USA TODAY | Defense Secretary Mattis: No plan to seize Iraqi oil USA TODAY BAGHDAD — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday the United States does not intend to seize Iraqi oil, shifting away from an idea proposed by President Donald Trump that has rattled Iraq's leaders. Mattis' arrived on an unannounced visit in ... Trump's defense chief, in Iraq, says: We're not here for your oil Jim Mattis to Baghdad: 'We're Not in Iraq to Seize Anybody's Oil' US 'not in Iraq to seize anybody's oil': Defence Secretary Mattis |