I have a suggestion, one that if it had been followed a few years back would have saved us this period of national anguish.

I interpreted this to mean that you thought the war in Iraq had not been declared properly, and my quotation of the legislation was meant to show that although there wasn't a "declaration of war" in those exact words, the authorization to use military force against Iraq was properly made.

We wasted many critical months trying to get the approval of the U.N., too.

I doubt that either of these would have significantly changed the current behaviors on both sides of the U.S. political aisle. The first Gulf War was approved by the U.N., and the war in Bosnia was not, but I suspect that the only reason they didn't destroy their respective administrations was their brevity.