Originally Posted by maximusveritas

This was President Bush's war, make no mistake about it. There never was a vote "for" or "against" the war. There was a vote that gave the President the authority to go to war if he needed to. As Kerry and others have explained, they simply voted to give President Bush the loaded gun. They thought he would use that gun responsibly, only as a last resort, only after he had the backing of our allies, and only if he had a plan to win the peace. Unfortunately, President Bush didn't do any of that and he bears the primary responsibility for the mess we've gotten into.