Steve Bannon

But we did attack and we obliterated the site.

And we saved it there, too.

We did many things.

Taking out Soleimani was very important.

He was an evil man, but that was a big event we took out.

In my first term, we took out Soleimani, and they never had leadership that could compete with that.

He was an evil guy, but he was a real leader, and he was a very tough general.

Probably wouldn't have been quite as easy, I will tell you.

I don't think we would have — would have taken us an extra day.

But they're doing it for two reasons.

Number one is they want to deflect

From all of the tremendous success that we're having in this military operation, I won't use the word war because they say if you use the word war, that's maybe not a good thing to do.

They don't like the word war.

because you're supposed to get approval.

So I'll use the word military operation, which is really what it is.

It's called a military decimation.

But they don't like the good publicity.

They don't like to see us succeed.

They want to see our country fail.

We actually defined the birth of Western civilization by the Greeks beating the Persians in one battle.