2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDid Trump say we should steal Iraq's oil ?
I am pretty sure that's a war crime and it would piss the Iraqis off even more, specially those who are sympathetic to us.
It would be like your neighbor stealing your car, driving it around where you could see him, just because he was stronger than you and the police wouldn't do anything about it.
procon
(15,805 posts)Looting and pillaging is just Trump's style.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Gee... Maybe we should take some as slaves...
SMH
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)He is completely unhinged.
He has forgotten even the basic ruse that got us into Iraq in the first place. He has completely gone off the deep end.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)that basically got the franchises after the Bush War.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Dick Cheney already did that one. It is called Exon and Halliburton.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)suggesting that we should just take Mideast oil, that we were owed it anyway. These were not-stupid, "respectable" people, even probably college educated. These are people I would trust to return my purse without problems, but most people, but especially conservatives and the more conservative the more prone, have literally very different codes of right and wrong for people and situations in or out of their "circle."
Btw, reminds me. Remember the old saying, "well, but that's business"? Younger DUers may not have heard it much, but it used to be very common, a way of saying that loosening the prohibitions on lying, cheating, stealing, defrauding is okay, even expected and sensible, if it's in a business context.
Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)That's what the Mafia guy said to the victim just before he whacked him.