If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.
The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.
Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.
Iraq is not about oil.
Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.
We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.
Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.