Reply #8: Most of the senate voted for it. I remember only hearing

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Robert Byrd speaking out loudly against it. He kept saying the Dems. were just trying to get the IWR vote behind them and move on to domestic issues because they thought the American people were more interested it that.

Byrd was my hero at the time. He criticized the senators for "putting the senate out of business," because they were unwilling to debate it. He kept saying not to give "one man" that much power. The dems didn't listen.

Kucinich was who turned the house around, otherwise more of them would have voted for the war.