Donald Trump's remedy for America: oil from Iraq to 'pay ourselves back'

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Guardian

Every conference needs a good troll. And Donald Trump seemed happy to play the part at CPAC with a rambling speech on Friday that ranged from the evils of immigration reform to an exhortation to re-invade Iraq.

Trump gave the first keynote of the second day of the biggest annual gathering of conservatives in the US. He used it run against the tide of Republican opinion on immigration, to call for the expropriation of Iraq's oil, and to complain that the Obama administration turned down his offer of building a ballroom in the White House grounds.

In what would have been a damaging revelation if it had come from a more credible source, Trump said "high-level officials" told him before the Iraq war that the US was "going for the oil". The trouble was, it didn't get any. Trump's remedy: go back for it.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/15/donald-trump-cpac-speech-republicans-iraq

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Nutjob.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Yeah, because stealing resources is something a morally superior country does?

[AndyA]

2. Weren't we told that Iraq would thankfully repay us for our efforts

with oil? I seem to remember someone from Bushco saying that.

Their thanks in return for having freedom shoved down their throats, killing their relatives, and wrecking their cities, I guess.

Trump at CPAC: another reason why the GOP will never be a legitimate political party again. Too much crazy.

[truthisfreedom]

3. You're fired. And your little dog too.

Put a collar on that pooch.

[Botany]

4. Why does anybody give a flying crap about anything Trump says?

The Kardashians, the Royal Baby, and the upcoming Jennifer Aniston wedding all
come up on the more interesting to me category.

CPAC where the crazy people watch the even more crazy fling poop and make
strange noises.

Liberal media

[truthisfreedom]

7. CPAC is where loser repukes go to pretend they won.

"WE WON, WE WON!"

Then they go home, take off the animal suits and star trek uniforms and collapse in a heap.

Every single one of the keynote speakers at CPAC was a loser.

Mitt Romney, the biggest loser, shot himself in the foot by speaking his mind in front of $50,000 diners.

Marco Rubio choked during his post state-of-the-union gimme some water speech.

Rand Paul is such a loser that he's never been offered an opportunity to prove it.

Rick Perry, loser. Rick Santorum, bigger loser. Paul Ryan, total loser. Sarah Palin? How badly do you have to lose before you're a proven loser?

[Botany]

8. I liked the closing of Rubio's speech @ CPAC

"The idea is called America and it still works.” and then the audience goes batshit
crazy. Just empty words for empty heads.

[daleo]

15. I doubt most Star Trek fans are Republicans

Gene Roddenberry's creation was quite progressive, in my opinion.

[olddad56]

5. how would that work, would the oil companies that are currently stealing the oil...

have to donate some of the money to a super PAC to elect Donald Trump. You know that even if they did something like that, the money would never be seen by the people of this country.

[newfie11]

6. Oh yeah!

We attack a country that had nothing to do with 9-11. Kill their people. Destroy the economy, they are left with a shell of what they had. Now we think they owe us ???
What a warped world we live in.
All this for freaking oil!

[DCBob]

9. and they actually choose this buffon over Chris Cristie?

[iandhr]

10. How about this.

He says outrageous statements like this to get in the news because he is no eager for attention.

We should ignore him and pay him no heed.

[maxsolomon]

11. How much longer is this clown expected to live?

I grow weary.

[olddots]

17. he's not alive

Its just a cartoon " Donald Dump "

[bullwinkle428]

12. Does this asshole not realize how dependent his hotel and

golf course businesses are on IMMIGRANT LABOR?

Clearly, the Freep-fucks attending this conference can't compute that factoid within their tiny little lizard brains.

[Historic NY]

13. Isn't that was how the GOP'er fu-k faces sold the war in the first place...

Would the war be cheap and would Iraq pay for it?
The projections: Ahead of and shortly after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a number of officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz suggested the war could be done on the cheap and that it would largely pay for itself. In October 2003, Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan reconstruction that "the $20 billion the president requested is not intended to cover all of Iraq's needs. The bulk of the funds for Iraq's reconstruction will come from Iraqis -- from oil revenues, recovered assets, international trade, direct foreign investment, as well as some contributions we've already received and hope to receive from the international community." In March 2003, Mr. Wolfowitz told Congress that "we're really dealing with a country that could finance its own reconstruction." In April 2003, the Pentagon said the war would cost about $2 billion a month, and in July of that year Rumsfeld increased that estimate to $4 billion.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/1222/Iraq-war-Predictions-made-and-results

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. "if it had come from a more credible source"

[MoclipsHumptulips]

16. Slaughtering those brown people for their natural resources

so rethug, so donald.

[jsr]

18. Good luck.