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Press TV has conducted an interview with James H. Fetzer, professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, about US Senator Rand Paul introducing a legislation that would finally bring to an end Washington's authorization to wage war in Iraq.

- Professor, just how much will this loophole become a stinging problem, and will the legislation be able to defeat it?

- Well what Rand Paul is attempting to do is to move the country back toward a firm constitutional footing ever since Richard Nixon abolished the draft in order to reduce protest in the street. The nation as a whole has taken a very minimal interest in decisions of war and peace which have been left largely to the executive branch.

Rand Paul is displaying a great deal of integrity in attempting to straighten out the casual way in which the country has gone to war by bringing it to a formal end; I command him for doing this. It is the right thing to do.

- And professor, Washington went into Iraq on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction back in March 2003. I mean on what pretext does it want to go this time, if at all?

- Well allegedly it is because the gains of the past such as the city of Fallujah are being lost to al-Qaeda but the whole situation is ridiculous. I mean this is a disaster of our own making.

We should have never gone into Iraq. The 9/11 events were fabricated by the CIA and the MOSSAD to transform American foreign policy from one and which we have at least ostensibly never attacked any nation that have not attacked us first in order to justify becoming an aggressor nation and launching the invasion of Afghanistan within three weeks of the 9/11 events and then working up to Iraq.

But that was a complete disaster. We were doing the bidding of Israel by deconstructing the modern Arab state that pose the counterbalance to Israeli domination of the Middle East and now we are paying for it. The chickens are coming home to roost.

- And of course if America wants to send its troops to Iraq, doesn’t it need the permission and consent of the Iraqi government itself?

- That is true and I do not think it is going to be granted. I must say Rand Paul is such a brilliant politician. I think that there are many interests who fear him just as much as the powerful interest feared John F. Kennedy when he was President and that part and parcel of the disaster taking place with Chris Christie in New Jersey is that many of the entrenched powerful Republican interests that counted on him to prevail over Rand Paul, I no longer think that is a feasible plan.