QOTD: Giuliani time
by digby
He is well … he’s uninformed, to put it kindly:
Giuliani: “Of course” taking Iraq’s oil would have been legal: “Until the war is over, anything is legal.” #ThisWeek https://t.co/VR7lvCJAws— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) September 11, 2016
I have never understood why he has been considered an authority on foreing policy because he was mayor on 9/11. But there you have it.
By the way, that’s called pillage and it’s a war crime:
Pillage (or plunder) is defined in Black’s Law Dictionary as “the forcible taking of private property by an invading or conquering army from the enemy’s subjects”. The Elements of Crimes of the Statute of the International Criminal Court specifies that the appropriation must be done “for private or personal use”.
As such, the prohibition of pillage is a specific application of the general principle of law prohibiting theft. This prohibition is to be found in national criminal legislation around the world. Pillage is generally punishable under military law or general penal law.
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