It's not like if we kill, you know, 15 or 20 of them, the 16th or the 21st guy is Thomas Jefferson or he's a moderate. Absolutely not. It's very obvious to me that Some of these strikes, not all, but some, were conducted with the intent of making a negotiated settlement impossible. And that leads me to the saddest thing in a whole cluster of sad things. But the saddest thing is the bombing of the girls school attached to the Iranian naval base. (1:59:21–1:59:30)
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Asserts that certain military strikes were intended to prevent a negotiated settlement.
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