Dem. Rep. Gallego Works Six References to His Military Service into Three Minutes

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BLITZER: "The defense secretary, James Mattis, he's working on anti-isis options to present to the president by the end of the month. Including putting a lot more U.S. Troops on the ground, not only in Iraq, but Syria as well. Would you support that?" 
GALLEGO: "I don't think it's a good idea from my experience just fighting, urban combat is very dangerous, and also you are potentially involving yourself in a sectarian situation where you have a lot of opposing sides. You have too many moving parts. I think the most important thing we could do is continue to train Iraq and other ally groups to fight on the ground for us. If we continue to get more and more involved, I think it will only draw more attention, money and credibility to ISIS. We need this to be a solution that is created and actually ran by, I would say, the Iraqi government and our allies in Syria." 
BLITZER: "Secretary Mattis, he went to Iraq today to reassure the Iraqis that the us is not in Iraq to seize anyone's oil. Those were his words, clearly different from President Trump who has said now on several occasions, the U.S. Should have kept Iraq's oil if the U.S. Had kept Iraq's oil, there wouldn't be any ISIS. Does a comment like secretary Mattis' reassure you?" 
GALLEGO: "It reassures me, but more importantly does it reassure the Iraqis, as somebody who has served in the Middle East will understand that what is said is important, what is understood is even more important. And when the president speaks it matters. And this is why it's very dangerous that Donald Trump is essentially setting foreign policy through his speeches and through his tweets, instead of allowing the experts, such as general Mattis to lead the charge. You know, the president needs to watch what he says, he's acting irresponsibly. And you are potentially putting a lot of lives in danger. Just like even at his other executive orders, he basically banned some Iraqi interpreters that helped us during the war, such as someone like me when I was in the war from coming to the United States. That is not going to encourage better participation by the Iraqi army or anybody who wants to ally with us."