On the recordAugust 24, 2015
We shouldn't to go to Iraq. We did. We made a mistake. But we went out. We should have kept the oil.
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Trump discusses the U.S. decision to invade Iraq and the subsequent withdrawal, suggesting that retaining control of oil resources would have prevented the rise of ISIS.
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