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To: Leaning Right

And for all the grief I give GWB on Iraq he did actually go to Congress for Authorization


16 posted on 06/18/2025 10:03:39 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

> And for all the grief I give GWB on Iraq he did actually go to Congress for Authorization <

True. But that authorization was less due to the strength of GWB’s argument, and more due to the cowardice of Congress. Congress was scared of taking a stand, and perhaps being wrong. So they transferred their war-making power to W.

We saw the same thing with LBJ and the Golf of Tonkin resolution.

As much as I despise LBJ, I despise W more. W had all of LBJ’s Vietnam mistakes right before him. Yet W repeated them all.

(Sorry for the rant. Insomnia does that to me.)


19 posted on 06/18/2025 10:26:50 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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