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They were absolutely wonderful. i would take you, your family, anybody there to drink some chi with them. they were our best allies on the ground. they have common purpose. and to be frankly honest, when you talk about training kurds, it makes baghdad and damascus and ankara nervous because people are always afraid theyll become too powerful. and when isis came back into iraq, the second and third army divisions capitulated, and they were literally all we had. and specifically on the syrian side...

Iraq or kuwait to people at the white house, to people over at the pentagon, and nobody had any idea he was going to do this. and so, weve made one bad decision after another, and some of it is process. i mean, obviously, weve got troops in syria that arent really -- you know, theres no congressional authorization for them to be there. i think thats something democrats would have taken up, but not at the abandonment of the kurds, and certainly not at the international perception that the u.s. mi...

Not what we signed up for. i think the issue, though, is that the president, hes swayable when you talk about things in this way. >> right. >> and so, we really have an agent actor issue at the civil military level with him. and so, when lindsey graham and jack keane, neo cons, go back into his office, there are some bases in syria we dont want to give up, and convince him with this argument that he was, to be frankly honest, he stood up and trashed the iraq war in the republican debates but als...

Kurds, or to save human life or to honor our promises as a nation. instead, we will leave those u.s. troops there to secure the regions oil. as trump tweeted out today -- "what are we getting out of the deal? i simply say, the oil." here with me, former u.s. army officer and veteran of the iraq war, john saltz, chairman and co-founder of vote vets, an advocacy organization for veterans, an odd vocation organization that has had a lot more to do because of the amount of time that america has spen...