Trump: We spent $6T in Middle East and didn't even get a 'tiny oil well'
Source: The Hill
President Trump on Thursday doubled down on his comments the U.S. should have taken oil from the Middle East during its wars there.
Weve spent $6 trillion
in the Middle East, Trump said during a meeting with airline executives at the White House. Weve got nothing. Weve got nothing. We never even kept a small, even a tiny oil well. Not one little oil well. I said, Keep the oil.
The president argued the money would have been better spent on massive new infrastructure projects in the U.S.
We have an obsolete plane system, we have obsolete airports, we have obsolete trains, we have bad roads, he said. We're gonna change all of that, folks. You're gonna be so happy with Trump. I think you already are.
Trump for years has said the U.S. should have kept Iraqs oil after overthrowing Saddam Hussein. But many legal experts say doing so could have violated international law.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/318681-trump-we-spent-6t-in-middle-east-and-didnt-even-get-a-tiny-oil-well
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)I know I'm fired up.
MattP
(3,304 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,163 posts)Which is absolutely bottom of the rung.
Grins
(7,218 posts)His limo drops him at the General Aviation operation where he gets on his catered private jet and and his crew immediately starts the engines.
This idiot knows nothing about public airports. (Or anything else.)
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)In a listing of the ten worst airports in North America, all three New York airports make the list. LaGuardia is the No. 1 worst, Newark Liberty is No. 3 and JFK is No. 9. Greatest city in the world? Not.
http://www.sleepinginairports.net/2016/worst-airports-north-america.htm
1965Comet
(175 posts)Republicans for years have said that Obama hurt America's standing in the world. Now this guy thinks we should have pillaged Iraq (and presumably Afghanistan, though I don't think they have much oil). I cannot imagine a worse way to offend our allies!
Now, in the future, if Trump ever starts a war, how is he going to get allies to help us if they think we will be pillaging the target country?
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)from the Caspian basin to the Indian Ocean. Mujahadeen and Taliban said no. US oil people said we'll kill you all to make it happen. Ergo, al Qaeda and OBL's rise to prominence.
rickford66
(5,524 posts)ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)that huge international but mostly russian oil company needs the pipeline/shipping route , plus Ukraine oil,
the same oil company that sold 19.5% of itself to a mysterious buyer after trump was elected and that same oil company that relies on Exxon, thus Tillerson, as Sec. of State to work magic in the neighborhood. Same Tillerson who has been in and out of the Russia for years on oil deals for Exxon.
It's always follow the oil and gas money.
starshine00
(531 posts)supposedly Assad opposed one they wanted to run through his country and look what happened. Practically everything corrupt like this leads back to a pipeline.
kiranerys
(54 posts)Backing out of NATO, insulting Mexico and Australia.... when the China-Russia alliance goes to war with us, we're gonna be on our own.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)him understand why it's wrong, just that he can't do it. Of course, he'll eventually forget that and start fretting again about how stupid we were not to sack and gut.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)let in monsters like the guys who raped and set Abeer Qassim Hamza on fire with her family as well as what happened in Abu Ghraib who all did more harm to our country than any terrorist ever could (All while making sure we keep out qualified gays), and had a war that, you know, created Daesh.
But the money and no oil well is what's important, right?
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)You're gonna be SO HAPPY with this Trump Vacuum Cleaner! It's the best, most beautiful vacuum cleaner you'll ever own! Just sign here and your beautiful vacuum cleaner will be delivered to your door in... six months.
3_Limes
(363 posts)That could distort things a bit.
Grins
(7,218 posts)kiranerys
(54 posts)Honestly, guys. It makes me wonder if he wants to attack foreign countries and steal their resources, as a way to generate revenue to pay for massive tax cuts for the rich, a border wall, infrastructure projects, more nuclear missiles, corporate bailouts, etc etc.
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Did someone forget to tell that bonehead airlines buy their own planes?
Vinca
(50,278 posts)provided by his own, personal pilot. What a total freaking numbnuts.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)I'm only five years younger, and it happens. It gives new meaning to long-term planning.
Tons have been written about how those facing the end of their lives fantasize about taking the whole world with them. Most of us just sigh and eat a cream puff. This aberration has The Biscuit.
For those who say he wouldn't do anything to endanger his own children, I just shake my head. The children he appears to pay any attention to are just Mini-Mes in his eyes. Then there are Tiffany and Barron, who are faceless outlines on his landscape. His wife is just a convenient prop, and we all know it.
This man is dangerous. Stupid, egotistical, deluded and dangerous.
BumRushDaShow
(129,085 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)You need to bitch to him about it, you useless fuckwad.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)in immoral and dangerous. damn
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)They weren't interested in the antiquated infrastructure, so they took the next best thing: cold hard cash.
It's no wonder this guy has failed so miserably his entire life in the world of business and finance...
Paladin
(28,264 posts)It doesn't fucking work that way.
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)U.S. citizens didn't get anything for the Trillions of dollars squandered.
Corporations made money hand over fist.
Lives were sacrificed to enrich war profiteers.
Ask Bush 43 and Cheney if they made any money off the wars in the middle East.
Ask Wall Street if they profit off wars.
Maybe you should hold those accountable who started this shit storm !!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck Trump !!!!
Fuck Republicans !!!!!!!!!!
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