WI: Dubya invaded Iraq without Congress's approval

What if instead of asking Congress to vote on Iraq, Dubya used the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists to invade Iraq?
 
He gets impeached, especially when they don't find WMDS and he might be tried for war crimes, he and his administration.
 
As soon as it was obvious we were winning he'd go back and ask for (or maybe Congress would just approve without being asked) a DOW. Success has a thousand friends.
 
GWB would be impeached and removed immediately when it would be clear that in Iraq is not WMDs.
 
Bush would just dare Congress to do some-
thing about it, they wouldn’t of course, &
that would be that. Nobody(Congress, the
American people)would care in the least.
 
He kind of did, since there was no declaration of war.

It’s interesting, isn’t it Drunk, that nowadays
Declarations of War are regarded as these
quaint, thoroughly outdated things which no
POTUS need bother with. This was NOT the
intent of the founders- they most definitely
did NOT want to give the POTUS unlimited
power to wage war as he see fits- but now-
adays, that is what we have.
 
It’s interesting, isn’t it Drunk, that nowadays
Declarations of War are regarded as these
quaint, thoroughly outdated things which no
POTUS need bother with. This was NOT the
intent of the founders- they most definitely
did NOT want to give the POTUS unlimited
power to wage war as he see fits- but now-
adays, that is what we have.


Blame Truman and the Congress under Nixon.
 
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