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Why did the House and 77 to 23 of the Senate vote in October 2002, 4 months before the SOTU address, to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq? I'd like an answer on this one.

Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, said giving Bush the authority to attack Iraq could avert war by demonstrating the United States is willing to confront Saddam over his obligations to the United Nations.
"I believe we have an obligation to protect the United States by preventing him from getting these weapons and either using them himself or passing them or their components on to terrorists who share his destructive intent," said Gephardt, who helped draft the measure.

Now either the majority of those voting did not check out all the facts available and voted, or at the time they fully understood the consequences of not doing their duty.