Reply #7: Congress didn't vote for war. Blaming congress lets Bush off the hook. [View All]

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Congress voted for a resolution, much like the one Dean was for, that gave guidelines to prevent war by using weapons inspectors FIRST to scope out the need for an invasion.

Dean, nor most of congress, would have voted FOR starting a war with no attempt to avoid one first.

When people blame the Congress or the IWR they are plain wrong. The IWR, if implemented HONESTLY, would have prevented an invasion.

Bush was going in with or without a resolution, based on the 1991 UN resolution, which would have been technically legal. The IWR forced him into steps he didn't want to take and in the long run gave the world a full view of Bush's duplicity the way he treated the weapons inspections.