The president just advocated for a clear violation of international law.

[Jacob Boehme]

"...Trump Just Told The CIA The U.S. Should Have Stolen Iraq’s Oil"
Source: Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-cia-iraq-oil_us_5883ccf5e4b096b4a23243b2?6hzz44tn0ihgmbo6r

Excerpts: In unprepared remarks introducing his pick to lead the intelligence agency, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), Trump told CIA officials that when the United States went into Iraq, we should have “kept the oil.”

The strategy of taking Iraq’s oil is plainly in violation of multiple international laws and United Nations agreements.

“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.

Specifically, Arend cited the Annex to the Hague Convention of 1907 on the Laws and Customs of War, which says that “private property ... must be respected (and) cannot be confiscated.” It also says that “pillage is formally forbidden.”

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