The Democrats, who were still running the US Senate in 2002, insisted that they get in on the act. They pushed thur the authorization of force as a Campaign year PR gesture. It was completely irrelevant to the legal case for liberating Iraq. The Administration never considered it, and does not now consider it, relevant.
It is foolish to insist on re-fighting and re fighting an argument you have lost every time you have brought it up since 2002 What you feel about Iraq is completely irrelevant
Nice you have feeling about what should of been done before going into Iraq Too bad that is all they are, feelings. They are wholly emotion based and irrelevant.
You are correct that there was no DoW needed for Iraq.
But without it, the politicians were allowed to squirm and wiggle their ways out of support and turn events against Bush.
A ‘resolution of force’ can be ambiguous; a declaration of war is not.