Iraq War: Is Iraq Better Now Without Saddam? (Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar Interview)

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar (human rights activist) about Iraq. What is Iraq like now? Is Iraq safer now? Is Iraq better now than it was under Saddam Hussein? Faisal answers these questions and shares his first-hand accounts of what life was like during the Iraq War for civilians, witnessing the advance on Bagdad, the unstable occupation that followed, and then fleeing Iraq. He gives his perspective of the war, and what it was like to witness the allied invasion up close. Faisal tells how invading Iraq has improved some situations, while making others worse. He also shares how the current political situation is one of the untold failures of the Iraq War, and that Democracy requires more than just fair elections. Faisal also discusses how the United States was a more reliable and predictable ally when it was fighting Communism and the Cold War, and how the US is no longer a predictable ally to the Middle East. He also talks about his experience of becoming a US citizen and the differences between immigration in Europe and the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report. Quick note everybody. We've changed up our
0:07.7	publishing schedule. So going forward clips are going up throughout the week and our
0:11.6	full interviews will be right here on YouTube on Sundays. And of course click that subscribe
0:16.3	button and turn on notifications blah blah blah blah. And more importantly, joining me
0:20.2	today is the founder of Ideas Beyond Borders, a brand new American citizen, Faisal Al-Mutair.
0:26.9	Welcome back to the Rubin Report. Hello Dave, how are you? Good. I find, thank you for asking.
0:32.1	I dropped the Saeed. There I said Faisal Al-Mutair. Do you go by Faisal Saeed Al-Mutair?
0:37.1	I go. Faisal Al-Mutair. I'm actually not sure. I go with Faisal Saeed for a reason. I mean,
0:42.7	Saeed is my dad's name. Yeah. And the reason I kept it is because I have a very strong relationship
0:47.9	with my dad. And the reason why he raised me to be the person that I am. I mean some people
0:52.9	keep the does name away. But I kept my does name and actually my first name so I can maintain
0:57.3	my relationship with him. All right. Then I feel I should look at you and do that intro again.
1:00.9	Welcome to the show Faisal Saeed Al-Mutair. Thanks Dave. Thank you. I am very excited to have you
1:05.3	here my friend because as of right now, you are now a five-time Rubin Report guest. I believe
1:10.9	that puts you in the Jordan Peterson Ben Shapiro category. Wow. And you. Oh, that's
1:16.8	a recent immigrant to the United States. I believe it. I think I've made it. That's it.
1:20.8	I'm out of this country. Actually, what I would just I was just noticed is that you've really
1:28.2	noticed all my developments since I came to the States. You actually like it if people
1:32.3	your audience watched the previous episodes and now they will see like pretty much my I think
1:38.1	you interviewed me one year after my get my green card. And so this was around probably 2014.
1:44.5	I think 2014 2015. No, 2015. Yeah. Fall of 2015. And yeah, that was one year after I get my
1:49.9	green card, which is in 2014. I landed in Los Angeles in 2013. And then yeah. And then here I am.
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