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02-22-2017, 02:21 AM
http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/TuymbNBd8ampWnU83LSptg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2017-02-20T004227Z_1986272928_RC1B41962010_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-PRESS-MATTIS.JPG (https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-defense-chief-tells-iraq-were-not-oil-073335183.html)By Phil Stewart BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military is "not in Iraq to seize anybody's oil", Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said, distancing himself from remarks by President Donald Trump,-as he held talks with Iraqi leaders on Monday. Mattis was the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit Iraq since Trump irked Iraqis with a temporary ban on travel to the United States and for saying America should have seized Iraq's oil after toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003. Trump told CIA staff in January: "We should have kept the oil.



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