How Iraq is rebuilding after the US invasion 

I live in Iraq. Iraq has 30% youth unemployment. 40% of Iraqi children live below poverty line according to UNICEF. Iraq has one of the lowest minimum wages in the region ($200) while being one of the richest in resources. Staggering levels of inequality. Iraq suffers from more hunger today than it did under embargo. Downplaying deep-rooted systematic issues is at the expense of the majority of people. We have to see the problem for what it really is in order to fix it. Neoliberalism has plundered Iraq only benefiting foreign corporations and local mafias. Baghdad is filled with malls, private schools and private hospitals. Yet its infrastructure is crumbling with little to no social service. It gets worst in more rural areas where public schools are made from mud. Political change has to happen. It is the reason behind the 2019 protests. Iraqis will own their resources, kick out foreign monopolies and develop again like they did in 1958. It's hilarious how you only interviewed business owners and upper class people in the richest parts of the capital city.

العراق لا يصلح للعيش فقط من مستفاد من هذه الحكومة باقي في البلد

Why they kill women and kids there 🙄 don’t lie in this video 🤨 they did many kills and not say the truth

Thank you and well done..

​@@christopher5846What happened to the Christian population?

Thank you 🇮🇶❤️🇺🇸

@@Iraq_Baghdad Americans still hate you.

Do you know Iraq? Greetings to you from Iraq🇮🇶, my sister

Your government destroyed the future of iraq?

Moving forward while the gear is set on capital R! Smh

Thank u 🇮🇶🇮🇷💖

What's the Netherlands like, would you ever move back to the Middle East or no?

@@ImAgentK For me it’s like a heaven. For now I unlikely move back given the situation in Iran.

Can you explain to me what is happening in Iran?

waealaykum alsalam Peace be upon you. I am a Saudi. When I was sent to study at university in Canada, I decided to live with an Iranian family because they are a people close to us. Thank God, this family has a great favor on me and gave me a real impression of these good people and made me delve deeper into the beautiful Persian culture. Indeed, our region needs stability. The peoples of the region have the most beautiful cultures and morals that... Unparalleled in the world. Greetings to you, my dear brother

Thank you 🇮🇶❤️🇺🇸

Easy to say. Iraq had suffered a lot of because of western war.

I don't regret anything we did but leave that place and people, most people including yourself have no idea what you speak of or what was happening at that time

@@mostlyshorts7462 Wait... are you an American?

@@Iraq_Baghdad 100% and personally have met many Iraqis that have been devastated by their own, I also know of many that would fight today against their own government if given the opportunity

Where were you at both times? Me: TQ 2004 Fallujah 2005 USMC 🇺🇲

U people destroyed the iraq.

@@bubbie3533 May God curse you, how do you live when you shed innocent lives?

Same her. It was Al Asad and Tallil for me....Thinking in going back, this time as a tourist.

@@federicocauhepe142 I had multiple convoys to Al Assad back in 2004 - good times as a truck driver for the Marines.

I imagine that it would be safe…at least safer than it was 20 years ago. (It’s the same thing with say…Colombia…you would be surprised how many people still think Colombia has Cartel violence…which it still does…but are city blocks getting reduced to rubble ? No, they are not) My point is, Countries change, and things _do_ get better.

​@sawtooth808 yeah still doesn't sound good 😂

You are Chaldean living in Babylonia around a new generation of Chaldeans and Assyrians.

It's very nice to hear this. All my best.

As an Iraqi I first would like to thank you for your nice words. Iraqis love foreigners & love to show their hospitality & generosity. Since we lived under a secular dictatorship for many years, the society is secular in some ways, yet the western media usually focuses on the negative side, the extremists, etc. for a specific agenda. There is a large number of Iraqis who don’t pray 5 times a day for example or those who drink alcohol occasionally, we even make our own local branded beer and wine! Iraqis are less strict & more accepting of others, it is truly a unique society, balancing religion with secularism, although it varies from one city to another. The other thing is that many Iraqis are well educated and were brought up in middle class homes, so traditionally respect, ethics and morals were important in the society (although these are becoming less nowadays unfortunately with the middle class shrinking and the rise in nouveua riche & the poor).

nazik sözlerin için teşekkür ederim

@leila_1196 Selamun eleykum!

homeless

Thank u💐

Love Iraq from Türkiye ❤️🇹🇷🇮🇶

امين يارب ولليبيا ايضا يرجع خيرها لاهلها ويرجع فيها الامان والاستقرار

Aamiin. Iraqis deserve peace, happinesss & prosperity.. Salam & love from Indonesia.

Shut up

Thank you. Much love to our Somalian brothers.

Thank to our friend from Somalia.

Iraq isn't building. Foreign capital is building for-profit commodity centres while the poor suffer. We are heading to where Egypt is.

​@@christopher5846unfortunately yes 😢😢😢

@@christopher5846The foreign capital should still pump a lot of funds into the economy which should ultimately benefit the people

@@christopher5846That’s wrong Basra, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah are developing as much as Baghdad also Fallujah Is developing so much and There Is also Karbala Is getting developed buy the mangers of Imam Hussein shrine especially In wilaia which Is the center of Karbala The poor people are decreasing because If you search In the past the families used to have like 10 kids which makes them struggle to live but now you don’t see a family with more than 4 kids because the current generation understands That having more kids than you could offer would lead you to be poor for example my family my father had 9 brothers and sisters and my mom had 8 while our family contains only me and my 2 brothers also In the past people used to have the mindset of either you get a job from the government or you will live broke and that mindset came from living under the government of sadam Hussein and American Invasion and l$l$ which Is literally living under a rock for like 30-40 years but now people understand how could they make business and work with companies not only with government the life in Iraq 20 years ago was like 2/10 but now It’s 7/10 and the current government Is doing a great job there is rebuilding everywhere and In a few years Iraq will be one of your best destinations If not the best😊❤

​​@@christopher5846 iraq is doing as good as it's neighbours and outperforming some, it's even at the same development index as the average south american country,don't try to bring them down with that negative propaganda

غير مرحب بك انت مجرم حرب مثل بايدن وجوش يا لك من شخص وقح

It’s bitter sweet to watch, isn’t it brother?

I’ve been always a fan of your blogs which made me like historical places

Nice to see at least one person on here that is well read!

I agree with you

I was lucky to attend the meeting you're referring to in Houston TX. PM Al-Sudani addressed many of his Iraqi constituency's concerns here in the US and meeting him was delightful.

And people who hold ID outside of Iraq?

@@danielpeters2282they will become wealthy

Thank you. We love our Egyptian brothers.

Welcome to Iraq at any time

thank you i am iraqi

Pay reparations before you're forced to like with Nicaragua.

Yeah and shame on the past governments us had

we are not brothers.

After bombing a nation, today you say brothers? America is a butcher and human rights abuser

Make Iraq Christian again.

​@191snapper are you Gonna force your religion just like you forced it on the black people?

@@Moe00111 How stupid are you, Christianity was not started by white people.

@@Moe00111 Just like islam forced black people to convert themselves or be slave ? Do you know that Christianity was first in Africa before Europe ? Not defending any religion, all of them are just backward ideologies, but get your facts straight

​@@ohk749 Hello Christian Iraqi here :) Check my other comments to see what I think about this ordeal.

Youre more than welcome my arab brother

@@mohammadalhulli و نِعم بك و بالعراق. شكرا لك ❤️

@@Ahmed-pf3lg على راسي اخوي

العراق افضل الدول العربية في الشرق الاوسط واجمل البلدان وهم اجمل من بلدك ايضاً اتمنى لكم الازدهار نحن الشعب لا ندفع المال للكهرباء انها مجانية على الحكومة وكذلك الدولة تعطي لكل فرد لا يملك شهادة او لا يعمل 200 دولار شهرياً وكذلك تعطينا الدولة حصة تومينية كيس كبير من الطحين وكيس كبير من السكر والعدس وكل المعدات التي تحتاجها كذلك رواتبنا قوية جداً لقد تخرجت 2022 بتخصص هندسة معمارية وراتبي مليون ونص شهرياً

@@Rawzaaldulimiy I don’t understand, sorry

I dobout anyone who have already establish a life for himself or herself would ever want to get back to iraq

welcome to Iraq anytime 💖

baghdad is built where nimrod founded babylon. it has been built & destroyed 7 times.

It's ran by a American-installed Islamic dictatorship

Iraq before 2003: Secular Socialist republic and best country in the region Iraq after 2003: western-installed Islamic dictatorship worst country in the region About fundamentalism...

@@christopher5846 كفاك يا عربوط

​@@christopher5846where are the weapons of mass destruction

Where is the weapon of mass destruction?

​@@newyorkcity5851in pubg😂

That’s because no one talks about what US did in Iraq after the war. Iraq’s biggest threat is Iran

No thanks to America.

Do you condemn the American invasion of Iraq?

Thank you 🙏

Exactly.Same things i have notice in other Arab country. It’s a low grade things to see.

Bro she is a bourgeois liberal who lived outside. Basically a westerner. احنا فخوريين بكل لغاتنا ܚܝܐ ܐܬܘܪ

Doesn't the Iraqi government constantly tell the US to stay?

The Baath Party was very secular

The south is hot, the capital too, the center is mostly mild, and the north is moderate

In terms of security, Iraq has become much better than in the past, but due to tensions in the region, we are still witnessing some events, that is, in the entire Middle East region, not just Iraq.

I am not from Iraq, but I have traveled all over the Middle East. Iraq is a country I visited in 2014 and I went again last year. The changes could be well understood.

It was scheduled a few days ago. Crazy tho

Tension is happening now in the entire Middle East, not just Iraq, because of the Gaza-Israel war

You are welcome from wherever you are and don’t forget to get help and Information from the Iraqi traveler group

I am an Iraqi myself Their been not much differince only in the recent years been a bit of improvement but nothing major

The rebuilding actually started like two years ago and It’s going fast but not that big change like If It was 6.5/10 now It Is like 7/10 It needs like 2 or 3 years until the end of many projects so Iraq could be an 8/10 And be back to a 100% normal country like any other country with Its culture and history

@@darknight00h 🤔

Iraqi here and I bet we were doing better than your country in the 70s and 80s in terms of living standards before sanctions. Don't lecture us.

I also like how you think we have democracy and it is our choice under the current corrupt dictatorship 😂

USA threatens countries to confiscate their government money in all banks over the world if they decide to kick out usa forces :D Or the order their puppets to imprison democratic presidents like in pakistan so they can install their dictator friends for contract deals over ressources. Or if you dont obey they assasinate you or invade you like gadaffi just without law and illegal wars who cares

@@christopher5846 we actually do not have anything near democracy in iraq 🤣😂🙂

The only problem Is neighbors we are literally surrounded by turkey and they are not a big fan of Arabs also we have another great neighbor whose Iran the country who treats Iraq as their battlefield and never heard of America sent a rocket to Iran and really goes to Iran they are all land on Iraqi lands and then they post fake news However we have our third great neighbor whose Saudi Arabia and jordan which are the country that l$l$ came to Iraq from and ops for sadden they are both suna Muslims the haters of shia muslims who represent 75% of Iraqi people However our only victim Is kuwait and that was because ot the mf saddam Hussein they still hate us and try all the possible ways to fight Iraq in politics and through social media but It’s understandable we have to handle It So the last on the list Is syria who’s currently In a war so yeah I wish Iraq Is surrounded buy water like an Island rather than this 6 countries with all respect to the good ones who live In those countries

Thanks. Islamists are US leftovers and stand between us and development.

@@christopher5846 now an Islamphoia?

It can only be a junior partner of Iran or Kuwait when it comes to trade

Yeah thats crap since they have a big port in Um Qasr and building one of the worlds biggest ports as we speak.

Switzerland is also Landlocked

you get an F in geography

They never tried to conquer it and they were never afraid of it. And its no longer Persia but Iran

We the American people don't care about Iran and can't even locate it on a map

I just spent 2 weeks in Iran! Check out my shorts on my 2nd channel: RU-vid.com/uptins

because they are the real aryan.

Today, Iraq pays all international monetary debts and becomes the first Arab country without foreign debts

العراق امن دوله في الشرق الاوسط

Everyone hates saddam except Iraqi people whose family had benefits from saddam government (They are people with no mercy to others they just care about them self being In charge and staying safe while others are dying) and the other people are non Iraqi who got fooled and they think saddam Is some kind of hero or something Any way they are all keyboard warriors because If anyone In Iraq stands for saddam he will be sent directly to jail no matter who he is

If it wasn’t for US sanctions and war, Iraq would still be one of the richest countries in the world-as it was prior to the sanctions that started after the Kuwait invasion. The US set Iraq’s development back by decades. While I disagree with Saddam’s harmful actions in the 80s and early 90s, which also set Iraq back and were also instigated and strongly supported by the US, the reality is after the failure of the (first) Gulf War, Saddam gave up and indicated that he just wanted to govern Iraq in peace (which would have let to prosperity, as well), but the US (and Israel) wanted the Iraqis to suffer, and they wanted Iraqi oil and complacency. All of Iraqi suffering (I.e. millions of dead) and destruction since then is on the US’s hands. That’s what they can “thank” your demonic country for.

what's the first on your list?

Lol

iq70 post

lol, there is no more ISIS in Iraq the military and policemen are everywhere! you can walk freely and enjoy your time there.

Their is no more isis Except for some left over that are being hunt down

THERE ARE NO MORE ISIS IN IRAQ THEY ALL DONE SINCE 7 YEARS AGO

Your always welcomed

Iran can do with a better management but reality is.. The main reason Iran is not doing as good as it should is caused by US sanctions.

@@crowguy4350 Fair point, the U.S. sanctions are hurting innocent people, but if Iran stopped attacking American citizens and boats … maybe something can change.

@@paulmuscat2542 Iran don't give a F about American citizens. all they want from the US is to stop trying to topple them and to stop financing Israeli war crimes and their apartheid system.

@@paulmuscat2542 now it is Iran fualt 🤔😐

@@izanagisora Yes, it is. The country that burns American flags, tries to continually attack our shipping, funds proxies (though that isn’t really immoral) and commits human rights atrocities (to a much greater extension than we do). It is in our interest to be friendly with them as so we could trade with them. Also, why do you defend them? Are you from the Middle East? As, if so, please truly explain to me why you like them (who mess around a lot more in your politics than we do) and hate us? Is it because they’re Muslim and we are not? (As that is xenophobic).

the big divider is religion except for the godless

Right lol. War in Iraq was a scam

I mean, the current Iraqi government is the same one the U.S. set up in 2004. Iraq is now a U.S. ally (and basically the U.S. won in Iraq).

​@@paulmuscat2542 and yet people not from Iraq say that things would be better if Saddam was still in power lmao 💀

@@louiesouthgate8347yes, this is far more complicated than all the lame arguments saying US isn’t a big factor why things are better today than they were anytime under Saddam. Dethroning Saddam is why they can prosper to some degree today and why they are not oppressed. But it also doesn’t necessarily mean it was all worth it.

​@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Look up the 2019 protests. Not oppressed my ass 😂

This video is missing the fact that conflict between shia and sunna is still underlying the situation and I imagine it could cause at any point. This video makes me want to cry, I left Baghdad when I was 16 to the US and I never left the house without being driven somewhere. Thank you for your service!

Wow thanks for sharing your perspective. I think it’s important to note I’m Iranian American, and whether I introduced myself as Iranian or American, most of the Iraqi’s I met had almost no reaction or care. Its young population is heavily influenced by RU-vid, which wasn’t the case 10 years ago. But of course the people I met can’t be representative of all Iraqi’s or much more nuanced views. I hope for stability!

"It never occurred to me to revisit Iraq because the infrastructure back then was non-existent. When I was there, 80% of the populous didn’t have access to clean water" And all the US bombing of Iraq had nothing to do with the "lack of infrastructure"?

@MithunOnTheNet No, any U.S bombing occurred at the beginning of the War in the 1st year. We were there for 8 years, and it the U.S. that built and modernized the infrastructure.

@@donaldkinsey5245except Iraq had clean water, good healthcare, good universities and solid infrastructure until the 1991 bombings of the first gulf war targeted all of that… Iraq was not always a violent backwater … you helped make it that way

I hope iraq could grwo to be way better In terms of technology, military, economic growth

Liberation. If you think that they'd be where they are now if Saddam had continued to rule then you weren't paying attention.

​@@ScottCleve33 Hello from Christian Iraqi living in Iraq. God bless Ba'athists ✝️🇮🇶 Will be waiting for your generous three trillion dollar in reparations :)

​@@ScottCleve33 Iraq before 2003: Secular Socialist dictatorship and best country in the region Iraq after 2003: Islamic dictatorship worst country in the region Iraq still hasn't exceeded its all time peak GDP per capita back when it was under Ba'athists. You're one delusional Yank.

​​@@ScottCleve33 Iraq before 2003: Secular Socialist republic and best country in the region Iraq after 2003: western-installed Islamic dictatorship worst country in the region

@@christopher5846 that's a funny way of say thank you.

Nah

As long as iraq away from USA they will have stability