A Trump Energy/Iraq Policy - "If It Is Me, We Take The Oil"

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During an April 14, 2011, interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, businessman and potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Iraq is strategically important to the United States because of its vast supply of oil.

Trump said the United States spent $1.5 trillion on the Iraq War, and it could all go down the drain because the nation is so unstable.

"Iraq has the second-largest oilfields in the world. Fifteen trillion dollars worth of oil, second to Saudi Arabia. We go over, we decapitate their armies. Their armies are wiped out. They have weak armies, it is a corrupt society anyway, I mean, it's totally corrupt what is going on over there. We then leave in Iran which has fought for years back and forth, back and forth, because they were basically of equal strength, well, now they are not. Iran will come in. And they will take over Iraq, within two seconds after we leave, forget it, it is not even a contest. ...

"So, they are going to have the second-best oilfields in the world, second-biggest oilfields in the world that we made possible with our soldiers, thousands of people dead, wounded and … less importantly, $1.5 trillion. So, I said very simply. That if it is me, we take the oil. You know, in the old days, when you win a country, you win a country. Now with our stupid people, we win a country, we lose money, we lose soldiers, we lose lives, and then we leave."

EDIT

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-iraq-has-second-biggest-oilfield/

[Amonester]

1. OMG THE FASCIST RACIST THE DONALD

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[elleng]

2. The good old spoils of war

[icnorth]

3. I didn't think they made them any

dumber than Sarah Palin...I was wrong.

[abelenkpe]

4. We Take the Oil?

Yeah cause it's that simple just like we call OPEC up and tell them to lower their prices or else. That'll work. :crazy:

Why does someone so completely and dangerously stupid get so much attention?

[phantom power]

5. kick their ass and take their gas

Adults In Charge, FTW!
:woohoo:

[IDemo]

6. "Give us the gas..."

[jwirr]

7. Totally immoral. We are close enough to doing that as it is.

[NickB79]

8. Why stop there? I say we rip the gold fillings out of their teeth

And put them in concentration camps to labor away, making cheap goods to fill our department stores so we don't have to buy from China anymore. And when they die, we grind them up and sell them as compost for our golf courses and McMansion lawns.