And instead, we got the former leader of Al Qaeda, but a big reason that Syria became next after Iraq. In Iraq, we screwed the whole thing up so badly that we toppled Saddam, destabilized, fought a bitter insurgency. The Sunnis eventually aligned with Al Qaeda, but then we beat them down so heavily because the Shias are the majority of the country. (1:20:07–1:20:16)
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Asserts that the U.S. destabilized Iraq by toppling Saddam Hussein and fighting an insurgency.
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