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Trump looked back on the Iraq war and didn’t mince words, calling it a quagmire that dragged on far too long. But he said that era is basically over now. He went further, suggesting the US probably shouldn’t have gone into Iraq in the first place. Still, he framed the pullout as a win all around, for America, for Iraq, and against ISIS specifically. The way troops and equipment left Erbil Air Base, he said, was smooth and orderly, closing the book on what he described as an incredibly costly mess.