Reply #29: Basic inter-branch government relations.... [View All]

[suston96]

The Executive comes to Congress for money and authorizations for federal budgets and such. The Executive presents detailed plans and evidence for such requests. Congress does its own due diligence and may even hold hearings.

When the Executive Branch, the President and his Secretary of State and the rest of his Cabinet, swear that Hussein had WMD that threaten the United States and its allies, Congress acts.

That's the way it works. Congress accepted the proof that the Executive presented based on constitutional policy of historical standards - it must accept what the Executive offers validated by so called classified intelligence.

Now it was the Congress and not Hillary Clinton alone that voted for the resolution, and again, it was NOT a vote for wars of pre-emption. It was NOT a blank check either - because Congress had to approve any funds for anything the Executive wanted to do.

Get it? Educate yourselves on basic government operation before trashing one single invidual and laying the burden of what happened with the Iraq War and its funding on her shoulders based only on partisanship. There were others who voted for the resolution AND its funding. Remember?