Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>> but I doubt Congress would have provided the authorization without those sixteen words.<<<

Sorry -- completely wrong -- the 16 words:

President Delivers "State of the Union"
The U.S. Capitol
Jan 28, 2003 9:01 P.M. EST

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

Still true today as when spoken on Jan 28, 2003

However they could not have had any influence on the war resolution
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We were at war with Iraq from 1990 and the congress re-authorized the use of force --

107th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. J. RES. 114
October 10, 2002
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JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.

Whereas in 1990 in response to Iraq's war of aggression against and illegal occupation of Kuwait, the United States forged a coalition of nations to liberate Kuwait and its people in order to defend the national security of the United States and enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions relating to Iraq;

Whereas after the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, Iraq entered into a United Nations sponsored cease-fire agreement pursuant to which Iraq unequivocally agreed, among other things, to eliminate its nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs and the means to deliver and develop them, and to end its support for international terrorism;

and a bunch more of "whereas's"

#msg-1308431

We will have an election on whether we are "murdering" our troops on falsehoods