{"id":105897,"date":"2014-01-14T20:44:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/with-the-white-houses-blessing-rand-moves-to-formally-end-the-iraq-war\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:44:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:44:20","slug":"with-the-white-houses-blessing-rand-moves-to-formally-end-the-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/with-the-white-houses-blessing-rand-moves-to-formally-end-the-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"With the White House\u2019s Blessing, Rand Moves to Formally End the Iraq War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Hudson<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2014\/01\/14\/with_the_white_house_s_blessing_rand_moves_to_formally_end_the_iraq_war\">thecable.foreignpolicy.com<\/a><br \/>January 14, 2014<\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s been more than two years since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq. But a loophole in the 2002 Iraq War Resolution allows future presidents to re-invade Iraq anytime they want. Now, Republican Senator Rand Paul wants to change that.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Kentucky libertarian is set to formally introduce a bill to repeal the Authorization of the Use of Military Force in Iraq. The bill, obtained by The Cable, has the support of a handful of Republicans and Democrats. But, in a bit of a surprise, it also has the support of the White House \u2013 at least in principle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Administration supports the repeal of the Iraq AUMF since it is no longer used for any U.S. Government activities,\u201d White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement. \u201cWe understand that some in Congress are considering legislation related to the Iraq AUMF, and we will certainly examine these proposals as they come forward.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014  at  2:24 pm<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/with-the-white-houses-blessing-rand-moves-to-formally-end-the-iraq-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"With the White House\u2019s Blessing, Rand Moves to Formally End the Iraq War\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hudsonthecable.foreignpolicy.comJanuary 14, 2014 It&#8217;s been more than two years since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq. But a loophole in the 2002 Iraq War Resolution allows future presidents to re-invade Iraq anytime they want. Now, Republican Senator Rand Paul wants to change that. On Tuesday, the Kentucky libertarian is set to formally introduce a bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}