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Aaron Rupar
Journalist, ThinkProgress.
Feb 9
President Trump casually endorses war crimes during White House meeting with airline execs
I said, keep the oil.
During a meeting with airline industry leaders at the White House on Thursday, President Trump lamented that the U.S. didnt commit additional war crimes during the second Iraq War by pillaging the countrys oil.
After talking about the condition of American airports, Trump said, We spent 6 trillion dollars in the Middle East. Weve got nothing. We never even kept even a little tiny oil well. I said, Keep the oil.
Trump suggested that the oil proceeds could fund a major government infrastructure project. Weve spent 6 trillion dollars in the Middle East. We have nothing, and we have an obsolete plane system, obsolete airports, obsolete trains, we have bad roads. Were going to change all of that folks. Youre going to be so happy with Trump. I think you already are.
Plundering a countrys natural resources is a war crime according to the Hague Conventions, which prohibits destroying or seizing an enemys property, and according the Geneva Conventions, which simply states, pillage is prohibited. The U.S. is a signatory to both.
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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-airline-executives-war-crimes-a33d3c610eba#.77qajbn2q
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)As he has done his whole life.
The problem is the 40 million sycophant fans of his who also want to do this.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Iran is next.
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)Hmm, so he's saying it was about oil?
Foo Fighter
(743 posts)We give them democracy and they give us their oil. Seems like a fair swap, right?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)babylonsister
(171,091 posts)Just wait til Sessions gets his racist little paws on this ban.
spanone
(135,873 posts)90-percent
(6,829 posts)National Security experts like Paul Wolfowitz said that we could invade Iraq almost for free, as the oil revenues of a Democratized Iraq would pay for all the help we gave them.
And the question I've had the last 14 or so years; Who actually profited from the invasion?
Other than Presidents, that as a result, enjoy being completely above the law and free to commit war crimes with impunity?
-90% Jimmy