Reply #14: Voting for the Iraq War resolution was a bad thing to do [View All]

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If there was supposed to be concrete evidence of WMD's then it was Congress's proper role to demand this evidence.

Also, it is not clear to me why Congress had to pass any sort of resolution so far in advance of the Iraq invasion itself. Why couldn't the resolution have been debated and voted on in March 2003, after all of the "evidence" was in?

Congress, at the very least, should have made its way-too-early resolution contingent on UN support (this is what I would have demanded had I been a Congressperson). By UN support, I mean UN military. If I recall correctly, the Bush Administration was saying that they were going to convince the UN, so it would have been difficult for the Bush administration to complain about such a condition.

I would still vote for any of the Democratic candidates over *, of course. However, voting for the resolution was extremely bad judgement and it is a definite minus for any candidate who voted for it (Kerry) or would have voted for it (perhaps Clark).