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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 02:17 AM
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33. So you would have preferred it if the IWR in October had been defeated?
So that in January the new Republican majorities would have been free to pass their own IWR that would have given Bush a blank check to attack anywhere in the Middle East?

Bush had the Democrats between a rock and a hard place. They only had two choices: provide some votes for a compromise IWR with some conditions in October, 2002. Or wait till January, 2003, when they could sit on the sidelines and watch the Republicans pass their own IWR giving Bush a blank check.

They thought the conditions would be adhered to. They weren't. But at least the IWR didn't give Bush permission to attack anywhere in the Middle East. That's the version of the IWR that the administration wanted.
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