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Donald Trump

From The Desk Of Donald Trump 2/17/11 +
1:23 web video on "trump's Channel" on YouTube.


Trump: People don't realize that Iraq, after Saudi Arabia, has the greatest fields.  They have $15 trillion worth of oil.  Iran just wants that so badly, and I've been saying it for a long time.  They're going to go and get it.  So maybe we should take it.  Why give it to them?  We're over there.  Maybe we should take that oil.

When this whole thing started, everybody said we're only in it for the oil.  The fact is our leaders were too stupid to think that way.  People thought that way, but the leaders were too stupid to think that way.  If we're only in it for the oil, let's be in it for the oil.  Maybe before we leave Iraq, we should take the oil.

During a recent speech I made a statement, why should we secure and bring great safety to all of these very wealthy nations that rip us off consistently like, as an example, South Korea and others, and not get paid for it.  Why are we their security guard?

We should use our military and frankly make a lot of money with our military.  We have the greatest military in the world, we have the greatest soldiers in the world.  We're not using them as soldiers; they're really acting as a police force.  We go in, we win a war in one day, and the rest of the time we're nothing but policemen.  And by the way it's policemen where it's never going to work.

If we protect a nation, they have to pay us for that protection.