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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (763583)	7/19/2007 2:51:55 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Congressional vote of approval....whether you call it a declaration of war or not...." It CLEARLY was NOT a formal declaration of war. (We have NOT declared war since WW II.) (And, the resolution was actually sold to the public and congress at the time as merely a tactic to bring pressure on Saddam to cooperate with the UN's and the IAEC's weapon's inspectors... as a way to 'force' him to play ball... a stick to motivate him, not as a formal start to hostilities. When Saddam actually let the inspectors [both sets] go about their tasks though, it didn't seem to matter much to Bush.... It was actually Bush who ordered the inspectors out of Iraq, not Saddam. It's possible that Bush was concerned that - because the inspectors were not finding any WMD - that if he let them continue he might lose the public's support for a war.) I sincerely hope that is the LAST TIME that Congress wimps out and shirks it's Constitutional duty to declare war. Re: There is a wartime "malaise" but it is not due to not having a formal declaration IMO. Then you are disagreeing with Goldie and me on this point. (I don't think that either Goldie or I believe that this is the sole reason for the American opposition to the occupation of Iraq... but I believe that we both think it is at least a major contributor to the 'malaise', as you put it.)