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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Under a containment policy, it makes sense for Congress to give the President the power to go to war in Iraq, but it also makes sense for the President to decline to do so when the inspections don't turn up any WMD. Sidd, you're forgetting that the congressional vote was well before the war started.
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I'm not forgetting anything. If your argument is correct, then Clinton was a fool for not seeking the power to go to war in Iraq during all the time that he pursued the containment policy.
Clinton wasn't a fool. He knew there was no reason to ask for the power to go to war. Until a reason for war existed, there was no reason to ask for the power.
And no reason to grant it.
