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Here in Washington DC, we've got this strange guy in town. And you know, back in 2002,

he came to the United States and he spoke before Congress.

And he said, and I quote, if you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you

that it will have enormous positive reverberations in the region.

Beating Net Nya Hoonite, 2002, speaking before the United States House of Representatives

or United States Congress as a private citizen.

If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have an enormous

positive reverberations on the region. Right, so we took out Saddam's regime,

and replaced it with a largely Shia regime, which caused all the Sunnis who were,

you know, the army was almost entirely Sunni because, you know, Saddam had organized things that

way. You had to be a bath party member, bloody, bloody, blah. And so the Sunnis then developed

this like kind of underground network and started fighting back and a good chunk probably in

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