“We are leaving soldiers to secure the oil. And we may have to fight for the oil. Maybe somebody else wants the oil, in which case they have a hell of a fight.”
“The oil is so valuable. We should be able to take some also. And what I intend to do, perhaps, is make a deal with an Exxon Mobil, or one of our great companies, to go in there and do it properly.”
“If you read about the history of Donald Trump, I always used to say … If they’re going into Iraq, 'Keep the oil.' They never did." If we had done that, he says, Iraq "would be owing us a lot of money. They would be treating us much differently."
"I will secure the oil," since there's "tremendous money involved." Iraq "discriminates against America in oil leases. We go in, we lose thousands of lives, spend trillions of dollars, and our companies don't even have an advantage in getting the oil leases"
Baghdadi “died like a dog,” “as a coward running and crying,” “spent his last moments in utter fear,” “whimpering and crying and screaming”