Reply #63: I really don't Care if Bush would have "cared" or not...... [View All]

[FrenchieCat]

cause that is not the issue at hand (plus, I disagree that he "didn't really care" at all.....otherwise, he would'nt have gone through the trouble), the issue was the actions of our senators.

Please know that I see it slightly differently from your "Shrug the shoulder, oh well, wouldn't have matter anyway" stance.

The way that I see it, had all Dems voted "NAY", the IWR (that Blank Check one that Lierberman wrote) would not have passed, and Bush would have had to find another way.

Would he have? I'm sure that he most likely would have.....however, it doesn't absolve our Senators' accountability as to their duties and responsibility to the American People...which, in this case, would have been to make it as difficult as possible (based on what each could do) for the President to wage war that wasn't warranted.

There were 21 Senators that Voted "NO". Explain to me how their vote didn't make them any wiser than those who voted "YES"?

Note that George Bush also said the following in that same link you provided....

"The debate over this resolution in the Congress was in the finest traditions of American democracy. There is no social or political force greater than a free people united in a common and compelling objective. It is for that reason that I sought an additional resolution of support from the Congress to use force against Iraq, should force become necessary."
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=64386

This means that Senators who supported the Resolution were complicit in allowing George Bush an easier "Go" at Iraq. Had the Resolution failed to pass, George Bush would have had a much harder time in doing what he wanted done. The Senators' responsibility was to do just that; to make it difficult, not to make it easier....