But it's also a foreign policy which has been a total disaster. Let us be honest. Important to understand this, not a new phenomenon. The American people were lied to about the war in Vietnam, which was devastating to my generation. 59,000 young men died in that war. and a war that never should have been fought. The American people were lied to about the war in Iraq. (22:01–22:12)
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Asserts that 59,000 young men died in the Vietnam War and the public was misled.
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