Monday, January 23, 2017

Trump tells CIA "maybe we’ll have another chance" to take Iraq's oil

Rss@dailykos.com (laurence Lewis) · Saturday, January 21, 2017, 7:21 pm

This isn't ominous:

On the day after he was sworn in as the 45th president in American history, Donald Trump stepped in foreign policy controversy, saying the US should have kept Iraqi oil after its drawdown from the Iraq war, and suggesting “maybe we’ll have another chance” at accessing that natural resource.

He also said Iraqi oil was responsible for the rise of ISIS.

“If we kept the oil, you probably wouldn’t have ISIS because that’s where they made their money in the first place, so we should have kept the oil, but, OK, maybe we’ll have another chance,” he said.

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