Reply #9: even now, the yes votes may have been the right thing

[Cocoa]

For me, the way the war happened, or even that it happened, are not because of the IWR. They're because of Bush's decisions after the IWR.

Remember that he still felt he had to lie in the SOTU, and Powell had to present the bogus evidence at the UN, and all the other Bushies had to sell their war, months after the vote.

This is Bush's war, not Congress's. A no from Congress imo would just mean that Congress's opposition would be blamed for everything bad in the war. As it is, this is Bush's war.