Scott Pressler
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funding um our allies are not getting oil from our enemies but instead they're getting oil from us i think that's what the american people would like to understand does this have to do with making sure we're not funding the very terrorism that is going to be used against us and if we just had clear communication on that the american people would be much more i think open to the idea of attacks with irene does that make sense the question i have is
A hundred percent.
I mean, I think I can speak for the majority of people that probably used to be George Bush fans and then they weren't because, like you said, there was no exit strategy to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
There was none.
It got us into a 20-year campaign.
trillion dollar deficit of our country.
And the American people don't want a repeat of that.
It's those are old wounds that we don't want to reopen.
And when President Trump was at the forefront of railing against it, very people that voted for him don't want to see him fall to the same mistake that George Bush did.
I think that's ultimately what it stands for.
And I think that's what really they're trying to go for.
But like you said, we want the clear.
Do you tell the opposition where the football is going?
Do you tell them what your plan is while the American people have to wait to learn that plan?
Well, but what is our definition of war?
You know, just like you were making the analogy of whatever your perception is.
So, for example, let's take China for a second.
Certainly, we don't have boots on the ground.
Certainly, we aren't necessarily launching missiles at each other.