BH) Whereas, President Bush invaded Iraq without a declaration of war; (BH
BG) Irrelevant. Congress authorized Bush to take military action in Iraq. (BG I know. The resolution leaves it to the reader to decide whether the invasion was unconstitutional. For us liberventionists, the choices are either 1) a resolution like this, or 2) play chicken with a more extreme resolution and hope it won't pass. I don't the the LP should be officially silent on the question of what to do now in Iraq (as opposed to what should have been done in 2003), so I prefer (1). BG) Does the halt to nation-building in Afghanistan stop US military forces from preventing a return to power of the Taliban / al Qaeda government? (BG I would interpret it as allowing efforts toward such prevention, with nation-building not being among them. We could let allies or regional powers or the UN work on nation-building.
