{"id":610064,"date":"2021-08-03T17:06:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610064"},"modified":"2021-08-03T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:06:20","slug":"senate-committee-debates-use-of-force-authorizations-rand-paul-calls-for-public-and-official-ending-of-the-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-committee-debates-use-of-force-authorizations-rand-paul-calls-for-public-and-official-ending-of-the-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Committee Debates \u2018Use Of Force\u2019 Authorizations, Rand Paul Calls For \u2018Public And Official Ending Of The Iraq War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-committee-debates-use-of-force-authorizations-rand-paul-calls-for-public-and-official-ending-of-the-iraq-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610064&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1200175253-e1628023759386.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing on the authorizations of \u201cuse of force.\u201d The committee <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/hearings\/authorizations-of-use-of-force-administration-perspectives-080321\"><span>hearing<\/span><\/a><span> was titled \u201cAuthorizations of Use of Force: Administration Perspectives,\u201d with Senator Menendez (D-NJ) presiding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the hearing, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) explained his reasoning for the \u201cpublic and official ending of the Iraq War.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI wholeheartedly support the public and official ending of the Iraq war,\u201d Sen. Paul said. \u201cMany of us thought the war was a mistake to begin with. Large percentages of the public now in retrospect think the war was a mistake. Even if you poll our veterans who have fought in the war the vast majority of our veterans actually think it was a mistake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo publicly ending the Iraq war which has been over for a decade is a great idea and shouldn\u2019t be controversial,\u201d Sen. Paul continued. \u201cBut people who want to keep it in place have to realize that this vote will be similar to the vote in 2002. The vote in 2002 allowed a hundred thousand troops or more to be in Iraq, it allowed two thousand of our soldiers to die, it allowed 20,000 people to be wounded and over a thousand young men and women to lose their arms and legs. That\u2019s what you\u2019re voting for now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf you leave this in place any president could do the same thing they did in 2002. That\u2019s what you\u2019re voting for,\u201d Sen. Paul said. \u201cWouldn\u2019t you want to vote again? People say we might not vote for it, that would be good if we didn\u2019t vote for another Iraq war! But if there is another need for a war come and vote. When we have been attacked we have voted overwhelmingly. When we were attacked on 9.11 we overwhelmingly voted. Iraq was a different story and still people have debates over whether it was a good idea to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut leaving it on the books, if you vote to leave it on the books you\u2019re voting to allow a president to send as much as hundreds of thousands of troops in,\u201d Sen. Paul added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEnsuring the safety and wellbeing of American personnel overseas is of the highest priority to the State Department,\u201d said Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. \u201cAs diplomats, it is our responsibility and our honor to represent America\u2019s values and interests at home and abroad. That work requires our personnel to travel\u2014and live\u2014all over the world, including in many challenging environments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are here today to discuss authorizations for the use of military force. But I believe this hearing is also about our democracy, and the democratic values we model around the world. President Biden is committed to engaging with Congress on questions of war and peace, and to being open and transparent about when, where, why, and how the United States chooses to use military force,\u201d Secretary Sherman added, before saying that the \u201cBiden-Harris administration believes the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force against Iraq has outlived its usefulness and should be repealed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span> member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing on the authorizations of \u201cuse of force.\u201d The committee hearing was titled \u201cAuthorizations of Use of Force: Administration &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}