{"id":2019,"date":"2013-05-22T13:38:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2016-09-22T18:33:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:33:30","slug":"rand-paul-my-colleagues-just-voted-to-arm-the-allies-of-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/05\/22\/rand-paul-my-colleagues-just-voted-to-arm-the-allies-of-al-qaeda\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: My colleagues just voted to arm the allies of al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, which voted overwhelmingly to arm elements of the Syrian opposition in a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). \u201cThis is an important moment,\u201d Paul said, addressing his Senate colleagues. \u201cYou will be funding, today, the allies of al Qaeda. It\u2019s an irony you cannot overcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which would authorize the shipment of arms and military training to rebels \u201cthat have gone through a thorough vetting process,\u201d passed in a bipartisan 15-3 vote. Paul offered an amendment that would strike the bill\u2019s weapons provision, but it was rejected along with another Paul amendment ruling out the authorization of the use of military force in Syria. (Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy was the only senator to join Paul in support of the weapons amendment.)<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s two amendments constituted his first legislative act to soften the Menendez-Corker bill, which earned the support of powerful lawmakers from Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) to Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to Marco Rubio (R-FL) \u2014 all of whom rejected Paul\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/05\/21\/rand_paul_my_colleagues_just_voted_to_arm_the_allies_of_al_qaeda\" href=\"http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/05\/21\/rand_paul_my_colleagues_just_voted_to_arm_the_allies_of_al_qaeda\">http:\/\/thecable.fore \u2026 e_allies_of_al_qaeda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, which voted overwhelmingly to arm elements of the Syrian opposition in a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). \u201cThis is an important moment,\u201d Paul said, addressing his Senate colleagues. \u201cYou will be funding, today, the allies of al Qaeda. It\u2019s an irony you cannot overcome.\u201d The legislation, which would authorize the shipment of arms and military training to rebels \u201cthat have gone through a thorough vetting process,\u201d passed in a bipartisan 15-3 vote. Paul offered an amendment that would strike the bill\u2019s weapons provision, but it was rejected along with another Paul amendment ruling out the authorization of the use of military force in Syria. (Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy was the only senator to join Paul in support of the weapons amendment.) Paul\u2019s two amendments constituted his first legislative act to soften the Menendez-Corker bill, which earned the support of powerful lawmakers from Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) to Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to Marco Rubio (R-FL) \u2014 all of whom rejected Paul\u2019s allegations. Full article: http:\/\/thecable.fore \u2026 e_allies_of_al_qaeda &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1425,1690],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-rand-paul","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}