Two Presidential Candidates voted No on the IWR

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Kucinich and Paul were not fooled by the intel and they did not delegate their authority to declare war to the President.


http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0128-08.htm

"It is time to set the record straight. The United States Congress never voted for the Iraq war. Rather, Congress voted for a resolution in October 2002 which unlawfully transferred to the president the decision-making power of whether to launch a first-strike invasion of Iraq. The United States Constitution vests the awesome power of deciding whether to send the nation into war solely in the United States Congress.

Those members of Congress-including certain Democratic presidential candidates-who voted for that October resolution cannot now claim that they were deceived, as some of them do. By unlawfully ceding the war-declaring power to the president, they allowed the president to start a war against Iraq based on whatever evidence or whatever lies he chose. The members of Congress who voted for that October resolution are as complicit in this illegal war as is the president himself."

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237


Vote "NO'' On Iraq War Resolution US
http://www2.kucinich.us/files/pdfs/IraqFloorSpeech2002.pdf
or
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2002/10/03_kucinich_vote-no.htm


Congressman Ron Paul
Statement Opposing the use of Military Force against Iraq
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr100802.htm