Donald Trump still wants Iraq's oil, calls Fox analyst a 'sad fool' for disagreeing
Donald Trump believes in the old adage "to the victor belong the spoils" so much that he is willing to disparage syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer while standing his ground.
The real estate mogul has established on several occasions that if he were president and the United States was involved in foreign wars with oil-rich countries, he would "take" their oil after the conflict ended.
Fox News analyst Krauthammer told Fox host Bill O'Reilly that he considers conversations like that "nutty" and "unserious."
"Look Bill, that kind of talk is the stuff you expect at a guy at a bar at closing time with slurred speech," Krauthammer said on "The O'Reilly Factor."
"Charles doesn't like the idea of us taking the oil," Trump told "Factor" producer Jesse Watters on Wednesday in New Hampshire. "We won a war. We're in a war. We spent $1.5 trillion on this war. We lost thousands of soldiers, great military people, and thousands and tens of thousands are wounded. And I say take the oil. Because what's going to happen is Iran is going to take the oil the day we leave."
Trump continued, "Iran's not taking the oil, not if I'm president. And Charles said 'that's impractical'. So honestly, Charles is a fool. He's a fool. I mean, I want to be respectful. He was very nice on the phone. But he's really a fool."
Trump admitted that he didn't hear the statement but understood the motive.
"Look, they want to get some publicity off my back," Trump explained. "I'm leading all the polls. And he's just a sad fool."
Krauthammer, earlier in the month compared The Donald to another recent presidential candidate who made it to the national stage in an unconventional manner.
"Trump is Al Sharpton of the Republican Party -- provocateur and clown, unserious," Krauthammer said recently on Fox News. "I think he's going to harm the party if he runs for the same reason Sharpton harmed the Democrats."
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Mr. Trump is right. But he does not know that George Bush & Barack Obama, also agree with him. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait contributed over a Trillion dollars towards the Bush era bail-out which continued into Obama presidency.
Unfortunately Bush & Obama, being respectable presidents, can not admit it in as vulgar terms as Mr. Trump is free to use, untill he himself becomes President.
Posted by: Qirfiraz Siddiqui | April 29, 2011 at 01:43 PM
Mr. Trump is right. But he does not know that George Bush & Barack Obama, also agree with him. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait contributed over a Trillion dollars towards the Bush era bail-out which continued into Obama presidency.
Unfortunately Bush & Obama, being respectable presidents, can not admit it in as vulgar terms as Mr. Trump is free to use, untill he himself becomes President.
Posted by: Qirfiraz Siddiqui | April 29, 2011 at 01:43 PM
Another medieval custom was that all women of defeated nations used to become slaves, and they were paraded into slave markets to be purchased by wealthy slave traders from far & beyond.
During Bush & Blair rule, women from Iraq & Afghanistan, featured prominently in several beauty contests, and some even won some prizes and were crowned. This happened immediately after the two countries were occupied. And this happened both in UK & USA. There is too much co-incidence to rule out as mere chance.
Needless to point out that a parade is a parade. May it be on catwalk or may it be for the purpose of slave trade.
This is just to save that Mr. Trump is very much suitable to become American President, although he does not know how much he thinks like his former seat - holders.
Posted by: Qirfiraz Siddiqui | April 29, 2011 at 01:58 PM
What scares me, is he doesn't say that the TAX PAYERS, spent all the money on war, therefore the TAX PAYERS, should get the oil..
He want's to open it up to the big oil companies(exxon), so they can profit off of us.
It would be one thing if it were pretty much socialized (if you use a socialized method to get a product ie military. sorry, the product itself should become socialized)
Posted by: aj | April 30, 2011 at 08:24 AM