{"id":70899,"date":"2017-04-09T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T21:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70899"},"modified":"2017-04-09T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T21:23:38","slug":"trump-says-u-s-should-have-stolen-iraqs-oil-and-maybe-well-have-another-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70899","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says U.S. Should Have Stolen Iraq\u2019s Oil, and \u2018Maybe We\u2019ll Have Another Chance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Margaret Hartmann
\nNYMag.com<\/p>\n

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President Trump speaks at the CIA. Photo: Olivier Douliery\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

While addressing the CIA on Saturday, President Donald Trump took a break from lambasting the media<\/a> to remind everyone that he thinks the U.S. should have stolen Iraq\u2019s oil. He also suggested that the U.S. might get another chance to violate international law.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I said it for economic reasons,\u201d Trump said<\/a> while introducing Representative Mike Pompeo, his pick to lead the agency. \u201cBut if you think about it, Mike, if we kept the oil, you probably wouldn\u2019t have ISIS because that\u2019s where they made their money in the first place, so we should have kept the oil. But, okay, maybe we\u2019ll have another chance.\u201d<\/p>\n