Lie August 29, 2019 · Interview · Foreign policy

“We should have never been in Iraq. I've said that from day one and I was a civilian and it was covered but it was -- you know, I was a civilian so who cares, right? But I said from day one, we should not go to Iraq.”

Said
August 29, 2019
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
27 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 12628)

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