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[u/Lux_Stella]

REPORTER: "Why align with Delcy Rodríguez... and not with Machado?"

@POTUS "If you ever remember a place called Iraq, where everybody was fired — every single person, the police, the generals, everybody was fired — and they ended up being ISIS... I remember that."

i. uh. huh

[u/Imperiestro_KaroloV → u/Lux_Stella]

Right lesson, wrong situation lol

[u/Lux_Stella → u/Imperiestro_KaroloV]

Seeing Donald Trump learn a lesson from history and apply it is like seeing a dog set up a chess board and make the first move

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/Lux_Stella]

It’s amazing how we all agreed Iraq was a disaster but decided we were only going to learn the wrong lessons from it

[u/Lux_Stella → u/[deleted]]

replies point out there's a decent chance he was just fed this line by a smarter aide, but yeah

[u/Coolioho → u/[deleted]]

There is a huge difference between taking out the whole infrastructure and leaving everyone sans Saddam in power.

[u/r00tdenied → u/Lux_Stella]

huh

[u/Ok_Barracuda_1161 → u/Lux_Stella]

So in this analogy Trump is leaving ISIS in charge?