The Iraq War retrospective Thread

[Thecla]

If Obama is elected (probable) then I suspect Bush will find it hard to get congress to go along with anything he wants.

Perhaps, but as far as I can see Bush has in fact managed to do exactly what he wants even with a democratically controlled congress, who (according to Seymour Hersh anyway) had to approve funding for covert operations against Iran.

Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.