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James Mattis has a simple message for the people of Iraq during his first visit to the country as defense secretary: The U.S. isn’t here to take your oil.

“I think all of us here in this room — all of us in America — have generally paid for our gas and oil all along, and I am sure we will continue to do so in the future,” Mattis said during a meeting with reporters Sunday night, according to a report in The Washington Post.

“We’re not in Iraq to seize anybody’s oil.”

Many saw oil as the real reason behind the U.S. war in Iraq under President George W. Bush that toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Huseein and led to years of chaos in his country.

President Trump repeatedly criticized the Iraq war in his presidential campaign, and also spoke of how the U.S. should have taken control over that country’s oil.

thehill.com/policy/defense/320334-mattis-us-not-in-iraq-to-seize-anybodys-oil

Quote (IceMage @ Feb 20 2017 07:23am)

Should Trump fire Mattis for this? Or was Trump lying when he said we should take Iraq's oil?

Quote (Beowulf @ Feb 20 2017 09:26am)

He also said he doesn't see the media as the enemy

at least he can say he lasted longer than Flynn

Quote (IceMage @ Feb 20 2017 07:27am)

So far the administration is a disaster, but if for some reason Tillerson or Mattis resign because they feel undermined, that'll be the point where Republicans and foreign leaders hunker down and wait for the next election.

Quote (EndlessSky @ 20 Feb 2017 16:10)

How many times did John Down Syndrome McCain call Obama a dictator for banning Fox News from their chance to ask questions? ZERO! SAD!

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Trump's aides don't want to admit the President is golfing

President Donald Trump has made visiting his Florida golf courses a near every-weekend habit in the first month of his administration, and his aides are trying to obscure whether Trump is actually golfing during the visits.
One possible reason: Trump was a frequent and vocal critic of President Barack Obama's golf habit, regularly slamming the former president for playing golf with many pressing issues before the country. Trump even suggested during a 2016 event in Virginia, in a knock on Obama, that if elected he was "not going to have time to go play golf."
"I'm going to be working for you, I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Trump said at the time.

Trump has visited his two golf courses near his Mar-a-Lago estate -- Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach and Trump National Golf Course in Jupiter -- six times in his first month in office.

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ah McCain. the man who never met a conflict or competition or war he didn't want to commit to 100% except of course, the 2008 election against Obama.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Feb 20 2017 03:27pm)

Basically. Neocons need to grow a backbone.

Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 20 2017 03:34pm)

makes an unscientific claim and flounders to back it up before running for the hills when pressed on a weekly basis, and calls out others for backbone.

my god. buy a fucking mirror you hack.