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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
What if the Democratic minority in congress took a principled stand and en masse voted against the 2002 authorization of force? The senate could have stopped it given that there was 1 Republican that voted against it and the GOP did not have a majority there.