Trump: Iraq Was the ‘Dumbest War’

BAIER: “You say you would be great on foreign policy, in part because you’re great at making deals, and you’re a master deal-maker. What kind of deal would you make with Vladimir Putin, when it comes to Ukraine or Syria?”
TRUMP: “If you look at Syria, and he’s now hitting ISIS, also, by the way. If somebody wants to go hit ISIS, that’s okay with me. We owe $19 trillion and, you know what? We’re going to get bogged down now in Syria. We just went through Afghanistan, we’re going through it now, Iraq, which is a total disaster, a total disaster. And I said, and you and I had this discussion, we should never go to Iraq. And I’m the most militaristic person there is, but you have to know when to do it. Iraq—we’re stopping Iran from taking it over. They were equal strength militarily. And then fight and fight and fight and then move two feet— this way two feet, that way two feet, and then they get tired, and then stop for a couple of years. When we decapitated Iraq—Iran is now taking over the Middle East. And Iran is taking over Iraq. And I said that would happen. And I should get points when people think about the voting. I should get points for vision. Because I was the only one that said of all of these people —“ [crosstalk]
BAIER: “No, in fact check, that is definitely true. And we’ve gone back and looked at the quotes and you definitely did that.”
TRUMP: “Yes. And you know who else has taken over? ISIS. Because ISIS came out of that, too. Don’t forget, ISIS was the disenfranchised people from Iraq. So we got ISIS out of it. That was the dumbest war —I mean — well we’ve had some pretty dumb ones, Vietnam was right in there, too, right? So now what happens, just Putin is in there—there’s all this Middle East thing. He’s going to get bumped, he’s going to get quagmired too. He’s going to be, you know, stuck in the mud. And my attitude is, he’s fighting ISIS, you notice he’s hitting ISIS pretty hard today. He’s fighting ISIS. You know why he’s fighting ISIS?” [crosstalk]
BAIER: “Hold on. There’s a lot of other targets there. [crosstalk] Syrian rebels —“