Derrick Van Orden: “Narco terrorists are responsible for more deaths of American…”

“I want you to read into it though, because certainly the signals coming out of this White House are that a strikes on the territory could be, could be in the cards. Well, let's remember now, Narco terrorists are responsible for more deaths of American citizens than all of the combined casualties of every war we've had since the Revolutionary War. So these are legitimate military targets. These folks are killing American citizens. On average, about 50,000Americans a year die from drug overdoses.” (00:25–00:36)

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