06-27-2012, 07:10 PM
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(06-27-2012, 06:42 AM)Twitchin Kitten Wrote: Congress didn't have to vote yes to the war. No matter what they had put in front of them, they didn't have to vote yes.
To top it off......the Senate voted 98 - 0 in favor and the house had only 1 no vote.
That being the case, regardless of later reasoning, only one out of all the lawmakers seated at the time had any room to bitch.
As far as the whole WMD thing, all those who voted saw the intel, if they thought it was flawed then why did they vote in favor of the declaration of war?
No matter how you slice it, Bush had over 500 partners in that decision.
Since then most of the intel gathering agencies now share information. This was not the case prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Had it been, maybe we wouldn't have gone. However, you can't put the genie back in the bottle once it's uncorked.
The aftermath of Saddam's demise was where the COLOSSAL mishandling began and remains to this day......3 1/2 YEARS into Obama's administration.