Iraq

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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, …”

“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.”