The US President has claimed that America spent as much as $7 trillion on military campaigns in the Middle East; his figure far exceeds the estimates suggested by Pentagon and university researchers.
President Trump has revealed what he considered to be the biggest mistake in American history in an interview with The Hill, pointing the finger at his Republican predecessor George W. Bush.
“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush,” the President said. “Obama may have gotten [U.S.] soldiers out wrong, but going in is, to me, the biggest single mistake made in the history of our country.”
Trump went on to claim that the US had spent a fortune on its military campaigns in the Middle East. “We spent $7 trillion in the Middle East. Now, if you wanna fix a window some place they say, ‘oh gee, let's not do it.' Seven trillion, and millions of lives — you know, ‘cause I like to count both sides. Millions of lives,” Donald Trump added.
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“To me, it's the worst single mistake made in the history of our country. (The US) Civil War you can understand. Civil War, Civil War. That's different. For us to have gone into the Middle East, that was a bad day for this country, I will tell you.”
Donald Trump has put a price tag on the US-led campaigns that largely differs from other…
