When a president, not long after an attack like 9.11, implores the Congress to give him the authority, if needed, to use the military to enforce U.N. resolutions against Iraq because they pose a threat and blurs the line between Saddam Hussein (who wouldn't allow inspectors into Iraq) and Al-Qaeda, it's not easy to deny him that. So they gave him the authority to decide.
Even after getting the inspectors back in, he decided to have the U.N. replaced with our military.
I guess you didn't know this but the 1991 Desert Storm war was never over but there was a "1991 CEASE FIRE"!
- Five weeks after the United States and it allies drove Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's army from Kuwait, Iraq said yesterday that it will accept United Nations terms for a formal cease-fire in the Persian Gulf war.
In accepting the conditions, the National Assembly in Baghdad, which follows Mr. Hussein's dictates, called the arrangement "unjust," but it acknowledged that Iraq had little choice if it was to avert further degradation.
The message of Iraqi acceptance was delivered in New York to the offices of the U.N. secretary-general and to the chairman of the
Security
Council by the Iraqi representative at the United Nations, Abdul Amir al-Anbari. He told reporters that Iraq
Iraq accepts U.N.'s terms for cease-fire Strict conditions to be met before allies withdraw WAR IN THE GULF
Again, no one is claiming Bush could not invade Iraq. We're saying he shouldn't have. The cease fire has nothing to do with that.
OH so the nearly two dozen violations of the 1991 Cease Fire should have been ignored again by GWB?
Didn't seem to work for Clinton and like his wife he had no balls to uphold the Cease Fire even though UN sanctions allowed resumption. Even though terrorists
attacked WTC in 1993. Even though Clinton had Osama in Somalia but because he again didn't have the balls let the guy go.
The Iraq war was a huge mistake and didn't have to be, or should have been, launched.
NO here was the big mistake! Idiots like the below and probably you telling the bad guys Americans were the bad guys! You probably agree with these statements
and you along with the terrorists believe them. Consequently as a Harvard study showed you idiots like the below gave encouragement to the bad guys!
Idiots like you and the below telling our troops our country WE are the bad guys and the terrorists are the good guys... was it no wonder idiots like you think
that saving 1.4 million children from starvation was wrong!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "
War is lost",
U.S. Rep. Murtha(D) "
Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Senator Kerry(D) "
American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Senator Obama(D) .."
troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Now I'm going to prove that the above statements were more of a recruiting tool of terrorists because these comments have been shown to increase violence!
This Harvard showed :
THE "EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT" asked:
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The short answer is YES!!!
According to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center
at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
STUDY ABSTRACT
Are insurgents affected by information on US casualty sensitivity? Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across
Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to
information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
We find in periods after a spike in war-critical statements, insurgent attacks increases by 5-10 percent.
The results suggest that insurgent groups respond rationally to expected probability of US withdrawal.
So when idiots like you telling the bad guys they are the good guys and all Americans are the bad guys what the hell would you expect???