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   From: alohacyberian@att.net   
      
   "mrraveltay"  wrote in message   
   news:zbCMb.3329$vl6.535@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com...   
   > Me wrote:   
   > >   
   > > True, but war was never authorized. Further, a lot of the intelligence   
   > > data that drove that opinion is now known to be seriously flawed.   
   >   
   > Is it your view that Congress did not give the President the authority   
   > to do this? If this was the case, then you would [have thought] Congress   
   (or The   
   > Supremes) would have said something.   
   >   
   Congress overwhelmingly gave Bush the authority to join the allied invasion   
   of Iraq and the intelligence available to Bush was the same as the   
   intelligent available to members of Congress. Some latter-day naysayers claim   
   that Congress was duped into giving approval, but, would never have done so   
   had it "known what it knows now". But, the people who make such melodramatic   
   statements are quick to overlook the fact that when Bush returned much later   
   to request about 86 billion dollars for the occupation and rebuilding of   
   Iraq, he got the money. Now if Congress were really opposed to the   
   Administation's policies in Iraq, why did they cough up the cash? The   
   rhetoric spewing from the bash-Bush camp doesn't hold water, so somebody's   
   mistaken or somebody's lying somewhere. KM   
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