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22. The IWR met the definition perfectly

As it was written to. The IWR didn't say Bush could go to war at will. The resolution "supported" and "encouraged" diplomatic efforts by President George W. Bush to "strictly enforce through the U.N. Security Council all relevant Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq" and "obtain prompt and decisive action by the Security Council to ensure that Iraq abandons its strategy of delay, evasion, and noncompliance and promptly and strictly complies with all relevant Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq."

When Kerry and Clinton and Biden and the rest voted for it, it was under that definition - diplomatic efforts to enforce through the UN all UN security resolutions.

Liberal internationalists are deeply committed to international institutions and their legal processes.The objective of liberal internationalism is and has always been a foreign policy doctrine that argues liberal states should intervene in other sovereign states in order to pursue liberal objectives. Such intervention can include both military invasion and humanitarian aid.

Democrats who voted for the IWR all invoked it: Coalitions. Humanitarian aspects.

Bush misused the power to be sure but to state the IWR and the reasoning Democrats invoked was not liberal internationalism is nothing more than 'progressive' redefining of the term out of convenience.