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. Qasem Salmani is running all over the place, funding proxies. It's a great deal. It helps Iran circumvent sanctions, their relationship with Iraq, and we just spent trillions, lost nearly 5,000Americans there. (1:20:36–1:20:41)
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Asserts that U.S. actions in Iraq effectively gave Iran significant influence in Baghdad.
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