Senate war resolution not guaranteed

Wishy-washy California moderate Dianne Feinstein is the latest senator to argue against war:

America has never been an aggressor nation unless attacked, as we were at Pearl Harbor and on Sept. 11, or our interests and our allies were attacked. We have never initiated a major invasion against another nation-state, which leads to the question of whether a pre-emptive war is the morally right, legally right, or the politically right way for the United States to proceed.

I'm starting a "War Watch" list on the left-hand column of this site. A couple of caveats: Note that I write "lean", since positions may shift in the coming weeks. Also, for my tally, a vote against war means a vote against a unilateral invasion of Iraq without U.N. backing. There's no way the US gets UN backing, thus if the Senate insists on international authorization before any invasion, that position effectively is a "no" vote on war.

Posted September 07, 2002 10:11 AM | Comments (9)