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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Are you really this stupid? He voted to give the President discretion. This is Congress's role. If the President used the discretion to make stupid decisions, you hold the President accountable, not the Congress. It's not like Congress knew that the President was intent on doing the wrong thing.
October 2002 was before Hans Blix (e.g.) couldn't find WMD. At that point, the President might have changed course. Kerry should be held accountable because Bush made bad decisions? I don't think so.
Did he? No. Congress authorizes the use of force, but there's only one CIC. eta: Kerry's not saying he made a mistake in giving the President discretion, he's saying the President misused that discretion. It's really not that hard.
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If Kerry really thought that he was conditioning that discretion on the existence of WMD, the resolution should have said exactly that. It didn't and now he is trying to get out of his responsibilities.
