Did every person in congress vote to go to war in Iraq?

Question

Was the congress a republican majority? I see people justifying Bush's war by saying that congress voted for it. Do you think that ALL of congress voted for it? In my state, my reps voted against it...and one of them is a senior member on the Iraq Study group, trying to work in a bipartisan way to help this administration out of the mess they got themselves into...

Yes, and the majority was republican.

Iraq, not Afghanistan

Answer 1

Friday, October 11, 2002 : Hours earlier, the House approved an identical resolution, 296-133. Senate early Friday voted 77-23.


--Sidenote: I was in the Army, All my friends are in the 4 Branches, and even my family. Our lives depended on his one judgement. Which was a lie. No one died when bill clinton lied, and he got impeached (not forced to resign though), and bush gets to sit there doodling all day?! Somethings just not right.

Answer 2

Only the smart ones. Given the situation at the time I think it would have been irresponsible to have voted no.

There's NO way to answer the "If I knew then what I know now" question. We will never know what Saddam would have done had we NOT toppled him! I would guess, though, that it would have taken some a nanosecond to blame Bush for not "connecting the dots." And they would have been right.

Answer 3

First of all it was an authorization to give bush the power to use force IF NECESSARY, not a declaration of war. Many senators thought bush would just smartly use it as leverage, as clinton did, and we now know that clinton's containment policies worked perfectly, because Saddam had no WMD.

Secondly, many senators and congressmen including John Edwards voted against the authorization.

Answer 4

Actually, 126 Democrats in the House and 21 Democrats in the Senate voted against the lie-based Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002:

Only SIX REPUBLICANS in the House and ONE Republican in the Senate voted against the LIE-BASED QUAGMIRE.

So, the notion peddled by rightwingers that Democrats SHARE RESPONSIBILITY because a MINORITY OF DEMOCRATS BELIEVED THE LIES ABOUT WMD, is patently RIDICULOUS.

Answer 5

Well accually the Congress didn't vote to go to war. It was all Bush's idea. He declared war, even though you rightfully has no power to do so.
However I do think that going there was a good idea, because if we don't fight them there, they will come here. Very few people nowadays think about what the government is doing.

Have a great new year.

Answer 6

A majority of Congress did indeed vote for it, and that was all that was needed. However, if you want the exact statistics, look at www.senate.gov and www.house.gov to see who voted how.

Answer 7

77-23 in the Senate and 296-133 in the House.

Congress wasn't that one-sided.

Answer 8

There were a few intelligent people in congress that did not buy into the BS story that the pres was shoveling, and they voted against.

Answer 9

All the senators and all buy one representative voted to go to war originally...

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

Answer 10

And this is your "conservative" independent judgment?

Doesn't look very moderate to me.