Reply #50: The IWR vote took place 18 months into the Bush Presidency...

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People did not feel as strongly about him as they do now...

Any success in getting Iraq to disarm between 1991 and 1998 was at the point of a gun...the threat of military force was all that had worked...

That is what these Democrats were providing to resume inspections...as they made very clear.

Read the entirety of John Kerry's statement. It lays out the arguments in a very clear and persuasive way...


I agree that Congress has abdicated its role in reigning in Bush, but until one month ago that Congress was in Republican hands...

Even in the context of the IWR, Bush has exceeded his authority....

And I am sorry...but I will NEVER be convinced a man like Max Cleland, after what he had been through, would willingly throw away soldiers lives for political convenience...