Tucker Carlson: “This happened in Iraq, which, you know, we entered into at…”

“Not a defense of Iran, of course. It's merely an acknowledgment that we've done this before. This happened in Iraq, which, you know, we entered into at the behest of those same foreign policy strategists. And. And it didn't work. And so I was going on at some length backstage with Charlie, and I said, you know, probably not going to talk about that.” (21:06–21:15)

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