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In fact, Donald Trump’s leading criticism of the Iraq War wasn’t that it wasted trillions of dollars and resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
His core criticism is that we didn’t “take the oil.” www.brookings.edu/articles/tru...
His core criticism is that we didn’t “take the oil.” www.brookings.edu/articles/tru...
Trump’s "take the oil" madness | Brookings
Taking the oil is the most dangerous and irresponsible of all of the Republican nominee’s policy proposals. It’s one he has repeated often. If you want permanent war in the Middle East and a titanic c...
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January 4, 2026 at 1:26 AM
In fact, Donald Trump’s leading criticism of the Iraq War wasn’t that it wasted trillions of dollars and resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
His core criticism is that we didn’t “take the oil.” www.brookings.edu/articles/tru...
His core criticism is that we didn’t “take the oil.” www.brookings.edu/articles/tru...
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Not the main thing ofc, but indicting a foreign head of state for conspiring to possess a machine gun is low key hilarious.
January 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Not the main thing ofc, but indicting a foreign head of state for conspiring to possess a machine gun is low key hilarious.