Giuliani to ABC on Trump's 'take the oil" plan: "Until the war is over, anything’s legal".

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/SopanDeb

[unblock]

1. If the president does it, it's legal!

Unless the president is a democrat, of course!

[Zen Democrat]

2. Giuliani just gave voice to the reason people who think as he does want perpetual war.

[NightWatcher]

3. Isn't Ghouliani a lawyer? Has he never heard of "war crimes"?

[Imperialism Inc.]

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.

Trump’s 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 University’s Center on International Cooperation.

... (much more at link)

[Rocknrule]

5. Rudy: "Hitler did nothing wrong!"

[hatrack]

6. Germ warfare? Concentration camps? Carpet-bombing? Looting of antiquities?

You said "anything", Mayor Fuckstick. "Anything".

[SwankyXomb]

7. Wasn't that the original plan for the Iraq invasion?

Topple Saddam, and use their oil to pay for the whole thing?

[Hekate]

8. That's the way I remember it. Was it Cheney or Rumsfeld who said it would pay for itself?