Reply #52: DUrs and others will hopefully look at all the quotes and speculation and

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find the originals to determine context. I bet there are rebuttals to many of the statements contained in the amendment...yet the amendment quotes them as fact.

How frightening and disappointing.

I will suggest, going on memory, that the original IWR contained conditions that needed to be met in order for GWB to take action on Iraq...the WH wrote a letter supposedly meeting the conditions and just quoted some of congresses "suppositions" and "assumptions" as findings of fact. This amendment lays the groundwork for similar abuse. More on the IWR conditions can be found in Worse than Watergate.