And one of the craziest things, when Joe Biden says that Iranian backed militants operating from Iraq and Syria were the ones that conducted this attack, people need to understand that Those militias, those militants are funded, trained and equipped by the government of Iraq, which is funded, trained and equipped by the US taxpayer. So not only was this completely and totally tragic and avoidable and predictable, it's also absolutely absurd. And every American taxpayer should be absolutely furious about this situation that we've put ourselves in the Middle East. (01:08–01:17)
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