4.4 • 777 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 215 minutes
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0:00.0 | When did you go to Iraq? |
0:08.4 | 09 and 10. |
0:09.9 | 09 and 10. |
0:11.0 | Which was an interesting time to be there because they had already started the withdrawal. |
0:14.8 | So I was witnessing, like, them ship out hundreds of tanks and everything else. |
0:19.0 | And at that time, so I was in northern Iraq in Mosul and Telafar. |
0:22.7 | And it was interesting since the United States announced that they were going to stop, |
0:27.1 | or going to withdraw, so they stopped shooting at us. |
0:29.9 | They stopped attacking us because they were like, just let them leave, let them leave. |
0:32.5 | And so attacks were far, you know, few and far between. |
0:35.4 | But it was truly interesting to witness the withdrawal of |
0:38.8 | such all that equipment as well as to see like it kind of like put the nail in the coffin |
0:43.9 | to understand that that whole war was bullshit because it's like we are still there. People were |
0:48.2 | still dying. Not as often as before, because like I said, they were they stopped attacking |
0:52.0 | largely, but not entirely. So it's like every person from there on out that died, it's like, this is literally for nothing. |
0:58.1 | So that, that, that, it didn't occur to me in that exact moment. |
1:01.0 | Once I got home in the years following, I was like, I just started to realize I'm like, |
1:04.5 | this was not okay. |
1:06.5 | How old were you when you went over there? |
1:08.1 | 25 and I was 26 when I left. I was actually, I was kind of older because most people, I mean, there's certainly people |
1:13.2 | older than me, but a lot of soldiers over there, there was a few people he deployed with |
1:16.7 | that weren't even 21. |
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