Reply #11: It's your privilege to think what you want, [View All]

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but, the Levin amendment, if passed wouldn't have brought Bush back to Congress. There was no way he was going to submit himself to a congressional vote which restrained him from exercising his assumed prerogative under the War Powers Act (as he ultimately did) to mobilize and deploy troops for a period of time without prior congressional approval. But, you go on and dream that Bush would have regarded the will of Congress any more than he did the provisions in the Iraq resolution which passsed; even to imagine that Bush would have returned for the judgment of a Congress hostile to his stated intention to invade.