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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
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.
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The role of Congress and the President are fundamentally different. Kerry was a senator, but you guys are treating his vote on the resolution authorizing the president to go to war as if it were something different -- the decision to go to war itself. As Kerry was defending how he voted: "Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said on Monday he would have voted for the congressional resolution authorizing force against Iraq...."
I don't understand why he would have voted for the resolution even if he had known no weapons would be found -- it moots my point about inspections -- but maybe that's in a part of the article club didn't post. [
eta: The
original Reuters article suggests that his reasoning is that it would have been a sufficient reason to give the president war power to prevent Iraq from developing WMD, but it's not at all clear.]
