As the sign that secretaries like says...
[link|http://www.officeplayground.com/lackplanning.html|Lack of planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part.]
He is right. If Bush wants to finally engage the Iraq problem, it is hasty to start with asking for a blanket resolution that dismantles one of the basic protections that lie between the Republic and tyranny.
Bush has started a process. Let that process work. And if in that process Bush decides that war is necessary, then ask the legislative branch for the appropriate declaration. But not until.
Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]