2003 Invasion of Iraq (1/2) | Animated History

Sources:
Yossef Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War, 2004
George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed, 1998
Mike Tucker and Charles Faddis, Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq, 2008
Lowry, Richard S. Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq. London: Penguin, 2007.

Music:
Armchair Historian Theme by Zach Heyde
Where Kings Walk by Jon Sumner
Amanecer by El Neon
Spy Game by Jon Sumner
Evening Spies by Sage Oursler
Devil's Disgrace by Deskant
As the Rivers Collapse by Deskant
Sinister Passage by Sage Oursler
Awaited Ambush by Bonnie Grace
The Proving Grounds by Dragon Tamer
Conquer The Battle 3 by Fredrik Ekstroem
King of Lions by Sight of Wonders
Scimitar's Path by Deskant

[nutman]

These animations are practically movies at this point

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
― Aristotle

[DisgruntledHippo]

Understanding how this war was started was one of the main reasons why I got into International Affairs. The motives, the failures, the destruction of the military bureaucracy within the country, the insurgency, the surge, the oil contracts, resilience of the Shia militias, the ignorance of the government when it came to Kurdish regional power, the rise of ISIS.

[rohanghosh]

Iraq : We have Oil
America : You have WMD
Iraq : No we have oil
USA: You need democracy

[jesseestrada]

It is strange hearing a historian talk about a war I fought in when I was 21...

[randycheow]

“As the great warrior poet Ice Cube once said, if the day does not require an AK, it is good”

[marrog]

This war is the real world embodiment of "we did it Patrick, we saved the city!"

[JacF]

Comments section: "America ruined the Middle-East!"
Britain and France: *Sweats in Sykes-Picot*

[izzatomar]

The weapon of mass distruction is just a toyota with an ak47 sticked on the roof...

[WhatAboutYou]

saddam was a routhless dictator and rightfully deserved his fate .
however the post-war regime is way worse than saddam .
I can explain it easily by saying that iraq was ruled by one ruthless dictator before and now it is ruled by multiple warlords each one of them represent the interest of the foreign state that supports them and non of them care about iraq at all, i'm from iraq btw .

[unfitarth]

United Nations: Don’t invade Iraq

United States: How ‘bout I do anyway

[soma]

Some country: we have discovered oil.
USA: Do you wants to bring you some democracy?

[vb]

poland's like finally we get to do some invading

[FelipeJaquez]

Decades of conflict all because a British guy drew shitty map borders

[DinosaurEmperor]

"Intelligence failures"

Well that's one way to put it I guess

[abutabar]

انا من العراق واقول ان جميع دول التحالف الذين شاركو في احتلال وطني هم المسؤولون عن جميع الجرائم التي تحدث بالعراق 😢💔

[schnibbelhenry]

The animations are literally insane. You can tell that a lot of effort has gone into this.

[Hyde-dgef]

"Saddam's last visit was over a decade ago."

Repeat after me.

OVER. A. DECADE. AGO.



I swear, who's the one supplying the intelligence?

[mattai]

Armchair Historian: exists

YouTube: *DEMONETIZED*

[CalvinTennessee]

These videos are awesome. Not only are you cute and easy to like, these videos are direct to the story. No BS, no filler and you don’t try to be a comedian. it’s just a direct to point story. It’s gripping, well animated and spoken. your videos are a training course for how youtube videos should be created.