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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumstRump: When we left Iraq we should have taken the oil.
WTF does that mean? How do you "take" 140 billion barrels of oil?
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tRump: When we left Iraq we should have taken the oil. (Original Post)
moondust
Aug 2015
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onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)1. They took control of the flow and distribution
A decade ago. It was the whole reason we went.
moondust
(20,006 posts)2. He seems to be suggesting
that when U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq they should have loaded the oil onto trucks and brought it home with them so ISIS wouldn't have it as a source of income now. Can he be that clueless?
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)3. He is an idiot, IMO
Almost everything he says us nonsensical. He makes a new art of word salad.
woolldog
(8,791 posts)5. an idiot who graduated from the Wharton school of finance?
Doubt it. He's not an idiot. He's very shrewd.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. What is means is a few more points in the polls for Trump. n/t