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By Reed Richardson Jan 6th, 2020, 8:58 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders condemned the “mass chaos” of President Donald Trump’s Iran policy, just hours after the Pentagon had to conduct damage control after publicly releasing a letter mistakenly announcing the withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq.

The Defense Department’s embarrassing gaffe came in the wake of the Trump administration’s highly provocative—and roundly criticized—decision to kill Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike on January 3rd. When CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Sanders about the Trump administration’s actions on Iran, the Vermont senator did not hold back.

“The administration hasn’t a clue about what it is doing,” Sanders said. “It’s creating a very dangerous world scenario. Just yesterday, you had Trump saying very loudly that if the Iraqis want us to leave, the Iraqi government want us to leave, we’re going to impose trillions of dollars of sanctions, they’re going to have to pay for everything that we spent. And the next thing we hear is, ‘Oh, we respect the sovereignty of Iraq. We’re taking our troops back, out.’ And then a few hours later, we say, ‘Oh, that was a mistake. We are still in.'”

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