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...members of Congress expect Bush to get that kind of green light. But neither does there appear to be any enthusiasm for invoking the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which instructs a President to withdraw troops 60 days after they are dispatched unless Congress approves the deployment or grants an extension. No President has ever recognized the constitutionality of that Vietnam-era resolution, and Congress has given up hope that it could use such a slender thread to reel in the massive military machine in the gulf...
...Iraqis won't initiate hostilities now," Haggard says. "The only possibility for peace would be if Hussein would unilaterally withdraw. But he's said that he won't do that and Bush has to take action...
...letter comes as Secretary of State James A. Baker III is scheduled to meet with his Iraqi counterpart Tariq Aziz in Geneva today, a meeting which Bush described as a "chance, perhaps a final chance" to convince Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait...
...declaration with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized Lyndon Johnson to use whatever force was necessary to protect U.S. troops in Vietnam. Frustrated by the bootless escalation of that conflict, Congress nine years later overrode Richard Nixon's veto of legislation requiring a President to withdraw troops from hostile areas after 60 days unless Congress approves the deployment. Several Presidents have declared that War Powers Resolution unconstitutional, although none asked the courts for a ruling...
Even granting that sanctions were hurting Iraq, however, could they be counted on to persuade Saddam to withdraw? Baker cautioned the Senate committee that the Iraqi leader could protect chosen segments of his nation for some time. "You can bet the Iraqi people will feel the pain first and most deeply," he said. "Not the Iraqi military and not the government." The question is whether that is any reason not to let sanctions work a while longer -- long enough at least to find out whether the pain will eventually touch Saddam...