In a speech this weekend, President Donald Trump brought back his campaign talking point of taking Iraq’s oil as a matter of foreign policy, comments which fueled considerable confusion among Iraqi officials, and more than a little annoyance.
Iraqi Prime Minister Hayder Abadi insisted that he “wasn’t clear” what Trump meant, noting that “Iraq’s oil is constitutionally the property of the Iraqis.” Oil is, of course, a massive portion of Iraq’s annual revenue, as its main export, and one of its few meaningful exports.
Trump insisted during the campaign that the US should’ve taken Iraq’s oil as “spoils of war” after the 2003 invasion and occupation, and over the weekend during speech at the CIA, suggested that “maybe you’ll have another chance.”
Asked about Trump’s comments, the White house reiterated the spoils of war idea, insisting that if the US is going into a country they need to “get something out of it for the commitment and sacrifice.” Which is to say, all the oil.
When suggested during the election campaign, it was quickly dismissed as bluster, with many analysts pointing out that there was no real way to take that much oil. That Trump brought it up again after the inauguration, however, suggests he still has something in mind with respect to such a policy.
Yes taking the oil makes a lot of sense , And I tell you what else makes sense . If a county need help or if we take the oil and want to help a country Why don’t we give Foreign aid to the people not the leaders of their government .Because that empowers the leaders not the people Than if the leaders need some money for police or education the leaders will have to get it from the people . Than the leaders have to do what the people want or they wont give the government the money . Now if we give the money to the leaders they give some to the people if the people do what the leaders want . This is the wrong way to empower the people That’s why there are no Muslim democracies the people have no power they have to do what the leaders want
Iraq didn’t invite us into their country in the first place.
US should’ve taken Iraq’s oil as “spoils of war”…
Stealing Iraq’s oil was the purpose of Bush’s illegal ‘war’ in the first place.
If anyone believes bullshit about WMDs, mobile biological weapons labs,
mushroom clouds over the Big Apple, and ‘liberating’ the Iraqi people from their ‘evil’ dictator, I have some prime California beachfront property on sale
in ‘Kansas’.
Ask President Trump how many US soldiers, airmen, and marines would be needed to protect these oil fields, the pipelines to Basra, and the docks at Basra to “take Iraq’s oil”. Because only then will you bring into the open how incredibly harebrained this idea really is.
No problem.Israelis are there to give ideas and direction