Donald Trump’s Not Anti-War, He Just Wants the U.S. Military to Focus on Stealing Oil

[rug]

Robert Mackey
Sep. 14 2016, 12:24 p.m.

DONALD TRUMP’S ATTEMPT to present himself as an anti-war candidate is based on his perfect 20/20 hindsight of the disastrous consequences of regime change in Iraq and Libya — military campaigns he publicly supported when they were popular, and only turned against after they went wrong.

To better understand that Trump really is, as he insisted during the Republican primary campaign, “much more militaristic” than even George W. Bush, it helps to look at how often he has presented his bizarre plan to use the United States military as the muscle in a global protection racket, aimed at extorting oil from countries we destroy.

Trump began to make this case at a crucial moment, in early 2011, when he was flirting with a run for the presidency and the Obama administration was trying to decide how to use American power in Libya and Iraq.

That February, when President Obama was considering the intervention in Libya that his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, strongly advocated, Trump demanded immediate action to topple Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in a statement posted on his YouTube channel.

https://theintercept.com/2016/09/14/donald-trumps-not-anti-war-just-wants-u-s-military-focus-stealing-oil/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. He's big on war. He wants to start them over rude hand guesture from Iranian speedboats. . nt

[Cicada]

2. We wrongly think your country has WMD, we invade you, so it's fair we steal your oil

[gratuitous]

3. As a member of an historic peace church

We don't usually go around saying "I love war" like Mr. Trump:

http://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/brian_chasnoff/article/Trump-I-love-war-6630963.php

[saltpoint]

4. Rudy Giuliani says we can just go over

and steal all the oil we want.

"War's on, we'll take your oil."

[rug]

5. Another chicken hawk. The only war he was in was against squeegee guys.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/07/nyregion/study-suggests-it-is-easy-to-banish-squeegee-men.html

[saltpoint]

6. Yep. Of all of Trump's surrogates,

Rudy is at the top of the list if 'disgraceful' is the criterion.