'You lost your temper!'

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]I know, but you lost your temper over it because you said of course we did. We didn't want those fundamentalists in Iran.

[00:00:05]>> We were living in Washington. I was the spokesman of the State Department and the subject was Iraq. And Iraq was one of the most frustrating subjects for an American official because it was seemingly unable to be resolved and we had this policy of sanctions rather than war and you posed a few of the more difficult questions about it and I think it's possible that I lost my temper about it and I That is very true. I wasn't It was private. We were at home and I remember that and Iraq always was like that for me. I've always found it the most infuriating subject. Think of how stupid the whole thing was that Saddam Hussein didn't want to admit he had no chemical or biological weapons because he thought we knew that he didn't and he wanted the Iranians to think that he did. I know, it's fine coming from you. You Americans supported Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran, the long Iran-Iraq War and that's when you lost your temper. YOU WENT >> [screaming] >> ANYWAY, THAT'S IT.

[00:01:09]>> BUT BECAUSE IT WASN'T ME, I wasn't I was in high school then. I know, but you lost your temper over it because you said of course we did. It was one of those American non sequiturs in terms of policy that has come back to haunt you all.