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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Trump wants to set up colonialism in Iraq to get the oil?
cause that is exactly what he wants to do
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So Trump wants to set up colonialism in Iraq to get the oil? (Original Post)
SummerSnow
Sep 2016
OP
If the media does not pounce on that comment by Trump, they are totally useless
riversedge
Sep 2016
#1
"Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women."
pinboy3niner
Sep 2016
#10
riversedge
(70,242 posts)1. If the media does not pounce on that comment by Trump, they are totally useless
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)5. They are useless
Not called out at all by Matt
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)6. Thank you
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. U.S. troops in perimeters guarding Iraqi oil fields--sitting ducks
Reminds me of certain vulnerable U.S. bases/firebases in Vietnam that were often overrun or besieged, and finally abandoned.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)3. That will be in a political ad - ran by ISIS for their recruiting.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)4. Hope Poland doesn't have any oil.
Don't worry it's just "M&A"
Avalux
(35,015 posts)7. "To the winners go the spoils"
Yes, he actually said that; we spent billions and lost thousands of lives and we got nothing for it.
This man CANNOT become president. He'll have us invading countries within a month.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)8. I remember he said that, he also said it tonight.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)10. "Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women."
He's extolling a concept from barbaric times. And he may not know that Conan was a fictional character.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)9. psychopath