This is intercepted.

I'm Jeremy Skehle coming to you from New York City and this is part four of an intercepted special American mythology the presidency of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 with a mixed message of attacking the legacy of the Iraq war and US military adventurism.

Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 with a mixed message of attacking the legacy of the Iraq war and US military adventurism while simultaneously pledging to commit war crimes and promote imperialism as a matter of policy.

When we went over there I said hey I assume we're taking the oil. You know the old days you had a war. You ever hear the expression to the victor belongs the spoils.

I said if we leave it it'll take the oil at least pay us back and I come out front page news oh Trump is a horrible human being he wants to take the oil from a sovereign country.

You see the people ripping off sovereign.

From the beginning of his campaign and throughout his presidency Trump's rhetoric on war would weave between denouncing past US military operations and vowing to end wars with an occasional tweet threatening nuclear war.

He's showing to the international community that he has no respect for international law that he is prepared to commit war crimes because attacking cultural sites is a war crime.

This proportionate response is a war crime.

Even as Trump authorized the expansion of some wars and the continuation of others as president he suggested that he was weighing the toll of the nation's foreign wars.

Nearly 16 years after September 11th attacks after the extraordinary sacrifice of blood and treasure the American people are weary of war without victory.

No where is this more evident than with the war in Afghanistan. The longest war in American history 17 years.

I share the American people's frustration. I also share their frustration over a foreign policy that has spent too much time, energy, money and most importantly lives trying to rebuild countries in our own image instead of pursuing a war.

Instead of pursuing our security interests above all other considerations.

But he also hedged his positions saying things like this.

My original instinct was to pull out and historically I like following my instincts. But all my life I've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.

In other words, when you're president of the United States.

Trump often hammered his opponents who supported the Iraq war. Or in the case of Jeb Bush whose brother started the war.

The war in Iraq was a big fat mistake. Now you can take it anywhere you want. And it took Jeb Bush, if you remember at the beginning of his announcement when he announced the president, took him five days he went back. It was a mistake.

It was a mistake. It took him five days before his people told him what to say. And he ultimately said it was a mistake.

The war in Iraq, we spent two trillion dollars, thousands of lives. We don't even have it. Iran is taking over Iraq with the second largest oil reserves in the world.

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