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Pete Hegseth: “You would have to be a fool to look at the outcomes in Iraq…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Pete Hegseth Speaks Out, On Media Smears, Responding to Accusations, and How He'd Reform Military

Published | Video Starts at 1:02:52

But I've also, I'm also the product of two decades of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, where my view shifted a great deal from where it was to where it is today. Because You would have to be a fool to look at the outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan and think that what we got out of them was beneficial to American national security interests. And that's not to take away from every vet who gave everything. I was one of them, those last vet, those last folks In Afghanistan, the 13 we lost, the … (1:02:52–1:03:03)

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Asserts that the outcomes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not beneficial to U.S. national security.

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