{"id":153043,"date":"2015-05-21T05:20:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T05:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=153043"},"modified":"2015-05-21T05:20:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T05:20:22","slug":"bushs-brother-blames-crisis-iraq-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/bushs-brother-blames-crisis-iraq-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush\u2019s brother blames crisis in Iraq on Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Presumed US Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, brother of former US President George W. Bush, has criticized President Barack Obama\u2019s Iraq policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former Florida governor was at a business meeting in the state of New Hampshire on Wednesday to defend his brother\u2019s invasion of Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly said that the 2003 invasion and occupation created stability in Iraq, until Obama seized the White House, adding that the opposite happened due to Obama\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The focus ought to be on knowing what you know now, Mr. President, should you have kept 10,000 troops in Iraq?&#8221; said Bush.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2011, Washington withdrew its troops from Iraq as part of the so-called SOFA agreement signed by Baghdad and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The US invaded Iraq in March 2003 under the pretext of destroying alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) belonging to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/21\/412067\/Bush-brother-Jeb-Bush-blame-Obama-Iraq\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumed US Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, brother of former US President George W. Bush, has criticized President Barack Obama\u2019s Iraq policy. The former Florida governor was at a business meeting in the state of New Hampshire on Wednesday to defend his brother\u2019s invasion of Iraq in 2003. He reportedly said that the 2003 invasion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153043","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}