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There's no fighting. We're taking out a lot of oil, we control the Hormuz Strait, we control it very strongly. We did a hit on certain areas around the Hormuz Strait. We took our their radars, as you know, you know that very well.
"We took out some aircraft. We took out some other things that for them used to protect the Hormuz Strait when they had it under very tight control but now we control it and we're taking out - last night we took a lot of boats. A lot of ships came through and they come through every day. So I can understand what he's saying. It's a military conflict but it's very intermittent. I could see somebody not calling it a war."
The reporter followed up, saying it does not feel like "small potatoes" as 18 service members have died and there are record long deployments.
POTUS responded: "Why is it record long? How long were we in Vietnam? How long were we in Vietnam? How long were we in Vietnam? We're at five months now. And you know what we did in five months? They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. That's what we did. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon because if they did you probably wouldn't be standing here very long. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. We've stopped them from having.
"We may hit Pickaxe very soon because if there was anything going on with Pickaxe. But because of all of the things - you know, we're leading in space now by a lot. When I first took over in my first term, we were a distant third to Russia and to China. We're leading in space. We know everybody that's moving at Pickaxe. We know everybody that's moving everywhere all over Iran and, if anything goes bad, we hit 'em, we hit 'em hard.
"But we've been in there for five months and in five months what did we do? We stopped them from having a nuclear weapon. If we didn't go in there you wouldn't have Israel right now. You wouldn't have the Middle East and they probably would go at European cities and our cities next. But we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon.
"And you know what? We lost 18 souls, 18 great souls. I was there to greet the families of those people at Dover and they're great. I got very friendly with some of the families. They're incredible families. One is too much but in Vietnam we lost tens of thousands of people. In Afghanistan we lost a lot. Sleepy Joe Biden lost 13 just by standing at an airport, an airport that they shouldn't have been at because they should have used Bagram, not the local little airport right in the middle of the city. They lost 13 but they lost 78 people in terms of their arms, their legs, their face was just wiped out. You don't mention that. You don't mention that.
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