Anonymous #1 3d

Is that why the soldiers were gleefully laughing at the running children?

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Anonymous #1 3d

so cite a source for the full video, lying dickhead

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

That’s not the original audio but sure yeah just embrace a narrative that all Americans are evil

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Anonymous #1 3d

The laughing is not in the original audio

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Anonymous #1 3d

Cool, can you point me towards the original audio then? If it’s so clearly a fake then you should be able to find it in just a few minutes!

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Anonymous #1 3d

just making up shit, who said all Americans are evil? Aside from yourself.

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Anonymous #1 3d

Let’s see the full video then

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Anonymous #1 3d

Soliders were instructed to hand out MREs to Iraqi children as part of humanitarian relief efforts. Your telling me that you think it’s so hard to believe that people can’t stitch laughing over a video to try and create a divide?

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Anonymous #1 3d

You’ve had 5 mins #1, where’s the fucking original audio? If it’s so clearly fake you should have been easily able to find it!

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Anonymous #1 3d

where is the video then? stop spewing nonsense, and provide a source.

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Anonymous #1 3d

You’ve now had TEN MINUTES to find the original audio commenter #1, where’s is it? You made a pretty definitive statement that it was fake, I want some fucking evidence

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Anonymous #1 3d

still nothing? hm.

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Anonymous #4 3d

“Posting a video from a video sharing site in 2026 is wild”

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Anonymous #2 3d

Extremely funny how they just went absolutely silent after being asked for a source

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Post the link then

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Anonymous #1 3d

TWENTY MINUTES with no source. Lying sack of shit

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Anonymous #4 3d

You want me to find 23 year old link to a site that has been shut down in the intervening years?

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Is that not what your asking me to do

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Anonymous #1 3d

No I’m actually asking you for fucking evidence that you’ve had almost half an hour to find dipshit, get back to Google

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Me when I make a claim and can’t back it up

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Anonymous #4 3d

I gave you the video dude idk what more you want. It was initially posted to that site, so the watermark is baked into that video

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Show me where it’s from 2003 Iraq. That’s what I want lol

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

I hate how common that is too. these propagandists don’t even put effort into their propaganda anymore.

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Anonymous #4 3d

This isn’t the same video, but there was a similar video of soldiers doing the same thing with a water bottle that went even more viral at the time. So it shows that this is something that definitely was commonplace to the point that the pentagon got involved https://www.cnet.com/culture/report-pentagon-investigates-youtube-video-of-u-s-troops/

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

“A 2007 RAND Corporation study on U.S. Army operations in Iraq reports that Iraqi children would run alongside military vehicles and soldiers sometimes rewarded them with candy or MRE snacks. It then explains that this practice was prohibited because Iraqi children had been killed running out to retrieve food tossed from coalition vehicles.” They were forced to separate themselves from the children when handing out food which is why they dragged it along with the fear of explosives.

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Anonymous #1 3d

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG428.2.pdf?

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Anonymous #1 3d

I can’t find the original clip anywhere but that’s because it’s 20 years old

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Anonymous #1 3d

Wait but that quote doesn’t say anything about explosives

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Anonymous #1 3d

Just means they aren’t as evil as you make them out to be

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Anonymous #1 3d

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Bro this is a spam ad site lmao what?

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Anonymous #4 3d

CNET has gone to shit in the years since, make sure you have your ad blocker on

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Bros on Wikipedia 😛

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Anonymous #1 3d

Yeah ignore the multiple citations listed there, those aren’t important

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Anonymous #1 3d

you’re on direct state sponsored propaganda, so i’d go with Wikipedia if I were you.

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Anonymous #2 3d

“we have investigated ourselves and we have found no wrongdoing”

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Anonymous #5 3d

dangling food in front of hungry children to entice them to chase the food is not a “harmless game”

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Anonymous #5 3d

Dude I was a boy for the first 20 years of my life stfu

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Anonymous #2 3d

Neither is gassing or shooting kids - both things which saddams army did. Would you propose that the us shouldn’t have liberated Iraq?

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Anonymous #5 3d

“Liberated”

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

This explains a lot then

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Yes, because your hometown was invaded by a bunch of heavily armed men that you had been told by your government were there to kill you. Of course you understand the complexities of civilians in war. My apologies

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Anonymous #5 3d

“Liberation” is when you kill over a million people and create ISIS

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Anonymous #3 3d

Colonialism is when you take 0 land for yourself and remove a dictator who was wiping out the Kurds

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

I mean does Iraq not have a republic now?

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Anonymous #5 3d

Your back hurt after moving the goalposts from “you know nothing abt being a young boy” to “you’ve never had your hometown invaded”

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Anonymous #5 3d

Nice to know you support killing a million people and creating ISIS because “liberation”

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Well that’s the situation those kids are in. That’s why the us soldiers aren’t organizing a game of flag football, they don’t know if the kids carry explosives (something that happened) nor do the kids trust them, they don’t speak the same language either so we’re not gonna talk our way through this one

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Anonymous #5 3d

Hmmm I wonder why Cheney had an entire map of Iraqi oil infrastructure, very strange

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Anonymous #3 3d

Isis was created by the Arab spring not by the Iraq war

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

*Shocked pikachu face* they wanted to develop the country and generate economic utility? They didn’t want to leave it as a pile of rubble? Disgusting, what imperialists

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Anonymous #5 3d

The group created in 2004 was created by an event that took place in the 2010s?

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Anonymous #5 3d

Imagine thinking the invasion of Iraq wasn’t the worst foreign policy decision of the last 60 years in the year 2026

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Anonymous #6 3d

Afghanistan was.

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Anonymous #3 3d

It didn’t gain any support or traction till then yea

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Anonymous #5 3d

Moving those goalposts around must be tiring, huh? ISIS was created in 2004 in the chaos following the invasion.

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Anonymous #5 3d

Afghanistan is nothing compared to Iraq. Afghanistan didn’t destabilize the entire region for decades to come, lead to the birth of Al Qaeda under Al-Zawahiri who started a brutal civil war, which then became ISIS and took over half of Syria

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Anonymous #5 3d

As opposed to what happened, where we definitely didn’t leave the country with it needing to rebuild

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Anonymous #5 3d

“Develop” you mean “steal as part of a no-bid contract to Dick Cheney’s company Halliburton”

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Anonymous #5 3d

That is COMPLETELY wrong, ISIS started as Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and was a major faction in the Iraqi civil war then began in 2006 which had the highest casualties of the whole broader war

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Anonymous #3 3d

goalposts stay where they have always been. Isis was created and was a fringe group under intense pressure until the Arab spring; when the collapse of the Assad regime opened Syria up and allowed Isis to bloom

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Anonymous #6 3d

Under Al-Zarqawi* wrong terrorist

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Anonymous #6 3d

Imperialism is when corporate malpractise

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Anonymous #5 3d

YES???

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Compared to what it was under Saddam? Yeah, the US was the cherry on a cake that started with his invasion of Iran.

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Anonymous #5 3d

Insane comment 😭

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Anonymous #5 3d

Bro just discovered literally what imperialism is well done

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Anonymous #6 3d

Ah yes, I forgot, everything done by western nations and people abroad is imperialism and colonialism now. Silly me

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Anonymous #7 3d

Imperialism is when you take land and formulate an empire. The East India company didn’t invest and sell contracts to its cronies, it conquered and forcibly extracted tribute from the rajs of India. The latter made it an empire

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Anonymous #5 3d

But yea still defending a war that cost trillions of dollars and thousands of US and millions of Iraqi lives based on intel proven to be fake decades ago just for Iraq to end up as an Iranian proxy is wild work

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Anonymous #5 3d

Ah yes of course imperialism is only when you take land as part of an empire and not anything else, the US is definitely not an empire because we’re not waging wars of expansion, flawless logic from the right as usual

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Anonymous #7 3d

For me the war was worth it because it prevented saddam from wiping out the Kurds, helped bring rights and freedoms to lots of Iraqi women, and it helped establish a foothold -seriously imperfect though it was and is - of democratic practise in the region.

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Anonymous #5 3d

Actually colonialism is usually done for resources, which is what America took from there. You know….the oil? Kinda a big deal at the time

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Anonymous #5 3d

“For me the war was worth it” how about the Iraqis perspective, huh? How about the hundreds of thousands of them we killed? Fucking nationalism is a hell of a drug dude holy shit

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Anonymous #5 3d

Yeah this is actually insane the war killed over a million Iraqis dawg how is that worth it

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Anonymous #7 3d

Me telling my Iraqi coworker that I’m sorry their family died but it was worth their lives + hundreds of thousands of others bc freedom or smth idk

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Anonymous #5 3d

We did not go in to liberate Iraq. That’s a dream you’re selling yourself. We invaded Iraq bc big business wanted the oil and the military industrial complex wanted war.

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

Me telling the Kurdish mass grave “sorry guys, we couldn’t invade. We have heckin basic decency

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Anonymous #1 3d

The department of defense directly addressed and opened an investigation into this footage when it came out in 2006. The audio is definitely not altered & what OP described is what happened

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Anonymous #1 3d

Bro didn’t even get the name of the terrorist group right when he made this shit up the Taliban never even stepped foot in Iraq 🥀

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Anonymous #1 3d

you clearly have zero evidence and are making this up... but let's ignore that this unsourced quote doesn't say anything about children being used to bomb people. it says they were killed. the phrasing suggests soldiers killed them

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 3d

you do know people have lives right? sorry you’re stuck on yik yak for 20 minutes straight with nothing better to do

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Anonymous #2 3d

rather than think there’s a chance that American soldiers are good people, you believe that the internet is 100% true and everyone’s evil

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Anonymous #12 3d

Surely you can entertain the idea that there are evil US soldiers and good ones too

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Anonymous stoner22 2d

You should see what is happening in Palestine, it’s only gotten worse

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