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Daschle on Board with Iraq Resolution NewsMax.comSenate plurality leader Tom Daschle, while admonishing President Bush to use his unprecedented authority properly, added his support - along with other important congressional Democrats - to a joint resolution on the use of force against Saddam Hussein. "How he exercises that authority will determine how successful he will be," Daschle declared. The Senate voted 75-25 in favor, ending delaying tactics and opening the way for final passage; the House overwhelmingly defeated efforts to weaken the resolution, 355-72. The resolution also allows President Bush to take unilateral action to prevent dictator Saddam Hussein from continuing to build weapons of mass destruction. "I believe it is important for America to speak with one voice ... I will give the president the authority he needs," said Daschle, D-S.D. "For me, the deciding factor is my belief that a united Congress will help the president unite the world. And by uniting the world, we can increase the world's chances of succeeding in this effort." Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., however, continues to hold out against giving the president any authority at all. Byrd, the 84-year-old president pro-tempore of the Senate, said Congress is acting recklessly if it agrees to give the president a "blank check" to take action. "I'm sorry to see this day," Byrd said. "This is my 50th year in Congress, and I never thought that I'd find a Senate which would lack the backbone to stand up against this stampede, this rush to war." Sens. Lincoln Chaffee, R-R.I., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., also voted against the measure. Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., said that without a multilateral approach, "this will be the United States versus Iraq and in some quarters the U.S. versus the Arab and the Muslim world." But Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, seemingly echoed most of Congress when he said, "It's time we go straight to the eye and dismantle the elements from which the storm of brutal, repressive tyranny and terrorism radiate. I can attest to the evilness of Saddam Hussein."
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