But I will say last week 2,500 young people died while we sit here and talk and while they talk about peace. But they've been talking about peace. This should have never happened. This war should have never happened. It would have never happened if I was president. That's what makes me more angry than anything else, because you've had far more people die than they report, than these people report, for whatever reason. But you had far more people. (12:11–12:15)
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Asserts that the war would not have occurred if he were president.
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