Mike Levin: “I vehemently disagree. I urge the Senator from Connecticut to read the language, which flat out says: We affirm ``the…”

“I vehemently disagree. I urge the Senator from Connecticut to read the language, which flat out says: We affirm ``the United States has at all times the inherent right to use military force in self-defense. . . .'' We affirm that. The Senator from Connecticut, in the resolution in 1991, did not even affirm that. It just simply authorized the President to use military force pursuant to the United Nations Security Council resolution. No one suggested then that anyone was ceding the power to use our force to the United Nations. Yet in our resolution, the alternative resolution, the multilateral resolution, for some reason, the folks who are supporting the go-it-alone resolution are suggesting we are ceding something to the U.N. when we explicitly reaffirm our right to self-defense.”