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To: LindyBill who wrote (49710)	10/6/2002 11:37:48 AM
From: BigBull	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Consensus forming? Oooo yeah. Well this latest news from Daschle indicates that the consensus has now formed; past tense. Congressional resolution for the use of force has now entered the slam dunk phase. ------------------------------------------------------------ Daschle: Iraq war may be inevitable Top Senate Democrat backs president, with caveat, ahead of Bush speech Oct. 6 -- Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., says on "Meet the Press" that he expects the Senate to overwhelmingly approve a resolution authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq under certain conditions msnbc.com MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 — As he prepared for a speech to the nation on the possibility of war with Iraq, President Bush on Sunday got strong support from an unusual source: the top Senate Democrat, Majority Leader Tom Daschle. “I don’t know that we have any other choice” but war if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein doesn’t destroy any weapons of mass destruction he might have, Daschle told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “WE’VE GOT to support this effort,” Daschle said of a resolution the president is seeking that would authorize pre-emptive military force against Iraq. The conciliatory statements did come with a caveat, however, and that was Daschle’s insistence that any resolution limit the rationale for war to the concern over weapons of mass destruction. Our “biggest concern,” he said, is to define the purpose in using force, and the United States must “tie it as directly as we can” to U.N. resolutions on weapons of mass destruction. But Daschle was confident the Senate would pass a resolution this coming week or “shortly thereafter” and that, even if it differed from a House resolution, lawmakers from both sides could draft compromise language “in a matter of hours.” He predicted the Senate vote would be along the lines of 75 in favor, to 25 against, the war resolution. Daschle said that while he wasn’t sure that Saddam posed an imminent threat, lawmakers should pass the resolution “to anticipate that it could be imminent.” He said he was “skeptical” Saddam would ever comply with U.N. resolutions on disarming and stop work on any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons programs Iraq might have developed. “I don’t know that we have any other choice” but war, he added, if Saddam doesn’t comply.