LMAO… We sure “stabilized” the region…
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…OMG. That’ll tickle me all day. Thanks.
He is not wrong at all. We have all been around and seen the change in you. Rather than engaging in snarky comebacks, perhaps some introspection would be better. Just a friendly suggestion.
Yes, it is two different things. Taking Iraqi oil is a war crime. Saying we should take it is merely advocating for committing a war crime.
Trump could ask, Iraq says no, then Trump looks weak and ineffectual.
It’s not a surprise that Trump’s instincts are authoritarian and criminal, and that his supporters line up alongside those authoritarian impulses.
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I don’t recall there ever being a formal plan in place to force Iraq to pay for the war…it was just something a lot of Bush officials would throw around to make us feel all better about it. The same way they’d slip in talk of mushroom clouds, aluminum tubes, ties to al qaeda, etc.
The invasion was supposed to be quick, low-cost, low-casualty, and we were going to be welcomed with open arms as liberators. The people of Iraq were going to love us so much they’d pay us for reconstruction after the war.
We were lied to in many ways by the Bush administration leading up to the war.
The amazing incompetence and dishonesty of the Bush administration cost this nation trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.
One would think we would learn from having been lied to, especially given the cost of those lies, but some people continue to choose to gobble down lies that make them feel special partisan feelings. Some people have learned to love the lies. Drip drip.
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Yes, we know anonymous sources are totes cool when they make Dear Leader look good, but when they make him look bad, it’s #FakeNews.
The trillions of dollars and thousands of lives we’ve spent over the years haven’t stabilized the middle east-there’s a good reason many people are against continually being involved so heavily over there.
I mean seriously you should know that Obama pulled out and reneged on the Military base deal and that’s why there is no stability in the region so are you mocking him with your LYAO attitude or are you laughing at the slaughter by ISIS!
Maybe he should try making one of those awesome deals he’s always making.
Obama simply followed Bush’s plan for withdraw. Not only that, but Iraq told us to buzz off and leave-we didn’t have a choice. We couldn’t force them to allow us to stay there. They made their bed.
Bush owns ISIS…period.
Repeating the same thing to yourself, over and over and over…hypnotizes you into believing it. Now here’s your mirror.
Kind of like “drip…drip…drip…” huh? 
Absolutely. The real story is that he had some unworkable idea early in the administration, brought it up for review by the experts, they explained to him why he couldn’t do this…and he didn’t do it.
That’s how its supposed to work. He came to the correct decision.
It is impossible to get anything but a glowing, revisionist rewrite to defend Trump from you people.
Trump asked repeatedly over a period of at least two years. He first started talking about taking Iraqi oil as payment in 2011. You make it sound like he just threw out the idea early in his presidency, was told why it couldn’t happen, and then let it go. It took literally years for him to give up on the idea of seizing Iraqi oil, an actual war crime, as reimbursement.
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Translation: Our president is an ignorant buffoon, so good thing he has someone less buffoonish in place to stop him.
So…when did he steal the oil?
Leave those inconvenient facts at the door. Here we only praise Dear Leader. Didn’t you get the memo?
How ludicrous for some people to pretend they are looking at Trump logically and impartially when they get all bent out of shape when he discusses and rejects a policy with which they don’t agree.
Remember “Where’s the beef”?
Where’s the oil?
You falsely insinuated that Trump had this notion early in his administration, was given sound advice, and moved on. @PeterGriffin disabused you of this notion and pointed out the facts and the reality here. And you then lecture others on logic and impartiality? Come on Doug, you can do better man.
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