Iraq

“Our number one provider is Iraq right now. That's the number one source of oil.”

“The second war in Iraq and the Afghanistan war, and there were long, expensive conflicts where the benefit to the United States, looking back on it, was negative. It wasn't even neutral, right? It cost a lot of people their lives, and Afghanistan is still, Afg…”

“Palatine worked because we worked really closely with a lot of the special forces communities and the teams and people like that who were competent, and we helped go to Iraq, we helped reduce the number of IED deaths, and really kind of, you know, fix things, …”

“For over decades, Gas flaring around the world is concentrated in nine countries. That's Russia, Iran, Iraq, the United States, Venezuela, Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, and Mexico. If we look at data for last year, these top nine countries were responsible for abou…”

“Led over 450 combat patrols.”

“From that day until the day I left for Iraq on my first real combat deployment, I took her out on a date every single day from that day until I went overseas.”

“Which was basically a decapitation of a system, and in a way, it also perhaps contributed to the conflict between Iran and Iraq shortly after the revolution, because Saddam Hussein thought that perhaps this is an opportunity.”

“And one of my mentors ran British intelligence and was involved before the Iraq war in the U.S. And he tells me that the Iranians are very, very clever, the regime and certain people there. And he says that, that he believes from the best intelligence he saw, …”

“While at the time it was putting an end to an existence, particularly the scenario of Iraq which was an argument for regime change, which happened, but the way it was handled, gave the name regime change a bad reputation. What I've been arguing is that regime …”

“We're not asking for tax dollars. We're asking, for instance, that if the Biden administration wants to release ten billion dollars blocked in Iraq, which is electricity revenue, which is the people's money to begin with, while releasing it to a regime that ki…”

“Every single one of our bases in Syria and Iraq, and we have a lot, are going to be sitting ducks.”

“If Gore, if the count had gone right in Florida, and Gore had been president, would we have gone into Iraq? No.”

“I do think Ukraine is on track to become potentially the next Vietnam or the next Iraq.”

“Where there were detainees that we held that we thought were, should never be released in the entire time I was in Iraq, we certainly didn't release them. Some of them went to went to Guantanamo.”

“He has a critique of liberal interventionism, which has been the dominant foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. It's what got us into Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya.”

“Well, and so just San Francisco and LA alone, I mean, four people, four homeless individuals die on the streets of LA every day. That death rate is higher than the death rate in Iraq and Afghanistan for soldiers.”

“Applied to Iraq, this means that the sender of the military aid, which in this case was the US, would have been able to trace along the whole path that that aid took and ensure that it got to its intended recipient. And if anybody tried to siphon it off along …”