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Donald Trump: ‘I’d bomb the hell out of the oil fields’
Real estate mogul and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “bomb the hell” out of oil sites he says are controlled by the Islamic State terrorist group and then get oil companies to go in and rebuild them.
“The situation with [Islamic Stat] has to be dealt [with] firmly and strongly when you have people being beheaded,” he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I would love not to be over there — that’s not our fight. That’s other people’s fights, that’s revolutions, that’s whatever you want to call it … religious wars.”
“I would do things that would be so tough that I don’t even know if they’d be around to come to the table,” he said. “I would take away their wealth. I would take away the oil. What you should be doing now is taking away the oil.”
“I’ll tell you what I hate about this question — if I win … I didn’t want to answer this question and I thought maybe I could go without answering [it], because if you look at the great General George Patton or General MacArthur, who I was a big fan of, or any of these great [generals], they didn’t talk about what they did,” he continued.
“In fact, if you remember when I said I have a plan but I don’t want to talk about it — the problem is everyone said, ‘oh, he really doesn’t have plan,’” he said. “So I had to do it. But I hate talking about it, because if I win they know I’m going to do it. If I win, I would attack those oil sites that are … controlled by ISIS.”
“They’re taking tremendous money out — they are renovating a hotel in Iraq — can you believe it?” he said.
Asked if he would be destroying the wealth of Iraq, Mr. Trump said: “There is no Iraq.”
“There are no Iraqis — they’re broken up into so many different factions,” he said.
“I’d bomb the hell out of the oil fields,” he said. “I’d then get Exxon, I’d then get these great oil companies to go in — they would rebuild them so fast your head will spin … you ever see how fast they put up rigs? These guys are unbelievable.”
Asked if you’d need U.S. troops to protect the oil companies, Mr. Trump said: “Yes — you put a ring around ‘em. You put a ring — you’ve just taken all of the wealth away. This is what should be done. But no politician’s [going to] do that.”
27 Comments on "Donald Trump: ‘I’d bomb the hell out of the oil fields’"
Plantagenet on Thu, 9th Jul 2015 7:20 pm
I much prefer Obama’s strategy (although Obama himself says he hasn’t decided on a strategy yet)—after all, he’s only been at war with IS for a year.
Obama’s plan is clearly to prevent IS from taking over the rest of Iraq, but not to commit troops or do anything that might actually lead to victory and the defeat of IS. Obama knows he’ll be out of office in 18 months, and if he can just keep IS from from taking over Baghdad until Jan. 2017 then it will be somebody else’s problem, and Obama can retire to a nice beach estate in Hawaii and kick back.
Makati1 on Thu, 9th Jul 2015 8:05 pm
Does anyone need more proof that insanity rules in the US of A? A contestant for supreme sock puppet wants to destroy the world economy by bombing a terrorist group the US created. A group they finance and supply with arms.
But then, Washington is ruled by an elite that believes they can survive a nuclear war, and are willing to start one to protect their wealth and power. They have indicated that by continually threatening another nuclear power that has the ability to destroy the West. And by making a first strike possible against a trumped up ‘enemy’ with huge natural resources.
There is no political difference between the Dems and the Reps. Both want war, need war, and will not stop until they have another world war. Only the collapse of the US financial system may prevent it. We are living a repeat of the days before WW1 and WW2. Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
Hugh Culliton on Thu, 9th Jul 2015 8:35 pm
I like Peak Oil for the interesting and informative articles and information it provides. Please take this in the right way: if you really want to run pieces on The Donald, would you please put them under a new catigory called “comedy” or “out of the clown car” or something. Just please, don’t ever refer to the random sounds emitted by this self-propelled dog turd as being anything as grandiose as “coherent speech” or as being “important”.
steve on Thu, 9th Jul 2015 9:23 pm
I have to agree Hugh…..some of these articles are getting very lame…like love in the time of collapse….is viewership going down and this is the new normal….I hope not.
beamofthewave on Thu, 9th Jul 2015 9:54 pm
I read he is in the lead in the latest polls, he could very well be the next president.
Makati1 on Thu, 9th Jul 2015 9:56 pm
More proof of the decline…
““Last July (’14), the E.U. banned its companies from signing any new financing deals with Russia. In September, the E.U. placed even more restrictions on Russia’s access to E.U. capital markets…Forbes notes that, as a result of sanctions, western oil companies that were once dominant in Russia are now being replaced by European and Asian companies…The capper came at the St Petersburg Economic Forum, where the Saudis arrived, offering to be a full-fledged finance partner in Russia’s energy development, in exchange for Russian nuclear expertise and military arms. Two weeks later, the Saudis raised the bet with a five-year, $10 billion investment in Russia’s agriculture, retail, and real estate sectors….”
• BP buys 20% of Rosneft-owned oil reserves in E.Siberia, in a $700 million deal, creating new Asian-bound oil partnership
• Rosneft and Indian state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp signed long-term deals.
• Gazprom and Royal Dutch Shell are building a global alliance
• Gazprom signed an agreement with the Greek government to pursue its Turkish Stream Pipeline
• Gazprom signed a 300 million euro loan with Unicredit Bank of Austria
• Gazprom held discussions with Engie (formerly GDF Suez) over gas pipelines to France
Oil Price blog is the source of this info.
DMyers on Thu, 9th Jul 2015 10:07 pm
Trump makes me feel good. He’s the tough, no nonsense, gitt’er done businessman, incarnate. That’s what we need in a president. He’ll beat the world competition like a man. I think he’ll get an endorsement from the World Wide Wrestling Federation. He’s going to be the “tag team” candidate.
Makati mentions “bombing a terrorist group the US created. A group they finance and supply with arms.” He acts as though this is something unworthy of our appreciation. Mak, you don’t know business like Trump. He sees the financial benefits from arming both sides and probably later rebuilding both sides. That’s what he does He’s a builder. A perfect fit. We’re going to double our wartime production and then double our short interim peace production by playing both sides.
Don’t sell Trump short. In politics, shallowness and ruthlessness are virtues. Trump, in that respect, is a virtuoso.
Go for it Donald. Send ISIS a selfie of your ass, shitting on a prophet, right before you bomb the shit out of them and take their wealth (for redistribution to average Americans, we trust).
You think this guy ain’t gonna win the election?
Tim on Thu, 9th Jul 2015 10:26 pm
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Makati1 on Thu, 9th Jul 2015 11:27 pm
DMeyers, you appear to be just another brainwashed sheeple. LOL Trump is just another asshole running for sock puppet in charge. Another example of the trash running for Prez this round.
Barring a double assassination, it will be Bush or Clinton in 2017. There is no real choice for the sheeple, just different faces for the same program. The other ‘contestants’ are just entertainment to keep you from paying attention to the real world. You have no real say in your government anymore, if you ever did.
roman on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 12:15 am
What is ISIS doing that is hurting USA? They are selling oil cheap on the black market. Bombing fields in ME would be helpful for US oil production. But you will spend more way more money fighting ISIS than Iraq or Afg. ISIS can behead all the muslims they want(isn’t that terrorism prevention?).
Solarity on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 12:25 am
At least Trump talks truth rather than the PC BS and hyperbole spouted by the current Hocus-POTUS, all candidates of both parties, and as expected by the MSN.
apneaman on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 12:26 am
“What is ISIS doing that is hurting USA?”
Most importantly, hating them for their freedom. All sorts of horrific vague unnamed things can happen to you when “they” hate you for your freedom. Much worse than if they hate you for other reasons. Sorry we can’t go into the specifics – national security and all that.
Davy on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 3:09 am
I find it hilarious how Mak jumps all over the Trump talk when he talks the same way. Mak’s policy would be China and Russia NUK the shit out of the US then pick up the pieces in a new Asian world order. Mak, is the supreme sock puppet on this site. He spreads hate and discontent as a tool of his agenda of personal resentment and war lust. He is popular on this site because there are so many anti-Americans here. Unfortunately it goes with the territory when you have presidential candidates like Trump. Anti-Americanism is totally understandably in this sense. Yet, does that make and idiot like Mak right? No.
Hugh is right. Donald is a joke and the product of money and a free-ish country nothing more. This PO site has an anti-American contributor that likes to excite the natives. These type articles should be discarded as the outliers and statistically disruptive. Trump talk is not useful for real solutions. I will be the first to admit Donald Trump is an embarrassment of the highest degree. He is an example of the worst of what should be American.
Yet, I beg you to show me anything of substance in the rest of the world. Show me some light of truth in the rest of the world. This is what is sad. There is none. Look at what China is doing. Look at the hit man Putin and his calculated Machiavellian moves. We know how the US has degenerated into a den of thieves. Look at how Europe is flying apart. The third world does not even need mentioning because the amount of space needed would be prohibitive. This gives you a picture of the likely survival of our species.
apneaman on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 3:40 am
Meet the Immigrants Building Trump’s International Hotel in Washington D.C.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
– Donald Trump in the speech announcing his candidacy for President
A Trump company may be relying on some undocumented workers to finish the $200 million hotel, which will sit five blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, according to several who work there. A Trump spokeswoman said the company and its contractors follow all applicable laws. But in light of Trump’s comments, some of the workers at the site said they are now worried about their jobs — while others simply expressed disgust over the opinions of the man ultimately responsible for the creation of those jobs.”
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/07/07/meet-the-immigrants-building-trumps-international-hotel-in-washington-d-c/
Danlxyz on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 7:56 am
Mr Trump should learn to keep his mouth closed. Now anything with the name Trump on it will become a target. If IS needs a steady flow of cash to survive, so do Trump’s hotels. Stupid.
tahoe1780 on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 8:52 am
I wonder what he would do to the Saudis… http://www.ibtimes.com/saudi-arabia-beheadings-track-record-year-85-people-executed-islamic-kingdom-2015-1927920
BobInget on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 9:37 am
The single thing Trump said in his 20 minute interview that made the slightest sense, ‘take away ISIS funding’, PO.com puts up for ridicule.
In the early stages of this oil war to end all oil wars, US forces did in fact bomb IS held oil
INFRASTRUCTURE. Because both sides need oil so desperately to carry on fighting, we stopped
bombing IS convoys, stopped interfering in black oil trades altogether.
Perhaps, in the beginning we thought early victory was possible. Perhaps, before Iraqi troops cut and ran, we believed throwing equipment at the problem would do the trick.
Incrementally, Obama is being drawn into putting more and more troops into battle.
Harsh reality set in. President Obama stated, correctly, ‘this will be a long war’. If by ‘long’
the president meant five years, he’s off by factors. We’ve been at war for a decade.
IN twenty more years we will give up, exhausted.
This ‘oil war’ shrouded in male adolescent mysticism Will Never End. I’m not saying the West can’t defeat this particular insane offspring,
ISIS, they can. In IS place will arise yet another more or slightly less brutal group to take its place.
Since most commentators here might agree this is an oil war, lets all start calling it so.
To stop oil wars, we need to legalize the stuff.
BobInget on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 9:54 am
Recall the brew ha ha over an innocent word amalgam, “Communist/Fascist” ?
How about Populist/Fascist?
After watching Mr Trump, several things struck me. One, his absolute certainty about everything.
IN spite of the mans personal and business failures he still truly believes he’s invincible.
Old enough to remember the creator of modern Fascism, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
In ‘The Donald’ I see a direct copy.
Go on YouTube, you will be astonished.
BobInget on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 10:09 am
“Our greatest threat today is Russia”
Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, the nominee to serve as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that Russia poses the greatest security threat to the United States, and said it is reasonable to send Ukraine heavy weapons to defend against Russian aggression.
Posted note: I’ve been harping on how Russia will take over OPEC . I didn’t say it would happen quickly. Never predicted Saudi Arabia would turn itself into a suicide bomber, but it did.
Read this, oil glut believers .
(Reuters) – Lifting the U.S. ban on oil exports would bolster energy security in Europe by allowing countries to find alternative sources, the Czech Republic ambassador to the United States told lawmakers considering a bill to do away with the trade restriction.
“The larger the number of stable democracies among the world’s exporters, the more robust the energy security of the Czech Republic and the European Union will be,” Petr Gandalovic, the ambassador told a House energy subcommittee on Thursday.
The country has worked to reduce its dependence on oil and gas from Russia, the top energy supplier to many Eastern European countries. A recently built oil pipeline connects the Czech Republic to an Italian port via Germany.
Another witness said Europe’s refineries are built to use Russian heavy crude, so China would be the top beneficiary if the export ban was lifted. Backers of lifting the ban point to Russian aggression in Ukraine as an opportunity for the use of energy diplomacy. “This notion makes little sense,” Kirk Lippold, a retired Navy commander said.
The House panel was considering a bill sponsored by Representative Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, to lift the ban Congress passed in 1975 after the Arab oil embargo spurred fears of oil shortages. The measure has 75 cosponsors in the 435-member chamber. Many lawmakers have been hesitant to support the bill, worried they could be blamed if exports of crude are linked to any subsequent rise in U.S. gasoline prices.
Many lawmakers remain worried about fuel prices despite reports from Columbia University, think tanks including the Brookings Institution, and government agencies that say lifting the export ban would likely push gasoline prices down slightly, because it would boost crude supplies into global markets.
The General Accountability Office, or GAO, summarized the reports in a study this week, saying U.S. fuel prices could fall 1.5 cents to 13 cents per gallon, if the trade restriction was lifted. The report can be seen at: 1.usa.gov/1KQ1O82.
Representative Bobby Rush, a Democrat from Illinois, said the ban “may in fact be outdated,” but stopped short of saying he favored Barton’s bill. One option could be to target crude exports to certain regions to maximize U.S. diplomacy efforts, he said. Rush is working on a bill to allow exports of U.S. energy to Cuba.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska who heads the Senate Energy Committee, has also introduced a bill to lift the ban. It has 14 cosponsors in the 100-member chamber. (Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by David Gregorio)
Lawfish1964 on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 11:11 am
“Self-propelled dog turd.” LMFAO!!
penury on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 12:21 pm
To quote someone or other “At this point, What difference does it make?” You pick the one whose lies most closely match your opinions and then spend eight years complaining that it lied to you.
Pops on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 1:25 pm
The Don would bomb the oil fields and give them to Exxon & Chevron?
We already did that in Bush War II
So basically Bush War III
paulo1 on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 5:36 pm
Donald means king, doesn’t it? Or, tinpot Adolf? The guy is a joke. My heart goes out to you American folks having to put up with this farce.
Boat on Fri, 10th Jul 2015 7:29 pm
The Donald and Putin. Both remarkable business men that think alike.
Boat on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 11:15 am
Davy,…..We know how the US has degenerated into a den of thieves….
When was the US any different? Give me a time period and I bet I can find all kinds of examples of shenanigans.
All this talk of disaster and how the good o’l days were different. Wanna match link for link? All this talk about were not free. Ask a woman in 1900, an American Japanese during WWII, etc.
And American citizens are not blind to what happened. In fact TV has done a remarkable job in bringing stories about past injustices.
Boat on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 11:19 am
PS,…look up whisky rebellion. George Washington himself led the troops to collect taxes to pay the bills generated by becoming independent. The very reason we went to war to begin with.
Davy on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 2:04 pm
Boat, my point is the financial and political power is concentrating into a black hole between DC and WS. The “good o’l days” this corruption was dispersed and moderated by localism. Today the velocity and intensity of technology is concentrating wealth and power. If you want to be nostalgic about how bad the past was sorry, I ain’t biting. You are barking up the wrong tree Boat.