Reply #86: Bush getting off the hook

[sandnsea]

That is my biggest frustration in all of this. Bush is getting off the hook while Democrats go after each other on this war vote. Bush would have gone to war with or without it, that's why the whole blank check argument is not really relevant to me. Congress also would not have been able to do anything about the inspections or anything else, a Republican Congress wouldn't have even tried. What we've got is an Authorization that called for enforcement of UN resolutions OR defending US security. As somebody posted yesterday, Bush's own Resolution said the same thing. There was no Iraqi liberation authorized. So I think the Authorization actually did some good because it defined what Bush was supposed to be doing. And I think at some point that will be thoroughly exposed, it's just that it's kind of hard to do it with troops on the ground.