Reply #19: Imagine IWR as a poker game.

[Old and In the Way]

You're pretty sure the lucky bastard who's just raised the stakes and calledis bluffing you. But if you go all in, you could lose everything....the lucky bastard still has lots of chips to play and he can afford to lose. If Kerry and the Democrats had played against the resolution as a unfied Party, Bush would go anyway and then be "vindicated" with his pro-war media puffing up the WMD "evidence". Or, they vote against the war and another attack occurs. Iraq gets blamed, and Bush invades anyway. Democrats are politically nuetralized as the Party of Terrorist Appeasers. Bush gets Iraq and becomes the dictator he always wanted to be.

The Democrats were given a Hobson's choice. But Bush was supposed to return to the UN to make his case for war....which he never did. I'm not sure if Bush is in violation of the terms of the resolution, frankly. But went to war, not the Democrats. Bush lied to Congress for his causus belli.....and that is the long term damage that he has done to the Office of the Presidency. Institutionally speaking, future Presidents will be hamstrung in uniting the country because of the precedence of the Bush administration who put personal politics and financial agenda ahead of the country's best interests.

He really needs to be impeached for crimes against the Constitution and face the music.