so. The US needs stronger national and international rules to control a war-mongering president, including both Congressional and UN resultions. Even those such as himself, who supported the Iraq war because "it might bring freedom and democracy to people who had been gassed, tortured and killed for 30 years" must admit that if the vote had been squarely put to the American people, they probably would have voted to stay home. Congress and the media failed to put the president's case for war under scrutiny and this failure hasn't done democracy any good.