Trump Lays Out His Master Plan To 'Take The Oil' From Iraq

[TomCADem]

Source: Talking Points Memo

"If we had taken the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS. ISIS formed with the power and wealth of that oil," Trump claimed.

Pressed to explained exactly how the U.S. should take the oil, Trump said, "You would leave a certain group behind and take various sections where they have the oil."

He suggested that people didn't know that Iraq had a large oil reserve, and that the U.S. "got nothing" after losing thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.

"It used to be, 'To the victor belong the spoils.' Now, there was no victor there, believe me, there was no victor. But I always said, take the oil," Trump said. "One of the benefits we would have had, if we took the oil, ISIS would not have been able to take oil and use that oil to fuel themselves."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-take-the-oil

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My take is that even though Trump clearly had no idea what he was talking about, the MSM will praise him for not seeming totally incoherent. In contrast, I bet the media will attack Hillary for over doing it with detail and policy.

[Fast Walker 52]

1. this guy is just an amoral piece of shit, totally unfit for any kind of elected office

[oberliner]

2. And yet millions and millions of Americans will vote for him for president

Scary, isn't it?

[Fast Walker 52]

20. I've lost a lot of freaking sleep in the last few months because of this asshole

[TomCADem]

8. Watch Him Get Praised For Merely Retaining Bladder Control...

...the bar is being set pretty darn low for Donald Trump.

[Fast Walker 52]

21. where was that?

[Beartracks]

3. Wow, so clear and... my God why didn't we think of that BEFORE???!!!111!1

"You would leave a certain group behind and take various sections where they have the oil."



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[gordianot]

4. Trump is a Robber Baron and will kill for direct profit.

[roamer65]

5. It's the usual dumbassed knuckle dragger argument.

Like "Nuke them all" and other similar dumb shit that would guarantee WW3.

[ffr]

6. Unfit. Unqualified. Lacks understanding. Wholefully unprepared for questions

Going down and talking with him all hands on deck, kind of disaster for the republicans tonight.

[Journeyman]

7. "Let's drill through the center of the Earth and suck the oil out from underneath their feet" . . .

a comedian I saw once boldly proclaimed.

"Just because they're closer to it doesn't mean they own it!"

[hibbing]

9. Kind of just stating the idiot son's policy

Of course many will eat this shit up.

Peace

[world wide wally]

10. So, let me get this straight...

We "take the oil" and leave small groups (I assume these are Magnificent 7units).
And they will fight off these inept bands of Iraqis that try to take it back.

Hmmm, what could go wrong?

[moondust]

11. "Chris will load it on the truck and I'll drive."

[annabanana]

19. eek!

lolololol

[milestogo]

12. If we had looted the stores, we wouldn't have to worry about people shoplifting from them.

[lonestarnot]

23. No shit. And he loves war. A real crusader. Snort.

[Little Tich]

13. What an idiot. n/t

[olddad56]

14. master plans, making the nation great, demonizing other races of people...

Hello, these are all ideas straight out of Hitler's play book. Wake up America before it is too late.

[Warpy]

15. Just how many of our kids is he planning to throw at them to die trying to do that?

This man is fucking nuts.

And the media can't stop gushing over him.

I'm starting to pick out what's going with me when I flee.

[JackRiddler]

16. Trump totally has an idea what he's talking about.

TAKE THEIR OIL has been core message from the start. Make no mistake, he does have a core message, he's not all improvisation and bullshit to grab attention and rile crowds.

He's saying occupy Iraqi oil production.

Remember, from the start, from his first commercial with its first statement of platform:

"He will cut the head off ISIS and TAKE THEIR OIL."

[whistler162]

17. Worked well after World War I

never had another one and German remained a peaceful nation! <YES SARCASM>

[BumRushDaShow]

18. "Take the oil"

Over and over and over, for the past 25 years since the Gulf War, whenever anyone tried to "take the oil" from Iraq, the oil wells were set on fire. There are 6 well fires going on there right now.

[Paladin]

22. Expropriation of the natural resources of another sovereign nation?

Sure, why not? But Canada's a lot closer, and there are shitloads of oil and gas in Alberta, and massive timber resources to be pillaged, as well. I mean, if we're going to act like Barbary Pirates in our foreign relations, we might as well strike closer to home, where we're not going to be shot at as much.......

[riversedge]

24. Trump’s ‘Take the Oil’ Plan Would Violate Geneva Conventions, Experts Say

Trump’s ‘Take the Oil’ Plan Would Violate Geneva Conventions, Experts Say


http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/09/08/trumps-take-the-oil-plan-would-violate-geneva-conventions-experts-say/?mod=e2tw

By Damian Paletta
Sep 8, 2016 1:08 pm ET


Donald Trump’s stance that the U.S. should have taken oil out of Iraq following the 2003 invasion would have been a violation of the fourth Geneva Convention and likely other international agreements, two legal experts said Thursday.

On Wednesday during a forum televised on NBC, Mr. Trump said the U.S. could have prevented the growth of the Islamic State terror network had it used a number of U.S. troops to pump oil out of Iraq. This would have blocked Islamic State’s access to oil, which the group used in part to finance its insurgency and operations.

“It used to be, to the victor belong the spoils,” Mr.Trump said.

But Laurie Blank, director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law, said Mr. Trump’s proposal would be a violation of the fourth Geneva Convention, as well as international agreements made at the Hague Conventions in 1899 and 1907.............................