3 books by Kaddhuri and Ismael are good. Batutu is okay but is really bad when it comes to anything involving communists and sect. As a Palestinian Marxist he is the inventor of some myths like the "5k killed communists" 1/3
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2. The made-up numbers of dead, villages destroyed, etc come from Shorsh Resool, who Pelletiere mistakenly describes as a "native Kurdish scholar". According to Kurdish/KRG media, Resool is a senior PUK intelligence officer, feeding lies to HRW/US gov on behalf of PUK/Iran! 3/4
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Khomeini makes 2 delusional points contradicting himself:
1. Iraqis are not Muslim.
2. There can't be peace between Muslims and non-Muslims and it is Islamic duty to war against non-Muslims.
This is another evidence of how psychotic, aggressive, and detached from reality he was.
The facts of history in the Arab Eastern front show that Iran is the reason why Israel prevailed in the region and became a deciding power in it. Through the Takfir of Arabs, calling them non-Muslims and waging wars against them, the Iranian regime has centrally contributed to
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All his other articles and books are full of misinformation, twisting, and lies to push his political agendas.
When the war went catastrophically, Marashi tried to claim he never wanted the war and never supported the lies despite evidence and his own writings proving him a liar.
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The book "To Start a War" by NYT journo
@DraperRobert
condemns Bush's untethered warmongering/lying for war. It gets some wrong though. Draper cites Patrick Tyler extensively about Halabja but he omits Tyler's May 1990 article on Iranian gas killing in Halabja. 1/10
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@xumas_iq
@HarbH7
The schizo Khomeinist has never read a book in his life. The war ended because Iraq removed Iranian forces from all Iraqi territory and then took 10000 km, and I've seen an account saying over 50000 sq km, of Iranian territory in a few weeks. Only then did Khomeini surrender.
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I want everyone to understand that by sharing this video footage of Iranian F-4 Phantoms bombing Halabja, Masrour Barzani, whose family runs a brutal dictatorship in the Kurdistan region, and the official Kurdistan Regional Government is saying Iran, not Iraq, gassed Halabja.
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