Did Trump Speak Truth about the Crimes of Our Nation's Leaders against Iraq?

I'm accustomed to being appalled by Donald Trump's utterances, so I was astonished to find myself grateful for his acknowledgment that our country is not innocent of crimes, specifically in the illegal and immoral attack, invasion, and occupation of Iraq.

He's right that the political leaders of this country who got us into the war in Iraq are “killers,"

As David Talbot pointed out in his column "'Folks among Us Who Normalized Torture" and as Rachel Gordon documents in the book Talbot cites American Nuremberg:  The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes,  we do have criminals among our leaders past and present, and we need to face that fact and do something about it.  Haven't Romanians just rallied to repeal a decree that decriminalized official misconduct?  Couldn't Americans do that too?

I think torture is abhorrent and criminal (1949 Geneva Conventions, War Crimes Act of 1996/US Code 2441)   and for that reason, I agree with another statement Trump has made--that "torture works."

If I were tortured, I would immediately confess to being the mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Center back in September 2001. I would confess to being a member of Al Qaeda and of ISIS,  and I might even implicate other people I know and love by telling my torturers that they too were planning terrorist attacks.  I would confess to any number of crimes  I never committed because "torture works."  Torture works to get "alternative facts" that justify whatever crimes  the torturers intend to commit or have already committed.   

Let's not be too quick to censure--or censor--what Trump started to say before O'Reilly cut him off and, what I note, the San Francisco Chronicle cuts short in Darlene Superville's  report, "Comments on Putin cause stir," February 6, 2017.  His words were, “We’ve made a lot of mistakes.  I’ve been against the war in Iraq from the beginning –”  and when O'Reilly interrupted to suggest that the US was guilty only of "mistakes," Trump continued, “A lot of mistakes – OK – but a lot of people were killed, so a lot of killers around, believe me.” 

I will agree with that--without even being tortured.