Liberation as you just alluded came at the very high cost and i would argue that many people in iraq are still paying that cost with the main risks and insecurity is in the own life so are you saying that it was all worth it historically that it was the prize acceptable for iraq to pay to be free from tyranny. Well the thing is i dont think its a qantas fireable argument to say this is worth a dollar not worth it in terms of we we dont look at a bad way what is clearly sure is iraq was living under. Very tour and they looked at the dictator who who was holding to power at whatever cost and we have seen the cost of hundreds of thousands killed we called in to an aide to year bloody war that more than a 1000000 iraqis were killed in the war as well as 1000000 or plus iranians were killed on the did the rest of you see in the regions all to do with the regime. We have seen so its not a comparable situation room one for one but for iraqis they enjoy a lot more freedom than they ever have a
A long while to come to worlds apart 17 years ago de walt was convulsing with protest against the war in iraq one even sat a Guinness World record for the largest on to war rally ever but now theres 3000000 in drone nor the over 13000000 protesting across the globe could stall the Bush Administration from launching Operation Iraqi freedom which would lock up the country in fratricidal violence for years to calm whats really take for iraq to recover from at all to discuss that im now joined by a far higher. Chairman of the Iraq Advisory Council and a former political advisor to iraqi president s mr aldrin its so good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. Thank you for having me now next month as you just heard me mention will mark the 70th anniversary of the Bush Administrations decision to invade your country on false pretenses and while nobody these days there is to defend the rationale for that why i think there is still a discussion going on about whether the american in
Childhood. The black flags of the Islamic State no longer fly over iraqs 2nd largest city. The all noori mosque blown up by us and 2017 is now being reconstructed. In 2014 yes leader abu bakar all baghdadi came to the mosque to announce the creation of the Islamic State caliphate. The effort by the iraqi army and its allies to drive out of the city caused heavy damage and killed or wounded thousands of civilians now 2 years later many local residents still have not recovered from the effects of the war theyve suffered too much and their grief cannot be measured. More than 35000 people live at this camp for displaced persons in the town of hamam. About 20 kilometers south of mosul. Most of the residents are alleged to have ties to iowa spiders. There are a number of orphans and widows here. One of those widows lives in this tent with her 5 children her name is rose. Her husband was killed in an air raid on a mosque in mosul he was the militias in our prayer leader there will says he did
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