Reply #117: A few ways [View All]

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First it requires repeated consultation with congress, Write it off if you will but the uglier the war becomes the more teeth that provision has. There would likely have bbeen no haliburton sweetheart deals if that provision had been in place.

Also the language directing the support of the war dirrectly at WMD covered by the UN resolutions changes the focus of congresses support away from a regime change scenario. Had he gone to the UN under the pretext of only addressing the removal of wmd the UN would have likely have signed on or have come up with a resolution adressing specifically the WMD and nothing else. Then the focus would have changed to proof of a threat from the WMD in order to ignore the UN. Which the UN was allready covering with the inspectors on the ground. No proof of wmd ever came. There would have been a UN Resolution addressing what congresss had voted for so he couldnt come back and say the UN wasnt acting.