How would "taking the oil" have made ANYTHING better in Iraq?

[Ken Burch]

Why would even an idiot like Trump think that doing the one thing that would do more to destabilize Iraq than invading the place to start, or worse, the one thing that might actually unite Iraqis in support of ISIS(in the desperate belief that they might be the only force that could possibly get the oil back) could possibly HELP?

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Every time we tried to "take the oil"

this happened -



There are 6 oil wells that have been burning for almost a week right now!

[unblock]

2. this was shrub's plan! trump is just running on shrub's record, trying to be shrub jr.!

obviously trump admires shrub and thinks he was a great leader, so naturally he's trying to revive his plans to just take middle east oil.

absolutely brilliant.

[Ready4Change]

3. In his view, without oil there is no reason for us to be in Irag.

Barring the logistics of "taking the oil with us", he sees us as having no obligations there at all.

It's an approach he has applied to all his past business ventures as well. Take what he wants, and everything else can rot as far as he cares.

[Ken Burch]

7. Problem is, the people you screw over in a business deal...

...usually don't have IED's, guns, or possibly nukes.

[duncang]

4. It has gotten better now

But is still there. Companies used to work up costs of having people killed on the job. They would figure up what was a acceptable monetary loss. Dipshit donnie believes in the same thing but worse. This amount of money gained is worth as many lives as needed to guard and steal the oil.

[Adrahil]

5. It would have just confirmed...

many Arabs deep (and not completely wrong) suspicions about our interest in the Middle East.

[BYJ439]

6. I'm pretty sure that would be illegal

But what can you expect from Don the Con. He considers himself to be above the law. Pathetic man.

[brush]

8. Trump is an idiot advocating what would be armed robbery here in the states.

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"Just take the oil."

Yeah right, Trump. Just take another sovereign nation's natural resource, and don't even try to disguise with words like "establishing democracy and liberty" like Cheney/Bush did.

Might as well start another crusade because that's how it would be viewed in the Middle East.

[colin62]

9. How would "taking the oil" have made ANYTHING better in Iraq?

Why would even an idiot like Trump think...

He says all kind of idiotic crap just because he knows it will make his brain dead crowd cheer. It doesn't matter if he believes it or if it's even possible.

[Barack_America]

10. Um, we wouldn't have to give a shit anymore...

...like, well, Africa. Nothing there worth continual military intervention. Right?

*end scary trip into Trump's worldview*

[Hekate]

11. IIRC, that's why BushCheney went there. Baghdad's priceless museum was wrecked. Crucial agencies

...were shattered. But the Oil Ministery? That got personally guarded by US troops.