Senators, Like Everyone Else, Want To Feel

This President Failed So Miserably In Diplomacy That We Are Now Forced To War.

We Will Also Never Bring Up The Permanent Tax Cut The President Is Advocating.

People Were Concerned About National Security, And That Precluded Us From Having The Opportunity To Break Through On The Issues That We Cared Most About - The Economy, Education And Health Care.

Literally Minutes Before The Senate Cast Its Vote, The Administration Sought To Add The Words 'in The United States And' After 'appropriate Force' In The Agreed-upon Text. This Last-minute Change Would Have Given The President Broad Authority To Exercise Expansive Powers Not Just Overseas-where We All Understood He Wanted Authority To Act-but Right Here In The United States, Potentially Against American Citizens. I Could See No Justification For Congress To Accede To This Extraordinary Request For Additional Authority. I Refused.

President Bush Failed "miserably" At Diplomacy, Forcing The United States Into War.