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Ted Cruz: “I think the Iraq war was a mistake.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Gerard Baker in Conversation with Texas Senator Ted Cruz

Published | Video Starts at 06:33

You break it, you buy it. The idea that if we go in, we then have to send hundreds of thousands of troops and nation build. And I think it was a mistake. I think the Iraq war was a mistake. And in particular, I think. Do you think so at the time? I did. You did, yes. You said so. (06:33–06:35)

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