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In New Book, Trump Explains How To 'Take The Oil'

by Adam Tragone

Donald J. Trump has shocked audiences for months – and gotten several standing ovations -- with his assertion that we should just “take the oil” from Iraq to repay the U.S. for liberating the country from Saddam Hussein​. 

But how do you just “take it?” 

In his explosive new book, Time to Get Tough, Trump expands and explains:  "Call me old school, but I believe in the old warrior’s credo that ‘to the victor go the spoils.’  In other words, we don’t fight a war, hand over the keys to people who hate us, and leave. We win a war, take the oil to repay the financial costs we’ve incurred, and in so doing treat Iraq and everyone else fairly."

“It’s hardly a radical idea,” continues Trump.  “In September 2010, our own Government Accountability Office and others studied the issue in depth and concluded that a cost-sharing plan is feasible and wise.”

“From the very beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I believed we should have hammered out the repayment plan with the Iraqis – through exiled Iraqi dissidents,” says Trump.  “Oil revenues could have been used to reduce the sticker price for occupation.  And there’s still no reason we can’t or shouldn’t implement a cost-sharing arrangement with Iraq.”

Trump’s new book (just released this week) is sure to provoke a heated response from many corners – and a new round of speculation over whether or not he will throw his hat back into the Presidential ring.