Once Upon a Time in Iraq

Like every young millennial kid living outside of Iraq witnessing the country's invasion on TV in 2003, this docu-series brought back many memories for me. This version tells the story of Iraq in the final years of Saddam's reign and it's aftermath told from a people's perspective, those who were there on the ground (Soldiers, Journalist, Civilians etc). Each episode had me glued to my screen from start to finish. The final episode, the rise of ISIS, had me shaking my head in disbelief. Incredibly well done series!

As an Iraqi whom lost family members during the 2003 invasion in Iraq, its so heartbreaking today to watch this, just like the Iraqi people I to believe that America should have NEVER involved themselves and whilst watching this series I was just so angry and frustrated with what happened and there's nothing anyone can do to change Iraq for the better. That's it. Iraq is dead.

Where do I even begin, the series is brilliant in every single way it's a breathtaking, once you've seen it and seen the emotion that these people have inside them from these events they lived through and experienced. The archive of footage they show as brutal and barbaric as it is to look at it's so hard to look away at the same time because it's so hard to believe a lot of this isn't even fiction let alone that it all happened so recently. The people they interview every single ones perspective on this conflict is just so different and the way they talk and the role they played is fascinating.

If you only watch one documentary series this year please please please watch this, it's absolutely heartbreaking for both sides.

So sad. Hard to watch even harder to understand why. Why?