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Donald Trump: “We made a mistake going into Iraq. I've never said we made a mistake going into Afghanistan.”

On the recordOctober 19, 2015
We made a mistake going into Iraq. I've never said we made a mistake going into Afghanistan.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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Trump denies having previously stated that going into Afghanistan was a mistake.

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