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Clarifying the issue
Buck Galaxy — (archived)

It does indeed seem to be a convoluted issue but there is a very clear point:

On April 28, 1999, the House of Representatives defeated S. Con. Res. 21, supporting military air operations and missile strikes against Yugoslavia, by a 213 to 213 vote. Majority Leader DeLay voted against the Resolution supporting the military operation and actively lobbied against it.

Here would be a more exact analogy than the one I wrote earlier:

Let's say Bush did not invade Iraq with ground troops in an unprovoked invasion, but instead had launched an airstrike-only campaign in response to Saddam conducting a genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign against Kurdistan. While that airstrike campaign was being waged the leadership of a democratically controlled Congress worked actively to undermine Bush's ability to wage that campaign to the point of defeating a Congressional Resolution of support for our armed forces. This would mean the campaign must end in 90 days or it would violate the war powers act. You think that might give aid and comfort to Saddam (As it did Milosovic)?

What do you think of the republican leadship's actions in this case?

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