[BigSkyFreeper]

Yup, and Bush ended up fudging around with the Germans, French, and the Russians at the UN for 6 months when we didn't need to, because the authorization was already in place around November 1998 and was to remain in place so long as Saddam was in flagrant violation of UN resolutions from the moment it was drafted.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I think if the Democrats want a full account of so called "intelligence failures" the independent panel should go back to the end of Gulf War I, right up to the point we liberated Baghdad.