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Ted Cruz: “The cause of ISIS was toppling Saddam Hussein.”

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

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Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz Discuss US Foreign Policy, Iran, and Israel

Published | Video Starts at 13:22

He murdered and tortured people unequivocally. Bad guy. But it got much worse after we toppled him. And you ended up having ISIS rise up. I mean, that was The cause of ISIS was toppling Saddam Hussein. Same thing in. In Libya, you had Gaddafi, another horrible guy that, that under Obama, we toppled him and you ended up having radical Islamic warlords taking over. And. (13:22–13:26)

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