Iraq vote and Democrats

[blueinindiana]

In the run up to the war Democrats were put on the defensive on Iraq with 9/11 hanging over their heads.

I think there was an easy way not to get boxed in….

I would have said….

While I personally do not believe Iraq and Saddam Hussein rise to the level of threat that warrants attack. I will however give the President the benefit of the doubt, the administration claims to have intelligence that shows Iraq as a growing threat. I just hope their actions will be justified.

[CTLawGuy]

1. Congress should demand proof before empowering the president to go to war

war was not meant to be instituted at the discretion of one person. Congress must ask for the intelligence and make its own determination that war is necessary and only then should it give the president war-making powers.

Congress makes policy, not the president. The president is supposed to execute the policies that Congress sets forth. That is central to the idea of separation of powers. Otherwise the president is no less than a king.

If we do as you say, then the president embarasses himself and us at the expense of thousands of lives.

That is not an acceptable mechanism of warmaking.

[cali]

2. Huh?

That's what plenty of them said, and it was just wrong. Lest we forget, not all democrats voted for the Iraq War. I'm proud to say that both my Senators and my rep voted against it. Senator Leahy, in his speech before the vote, compared the supposed proof of threat to the bogus Gulf of Tonkin incident.