Posted on Jan 22, 2017
Iraqis Are Pissed That Trump Said The US Might Try To Seize Their Oil, Again
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Here we go again.
Iraqis Are Pissed That Trump Said The US Might Try To Seize Their Oil, Again
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Office of the President (POTUS) Donald Trump
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“If we kept the oil, you probably wouldn’t have ISIS because that’s where they made their money in the first place,” Trump told CIA employees in a speech broadcast on television. “So we should have kept the oil, but, OK, maybe we’ll have another chance.” Trump argued that the US should have taken Iraq’s oil repeatedly during the campaign last year.
Politics aside (I keep caveating) this is one of the things I dislike about President Trump. As the leader of the western world you CANNOT spout inflammatory remarks and rhetoric. Armies march on less. Stay on message; don't ad lib; don't play to whatever audience you happens to be standing in front of. You sir are the President of the United States, you dont speak on hypotheticals only declaratives and then only after careful consideration of the facts and intelligence at hand. Then the message does not waiver. Please sir act presidential; we the people of the United States and the world expect nothing less.
Politics aside (I keep caveating) this is one of the things I dislike about President Trump. As the leader of the western world you CANNOT spout inflammatory remarks and rhetoric. Armies march on less. Stay on message; don't ad lib; don't play to whatever audience you happens to be standing in front of. You sir are the President of the United States, you dont speak on hypotheticals only declaratives and then only after careful consideration of the facts and intelligence at hand. Then the message does not waiver. Please sir act presidential; we the people of the United States and the world expect nothing less.
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"Trump’s assertion that Iraqi oil led to the creation of ISIS does not square with facts. ISIS was formed out of several jihadi and nationalist rebel groups that sprang up in Iraq after the US invasion, eventually taking root in Syria amid the chaos of that country’s civil war. Oil became an important component of ISIS’s finances shortly after it was formed and mostly in Syria. ISIS financing sources include oil and oil products as well as taxes, tolls and kidnappings for ransom."
This reminds me of the Civil War in which was fought to because of he economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict and not over the moral issue of slavery.
This reminds me of the Civil War in which was fought to because of he economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict and not over the moral issue of slavery.
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Austin Hocutt
Well how I think the civil war was more due to the North trying to make the federal government more expansive and controlling (Now it was over slavery I'll give it that) though the Southern people were fighting the North mostly over the reason they thought they should have the right (State rights) to decide whether they should allow slavery or not. Instead of being forced into making the decision.
Now I'm not saying that slavery was something that we should have states rights on, but I think when it comes to things like sentence punishment, drugs, or other state level issues, should be left up to the state, with the federal government having it's general guideline that instead of forcing onto the states should try and use as a example.
More or less I see it as the politicians within the Southern Confederacy were the ones pushing the racial issue, while the people were just wanting to live their lives without any fear of the federal government controlling them.
(This is coming from a Southerner who thinks everyone's deserves equal rights.)
Now I'm not saying that slavery was something that we should have states rights on, but I think when it comes to things like sentence punishment, drugs, or other state level issues, should be left up to the state, with the federal government having it's general guideline that instead of forcing onto the states should try and use as a example.
More or less I see it as the politicians within the Southern Confederacy were the ones pushing the racial issue, while the people were just wanting to live their lives without any fear of the federal government controlling them.
(This is coming from a Southerner who thinks everyone's deserves equal rights.)
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