Is that why his speech from Oct 2002 is posted on Lew Rockwell and Antiwar.com?
Anyone can post his speech. He doesn’t copyright them.
He didn’t want to vote on the crap being proposed and passed by Congress, which above all gives credence to the UN and cedes more of our sovereignty, below that it gives power to the president usually reserved by congress and allows for for the politicization of the ‘war’ for elections if the war goes badly. I don’t doubt he would have voted against his own declaration of war against Iraq if it came to a vote.
It is true he didn’t want war but I feel his principles dictated to him that he proposes a Declaration of Wars a constitutional alternative to what was being passed. Congress ignored this. Said ‘Declarations of Wars are archaic’ and not needed anymore. (which is similar argument they use with most of the Constitution, especially with the 2nd amendment). Instead we got what we got.