Reply #1: Here's what I think

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The Iraq war resolution to Congress had no mention of any approval by the United Nations. Grahm knew this and he said it during the debates. If Kerry, Edwards, Liberman (who actually didn't really care about whether UN approval was necessary), Gephardt, really did want UN approval, they should've voted against the resolution.

Honestly, I think they were really worried about their campaigns. For example, Here's Kerry. He's a pretty liberal guy I must say. He opposed the Vietnam war and did some pretty courageous things as a Senator.

However, here's this great presidential canidate and he's walking along, and then he sudenly veers off course? That's how I see it. I think they didn't want to be perceived as weak on defense because it was in the shadow of 9/11. I think the real brave one here is Grahm. Grahm made a really tough decision especially what he was facing, and did it.

I agree with you that if it was under the guise of a UN mandate, then it would have more legitimacy and probably the Arab League would've supported the invasion. But no, it didn't happen. Kerry, Edwards, Liberman, and Gephardt gave Bush the blank check to go to war by not asking serious hard questions about this war. And I totally disagreed with the notion that they needed to support this Congressional resolution so that it would give Bush more leverage with the United Nations. That's like giving in in my dictionary. If Bush wants a Congressional War Resolution, he's going to have to prove it. And it takes a lot of brains I believe to prove a war.