One thing I do want to comment on before I rush to work, is that while Congress did for to authorize force, it was not a bill that was passed to start the war. It authorized force if the president thought it was necessary and tied him to working through the UN (you can find the full text here. FactCheck a little while back posted a quote from Bush at that time saying he thought the bill would actually help to prevent a war and sold it to Congress that way (basically, if we puff up our chest, Saddam will back down). Now for Kerry (and the rest of Congress to have bought that does not speak all that well for them. FactCheck did also post some quotes against the war from Kerry shortly after it started that read almost word for word like some of his recent quotes so I think he thought it would help stave off a war as well. anyway, I'm now running late.
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Date: 2004-10-21 04:49 am (UTC)