Giuliani on Whether U.S. Can Take Iraqi Oil: ‘Until the War Is Over, Anything’s Legal’

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite

by Josh Feldman | 9:37 am, September 11th, 2016

Rudy Giuliani seems to have an “anything goes” approach to whether the U.S. should “take” Iraqi oil, like Donald Trump has been saying over and over during the campaign.

On ABC’s This Week this morning, George Stephanopoulos asked Giuliani, “That’s not legal, is it?”

Giuliani said with a laugh, “Of course it’s legal! It’s a war! Until the war is over, anything’s legal.”

He argued that what Trump really meant was that the U.S. should oversee distribution of the oil (yeah, um, no), and that’s something we should have done a long time ago.

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Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/giuliani-on-whether-u-s-can-take-iraqi-oil-until-the-war-is-over-anythings-legal/

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Video of interview @ link, above.

[catbyte]

1. What a vile POS. He makes my skin crawl as much as Don the Con.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Giuliani gets more vile by the day. . . . . . nt

[Stonepounder]

3. I guess we can rape the locals as well - at least 'until the war is over'.

And steal anything they have that we want.
Hell, just shoot all the locals. (Kill them all and let God sort it out.)

I am literally sick to my stomach with what Trump and his cohorts are preaching.

[Perseus]

4. The mind

What a criminal sees as a means to an end, a normal person sees it as a horrendous action, the criminal mind does work different.

[Chakab]

5. ....and another failure by the "news media" to point out that the theft

of another country's natural resources is a violation of the Geneva Conventions and that these Trump campaign barbarians are advocating that the US perpetrate a slew of war crimes as its "Middle East policy."

The willingness of the mainstream media to play the false equivalency game even with this reprehensible campaign that Trump has been running shows how truly worthless it is.

The ironic part is that by pandering to the Right in response all of these incessant attacks regarding purports liberal bias, the media became just as dishonest and untrustworthy as the right has been claiming for decades.

[PearliePoo2]

6. On Morning Joe the other day, Mike Barnicle said about Giuliani:

"He's gone over the edge and lost it so bad, he should be wearing a large name tag that says, My Name Is RUDY. I live in #3-A at the home."

[Duckhunter935]

8. That was classic

[Mike Daniels]

12. Donny started that rift

By talking about how the very nice facility his mother is at in Florida has space available if Rudy was interested.

[Wounded Bear]

7. How Nixonian of him...

[lastlib]

15. Breathtakingly so.

Almost Cheneyesque.

[William Seger]

16. Pillaging and torture are not illegal if you're President Trump

... and it's much too hard to sue journalists for saying bad things about President Trump.

I think we need a complete list of laws Trump thinks are obsolete.

[PSPS]

18. Yup. "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon

[duncang]

9. That is the true sign of idiot thinking

Let's all start a war. And while it's still going on send in more people to repair and run oil production as fast as we can. It doesn't work that way. Not quite as clean. My oldest brother was over in Iraq after the war rebuilding as a engineer. He was barely able to get out of the encampment, wore a bullet proof vest all day, had to send locals out to take pictures and bring them back for him to look at. Clueless. clueless, clueless. etc. BTW rudy did I tell you? You have no clue.

[CanonRay]

10. Treaties and international law

mean nothing to these people, especially if it gets in the way of what they want.

[Paladin]

11. Fucking unbelievable.

Giuliani is a lawyer, of sorts. There is no excuse for his making excuses for international piracy of other countries' natural resources.

[William Seger]

13. "practically impossible, legally prohibited, and politically imbecilic"

Politifact:

"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.

So, that’s a start. But how about some details?

Would it be legal?

No, it would not be legal.

"What Trump seems to be advocating here would be a fundamental violation of international law embodied in numerous international agreements and in recognized principles of customary international law," said Anthony Clark Arend, a Georgetown University professor of government and foreign service.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/sep/09/should-US-have-kept-Iraq-oil/

[Moonwalk]

20. I think the key point amid all those quotes is the one that starts: "Insofar as...

...Mr. Trump's proposals are coherent...."

Barnett Rubin there has the right of it. The man disqualifies himself even before his proposals can be analyzed because they're barely coherent enough for analysis!

[rurallib]

14. this guy will have a prominent place in a Trump administration

if that doesn't scare you nothing will

[Sunlei]

17. That's called looting? like when WW2 was finally over & russia took all the nazis looted from Jews

Took it all, much stockpiles of Art, statues, even entire factories back home to Russia

[neeksgeek]

19. Oh yes, because Giuliani is such an expert on military matters...

"After receiving several deferments as a student, Giuliani applied for an occupational deferment as a law clerk, but his application was rejected. Giuliani appealed their decision, and asked the federal judge he was clerking for to petition the draft board for him. Which the judge did. When his deferment expired in 1970, Giuliani became susceptible to the draft. He received a high number and was never called."

More at [link:http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/30661/|

[gfwzig]

21. wonder how the repugs would feel about making iraq the 51st state.

we would get the oil, we would inherit all it's citizens, we would get military bases on "our" soil in the mideast, none of the terrorists would be foreign so they would all get passports-- i guess they would not need them anyway since they are citizens, we would get 2 more religious zealots as senators and about 3 more in the house, Ted cruz would no longer be the nutsiest member of congress. Mexican immigrants would not seem as much a problem, we could ignore saudia arabia because we would not need their oil, we would be a member of OPEC, Texas would no longer be the biggest thorn in our side, the religious caucus would have to include muslems or risk not being the most radical faction in congress, barack obama would not be the only politician with a muslem sounding name.

[BlueInPhilly]

22. Can he be disbarred

With his blatant ignorance of international laws?

[keithbvadu2]

23. Shorter version::::::: War Crimes

[truthisfreedom]

24. Show me where we actually declared war. Doesn't that take an act of Congress?

[Rocknrule]

25. Rudy should've been the lead defense attorney at Nuremberg

[Beartracks]

26. So let's keep the "war" going, Rudy!

Uh... that's the plan, right?



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[raging moderate]

27. The war IS over. Dubya said so.

A long time ago. On the deck of that ship.

Or was that just a movie?

[EricMaundry]

28. Dude needs a brain scan

[yurbud]

29. I guess the Geneva Convention wasn't taught at his law school