The Sunnis eventually aligned with Al Qaeda, but then we beat them down so heavily because the Shias are the majority of the country. The Shias took over Shias, largely The Shias that we installed in Iraq, the Dawah Party, Badr Skiri, et cetera, heavily aligned with Iran. And so at the end of the Iraq war under Obama, there was this whole, oh, crap. We just handed basically the keys to Baghdad to the Iranians, who, again, hostile to us. (1:20:24–1:20:32)
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Asserts that the Shia groups installed by the U.S. in Iraq were aligned with Iran.
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