Iraqis Are Pissed That Trump Said The US Might Try To Seize Their Oil, Again

[highplainsdem]

Source: BuzzFeed

TAL ABTA, Iraq — Abu Luay once battled US troops as a teenager in a series of ugly urban battles. Now the 27-year-old says he’s ready to sacrifice his family to fight the Americans again if the US follows through on President Donald Trump’s suggestion on Saturday to take the country’s oil.

“I participated in the attack against the Americans by attacking them with mortars and roadside bombs, and I’m ready to do it again,” said Abu Luay, an Iraqi security official who provided his nom de guerre and said he was not allowed to speak to the press. His is now fighting along the frontlines with armed Shia groups in northwest Iraq. “We kept our ammunition and weapons from the time the Americans left for fighting ISIS. But once ISIS is gone we will save our weapons for the Americans.”

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Iraqis at this tiny outpost near the frontlines of the ISIS battle warn that any attempt by the US to seize their oil would destabilize the country, and the region, and possibly undermine the war against ISIS he has described as a top priorities.

“There’s no way Trump could take the oil unless he launched a new military front and it be a new world war,” said Kareem Kashekh, a photographer who works for the Popular Mobilization Units, a new branch of Iraq’s armed forces consisting of former militiamen and volunteers fighting against ISIS.

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Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/borzoudaragahi/iraqis-are-pissed-that-trump-said-the-us-might-try-to-seize

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Seems that the Iraqis would sooner give their oil to ISIS than let Trump take it.

[Kittycow]

2. I can't imagine my child dying to grab another country's oil :(

...or anyone's child , really.

(insert upside-down flag here )

[iluvtennis]

7. And for what reason. TraitorTrump is such a no thinking dumbshit asswipe nt

[bitterross]

20. Neither can Trump

Since that'll never happen. NONE of his kids will ever serve in uniform - unless it's a prison one.

[Chasstev365]

3. Not even week as President!

This is going to be a long 4 years!

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

6. He won't last 4 years. He'll be lucky if he lasts a month at this rate

There will be a lot of Republicans that will side with Democrats to get rid of him.

[cstanleytech]

18. True but they also are secure in the knowledge that they get their man Pence as President then

and that means they get what they want still.

[onecaliberal]

4. There is no fucking way I would ever let my child be in the military in this day and age.

[Charles Bukowski]

5. Trump can't even begin to comprehend the logistics

of such a maneuver. He would have to invade Iraq all over again.

[nycbos]

8. Not even Cheney said something like this.

[HopeAgain]

14. My thought exactly...

The GWB administration bristled at such a suggestion that the war was over oil, Trump wants to proclaim it.

The other thing that is ridiculous is the arrogance to say we are somehow entitled to it. For what? The 50,000 + dead Iraqis as a result of the invasion, its bloody destabilization, sectarian fighting and Isis? I don't think we are owed as much as a thank you.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. If we did as Trump is suggesting...

Iraq and ISIS might join forces to fight us.... enemy of my enemy...

[progree]

10. Trump is smart- he found a way to unite the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds of Iraq.In just one statement

Maybe the whole Arab world

{sarcasm}

[Strelnikov_]

13. Yep. He's a Uniter n/t

[Paladin]

11. The wheels are really coming off of the trump regime, earlier than even I expected.

Very gratifying.

[Strelnikov_]

12. "We shouldve kept the oil. But, okay, maybe well have another chance."

Trump also delved into the Iraq War, repeating his oft-stated belief that the United States bungled its exit from the country by not taking Iraq’s oil, which he said was how the Islamic State made its money.

“The old expression, to the victor belong the spoils,” he said, adding: “We should’ve kept the oil. But, okay, maybe we’ll have another chance.”

When I read this last night, I was wondering when the shit was going to hit the fan over it.

[Fast Walker 52]

17. he's a freaking psycho

[democrank]

15. How utterly ignorant and careless a statement this was.

Only a tiny, tiny man has to engage in this kind of constant chest-thumping and bullying.

[Fast Walker 52]

16. Gee, I can't imagine why...

[TomVilmer]

19. ... but Media focus are just about Trump Lie About Crowd Size

"Trump Goes to CIA to Attack Media, Lie About Crowd Size"
Oil story was ready at the same time, but none of the old ones put that in the headlines:
https://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=oil+iraq+trump

[Kennah]

21. It will sure as fuck unite the whole region, against the U.S. (n/t)