Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, said believes Iraq is a real threat, but added that the White House has more convincing to do on Capitol Hill and to the American people before asking Congress to approve a use-of-force resolution against Iraq.
However, the argument that resolution 1441 alone has revived the authorisation to use force in resolution 678 will only be sustainable if there are strong factual grounds for concluding that Iraq has failed to take the final opportunity.
The Soviets stalled Security Council approval of the "use of force" resolution for days.
The main force behind this resolution, which was sponsored on its behalf, is the 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Also the president's lawyers looked at the 1991 Persian Gulf Resolution, authorizing the use of force against Iraq, and the resolution passed by Congress in September, giving the president the authority to use whatever means necessary in this war on terror.
But all except one of the Democrats' leading presidential candidates supported the congressional resolution authorising force.
Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, said he wants the Senate to vote on a resolution of force soon.
But he abstained on the resolution authorising force in Libya (having originally wanted to vote no, it is said).
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But most of them cannot do this because they voted in favour of last year's congressional resolution authorising force in Iraq.
The American and British governments have long known that any resolution authorising force would be vetoed by Russia and China, both permanent members of the council.
At the UN, Russia and the US are locked in frantic discussions about a tough new resolution to force Mr Hussein surrender weapons of mass destruction.
If the dispute cannot be resolved using these mechanisms, then the matter will be referred on the next business day to a disputes resolution task force for a binding decision.
Friday, Bush turned up the heat on Democrats, lashing out at the suggestion that Congress ought to wait for the United Nations to act before approving a resolution of force against Iraq.
Chris Dodd, chairman of the Banking Committee, reminded fellow Democrats what a bad political situation it would be to pass the disapproval resolution and force Obama use his veto pen on it as one of his very first acts, the senators said.
Security Council authorized Member States to establish a NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) in Resolution 1244 on June 10, 1999.
Fatah's first significant move to part company with Washington came with its relentless bid to force a vote on a resolution condemning Israeli construction in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria at the UN Security Council.
The final reason that taking on Hagel is extraordinarily risky for the GOP is that Hagel's most famous maverick move was coming out as a critic of President George W. Bush's war in Iraq despite the fact that he had supported the original resolution to use force if necessary.
But the resolution does not authorise force, let alone give America carte blanche for such actions.
No formal announcement on Britain's role is expected until next week, timed to coincide with a UN Security Council resolution giving the security force a mandate.
Even if every General Assembly member except Israel votes in favor of a resolution recognizing "Palestine, " all the Palestinians will have achieved is another non-binding resolution, with no force of law, asserting the same thing that thousands of UN resolutions already assert.
Some of the steps we were able to take in the Security Council came when the United States was willing to say, whether you support a resolution creating a peacekeeping force for Darfur or not, we're going to press ahead for a vote, can change their behavior.
He vetoed first an American resolution calling on both belligerents to withdraw and on other states to refrain from using or threatening force in the area, and then a Russian resolution which left out the second part of the exhortation.
There is no Security Council resolution which imposes an arms embargo in Lebanon and such force would have as its obligation to report any violation of this particular Security Council resolution.
But a resolution endorsing the use of force would almost certainly run into a veto.
Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to liquidate such uninspected facilities by that time.
Last year, Sudan rejected a U.N. force and only agreed to accept the hybrid force spelled out in Tuesday's resolution after months of negotiations.
Security Council resolution on the use of force to liberate Kuwait.
The rebels were soon backed by NATO airstrikes, launched in March under a Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to protect civilians from reprisals.
Kerry voted against committing U.S. troops in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, but he supported the October congressional resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq.
This, according to American officials, means there is no need to seek a further resolution to disarm Saddam by force, even though it may be desirable.
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