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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWouldn't taking a country's oil after a war, be a war crime? Looting and pillaging
are war crimes. I would refer the ineffective Matt Lauer, Trumpy, and Trumpy's mouth-breathing followers to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 (modified in 1954).
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Wouldn't taking a country's oil after a war, be a war crime? Looting and pillaging (Original Post)
FSogol
Sep 2016
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Lauer was too stupid to ask who would secure those oil fields on an ongoing basis.
Trust Buster
Sep 2016
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Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)1. Lauer was too stupid to ask who would secure those oil fields on an ongoing basis.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)3. Dog bites man stories are too complicated for Lauer.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)4. +1, who the fuck did he think tRump would have secure the fields!? People from Mars?! Softball
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)5. Was that a Cheney question?
Seems to me we tried that and it did not turn out the way Exon-Mobile said it would. Duh!!!!!
Imperialism Inc.
(2,495 posts)6. Yes. Exactly!
That should have led to a followup one would think. "Mr. Trump, are you suggesting the United States should commit war crimes?"
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)7. Trump looks fondly back to barbaric times
He sees himself as Conan. "Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women."