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It has to do with Bush having made such a forceful (a la read-my-lips) statement about how he WOULD have the vote come hell or high water. If there is now no vote, the press and the liberals will hammer him about the flip-flop without mercy from now until the election. It doesn't matter that the point is moot anyway. The cry of like-father-like-son will be yelled incessantly. You watch.

I'm not buying it. W. has not mindlessly shouted "Vote or Bust!" like Spook Daddy screamed "No New Taxes!" 5,000 times on national television and made it his central campaign promise and then proceeded to break the promise. Spook Daddy's retraction hit people in the pocket. W. not going for a U.N. vote costs nothing cause the majority of Americans consider it worthless and toothless to begin with.

And in the midst of a war, is the press going to try to sell dead trees with "But he promised us a vote...". Don't think so. And afterward, there'll be better things to talk about. There may be a little whining but it can hardly become a major issue. The Democrats can't really use it effectively because most of their legislators and all of their leadership endorsed Bush going to war. And the official policy of the Democrat party is that we never need U.N. permission for war (exception: Howard Dean).

Speaking of 'Spook Daddy Bush', can you explain something to me, please. An attorney friend of mine years ago, soon after X41's departure from public office, said that one of the last things that Daddy Bush did was to grant extensively greater powers to the U.N. I did not ask him about it back then (I was still in my own nice, little world), so don't know precisely what measures he was talking about. Do you know?
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And in the midst of a war, is the press going to try to sell dead trees with "But he promised us a vote...". Don't think so. And afterward, there'll be better things to talk about.

And had there been a vote, with bush winning 10... the press would have still said... we failed to win a majority level support amongst our allies...

GWB, I hope you're right. Robert, yes, they'll hammer him no matter what. They are the liberal press, after all. I just know how they and their fellow elected Democrats work, and when a Republican gives a unequivocal answer about something they are or are not going to do and then does something else, they pay dearly for it. We'll see how it plays out.