By now, everyone has read Sen. Robert Byrd’s concerns: ‘How have we gotten to this low point in the history of Congress? Are we too feeble to resist the demands of a president who is determined to bend the collective will of Congress to his will— a president who is changing the conventional understanding of the term “self-defense”? And why are we allowing the executive to rush our decision-making right before an election? Congress, under pressure from the executive branch, should not hand away its Constitutional powers. We should not hamstring future Congresses by casting such a shortsighted vote. We owe our country a due deliberation.’ NY Times While Byrd gives lipservice to the mockery of the term self-defense that the Bush Doctrine entails, he is unfortunately far less concerned with the merits of the upcoming war than the preservation of Congressional prerogatives. Is this the fullest extent of “antiwar” sentiment that will emanate from among our elected “leaders”??