Coming GOP War — Over the War!” by Patrick J. Buchanan - December 12, 2006 The Democratic establishment, which gave Bush a blank check to take us to war, "to get the issue out of the way" before the midterms in 2002, is also preparing its defense of the role it played in plunging us into Mesopotamia, the "if-only-we-had-known" defense.
"If only we had known then what we know now — that there was no hard evidence of WMD, no hard evidence of al-Qaida ties to Saddam Hussein — we would never have voted for the war." "If only we had known how incompetent Rumsfeld’s Pentagon would be in managing the war, we would never have given Bush a green light."
The Democrats’ defense begs these questions: Why didn’t you know? Why didn’t you find out? Why didn’t you do your constitutional duty and refuse the president the power to go to war until he had convinced you that only war could spare the republic worse horrors?
The media are celebrating the ISG for its "bipartisanship" and the "consensus" achieved. But was it not a bipartisan consensus that produced the war: a Democratic Senate failing in its duty to ascertain the necessity of a war to be launched by a Republican president, because Democrats feared that telling a popular president "no" would reinforce the party’s reputation as being soft on national security?
Below are links cited in the previous thread.
H.J. Res. 114 “AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002”House
"FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 455"”U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 107th Congress - 2nd Session”NOTE:
1.
Bush invaded Iraq on 19 Mar. 20032.
Republicans controlled the House since January 1995.3.
Republicans controlled the Senate since January 2003.