“All I want to do is be able to watch,” Trump said on “Face the Nation” on CBS. “We have an unbelievable and expensive military base built in Iraq. It’s perfectly situated for looking at all over different parts of the troubled Middle East rather than pulling up.
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“And this is what a lot of people don’t understand,” he continued. “We’re going to keep watching and we’re going to keep seeing and if there’s trouble, if somebody is looking to do nuclear weapons or other things, we’re going to know it before they do.”
Trump has long criticized America’s involvement in Iraq, describing it on “Face the Nation” as “one of the greatest mistakes that we’ve ever made.”
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