Trump Lays Out His Master Plan To 'Take The Oil' From Iraq

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24. Trump’s ‘Take the Oil’ Plan Would Violate Geneva Conventions, Experts Say

Trump’s ‘Take the Oil’ Plan Would Violate Geneva Conventions, Experts Say


http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/09/08/trumps-take-the-oil-plan-would-violate-geneva-conventions-experts-say/?mod=e2tw

By Damian Paletta
Sep 8, 2016 1:08 pm ET


Donald Trump’s stance that the U.S. should have taken oil out of Iraq following the 2003 invasion would have been a violation of the fourth Geneva Convention and likely other international agreements, two legal experts said Thursday.

On Wednesday during a forum televised on NBC, Mr. Trump said the U.S. could have prevented the growth of the Islamic State terror network had it used a number of U.S. troops to pump oil out of Iraq. This would have blocked Islamic State’s access to oil, which the group used in part to finance its insurgency and operations.

“It used to be, to the victor belong the spoils,” Mr.Trump said.

But Laurie Blank, director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law, said Mr. Trump’s proposal would be a violation of the fourth Geneva Convention, as well as international agreements made at the Hague Conventions in 1899 and 1907.............................