Reply #106: against this war...

[sandnsea]

but supported Biden-Lugar and disarming Saddam unilaterally. How can that be against THIS war from the start?

"I would have preferred that the President agree to the approach drafted by Senators Biden and Lugar because that resolution would authorize the use of force for the

explicit purpose of disarming Iraq and countering the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Exactly. And the resolution passed was to enforce UN resolutions OR protect U.S. security. Bush based his war on the UN resolutions requiring Iraq to disarm. He did what Biden-Lugar would have required.

The Biden-Lugar resolution also acknowledges the importance of the President's efforts at the United Nations. It would require the President, before exercising the authority granted in the resolution, to

send a determination to Congress that the United States
Which Bush did.

tried to seek a new Security Council resolution
Bush got a Security Council resolution, continued to work with the UN, and said that diplomacy had failed.

or that the threat posed by Iraq's WMD is so great he must act absent a new resolution--
Which is exactly what Bush said.

a power, incidentally, that the President of the United States always has."

Kerry preferred Biden-Lugar because it was focused on WMD and would allow war only to disarm Saddam. Which Dean supported but says he didn't. Bush followed Biden-Lugar anyway, we would have been in a war anyway, Dean supported a resolution that would have led to war.