But he told Americans for over 10 years and even longer that he thought foreign wars and regime change was really a bad direction for America to go in. And we trusted and believed him that we wouldn't be doing this. But, you know, This was an unprovoked war, and Israel pulled us into it, pulled America into it. And so those are 13 lives that should not have been lost. Yeah. And of course, you know, when the president was asked about that, he argued that maybe he forced Israel's hand in this matter. (01:29–01:35)
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Asserts that the war was unprovoked and that Israel pulled America into it.
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