And so that was the type of thing where, as the casualty reports were coming in, when I was in theater, it was Shia militia, Iran in back. Shia militia, day after day after day, they're They [Iran] were responsible for killing certainly hundreds of our service members. And I'd say probably they killed at least a thousand during that Iraq conflict. And that was. Was Soleimani, who was evil. Yeah. And obviously he got his comeuppance, and then, of course, Khamenei. So those were the guys that were responsible for the American blood. (00:22–31:58)
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