President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday it would've taken him just five months to end a war he refused to fight in. Speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box , Trump bragged about how quickly he ended the war in Iran"shortly after threatening to resume attacks if things don't go his way in the as-yet unstarted peace talks.
"And I just looked at a little chart, World War I, four years and three months. World War II, six years. Korean War, three years. Vietnam, 19 years. Iraq, eight years. I'm five months. OK, five months," Trump said. "I would have won Vietnam very quickly. I would have, if I were president, I would have won Iraq in the same amount of time that we won because, essentially, we won here."
The U.S. formal involvement in the Vietnam War wasn't actually 19 years long"it was more like eight. But how can one expect Trump to know something like that, when he wasn't actually there? The president, son of a rich real estate mogul, evaded the military draft five times.
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