Reality Check: Ted Cruz Says Middle East Was Better Off Before War On Terror
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By Ben Swann
“The Middle East was better off with Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi in power.”
Those words are from Republican presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
But is he right? What do the numbers show in the years since the Iraq war?
This is a Reality Check you won’t see anywhere else.
“We’ve seen a consistent mistake in foreign policy, we’ve seen Democrats and a lot of establishment Republicans in Washington get involved in toppling Middle Eastern governments, and it ends up benefiting the bad guys,” Cruz said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “It ends up handing them over to radical Islamic terrorists.”
In that statement, the senator explains how he believes American intervention since the start of the Iraq war has led from one disaster to another.
“Was t...