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Ted Cruz: “Saddam Hussein was not funding Hamas and Hezbollah killing…”

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Sen Ted Cruz: THIS is the single most consequential decision of the Trump presidency

Published | Video Starts at 06:08

I thought the Iraq war was a mistake. I think Iran is fundamentally different because Saddam Hussein was not murdering Americans on the scale and level that Iran has been doing. Saddam Hussein was not funding Hamas and Hezbollah killing Americans. And President Trump acted boldly to take out a regime that had been killing Americans over and over. But we're not disagreeing on that. Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with that. (06:08–06:13)

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