Mattis: army not for oil in Iraq

baghdad - The US military is in Iraq ' peck at someone's oil '. That said Defense Minister Jim Mattis Monday before he arrived in Baghdad for an unannounced visit. Mattis thus distanced himself from a statement by President Trump, who let slip in January against the CIA staff that the United States had to seize Iraqi oil when they had settled in 2003 with leader Saddam Hussein. 'But okay. Maybe you still have a chance, '' said Trump last month.

The new head of the Pentagon goes with the Iraqi government more consultations on the fight against Islamic State and the recapture of Mosul, but can also expect questions about Trump. In anticipation he spoke to journalists accompanying persons conciliatory words. ' I think all of us here and everyone paid generally in America for our gas and oil, and I am sure we will continue to do so in the future. ''