Rudy Giuliani says America should take Iraq's oil because in war 'anything's legal'

Rudy Giuliani speaks at a Donald Trump rally
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Rudy Giuliani argued that the United States should simply confiscate Iraq's oil supply while speaking with ABC host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. When Stephanopoulos asked whether that would be legal, Giuliani laughed away his concerns.

"Of course it's legal!" he said. "It's a war! Until the war is over, anything's legal." Giuliani was defending Republican Donald Trump's argument that President Obama is the "founder" of the Islamic State, a line of reasoning the former New York City mayor said makes sense because "we would not be dealing with ISIS today" had Obama taken the oil before ISIS could use it to fund terrorism.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.