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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGiuliani to ABC on Trump's 'take the oil" plan: "Until the war is over, anything’s legal".
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Giuliani to ABC on Trump's 'take the oil" plan: "Until the war is over, anything’s legal". (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2016
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Giuliani just gave voice to the reason people who think as he does want perpetual war.
Zen Democrat
Sep 2016
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unblock
(52,352 posts)1. If the president does it, it's legal!
Unless the president is a democrat, of course!
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)2. Giuliani just gave voice to the reason people who think as he does want perpetual war.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)3. Isn't Ghouliani a lawyer? Has he never heard of "war crimes"?
Imperialism Inc.
(2,495 posts)4. I was just getting ready to post a piece from Politifact
covering the oil theft when I saw this post.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/sep/09/should-US-have-kept-Iraq-oil/
...
"I wish I could tell you all the ways it would be illegal and not kosher," said Steven R. Ratner, a University of Michigan law professor.
Trumps idea is "so out of step with any plausible interpretation of U.S. history or international law that they should be dismissed out of hand by anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of world affairs," said Lance Janda, a military historian at Cameron University.
"Insofar as Mr. Trump's proposals are coherent enough to be subject to analysis and judgment, they appear to be practically impossible, legally prohibited, and politically imbecilic," said Barnett Rubin, associate director of New York Universitys Center on International Cooperation.
... (much more at link)
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)5. Rudy: "Hitler did nothing wrong!"
hatrack
(59,593 posts)6. Germ warfare? Concentration camps? Carpet-bombing? Looting of antiquities?
You said "anything", Mayor Fuckstick. "Anything".
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)7. Wasn't that the original plan for the Iraq invasion?
Topple Saddam, and use their oil to pay for the whole thing?
Hekate
(90,847 posts)8. That's the way I remember it. Was it Cheney or Rumsfeld who said it would pay for itself?