Current Resolution: We decided we aren't going to drink Coke anymore.
All the arguments that are being made against the current resolution would also have been made at that time.
Still, many House Democrats criticized the reach of the current resolution and the broad latitude it would give the president.
He told a security conference in Munich that adopting the current resolution would risk "taking sides in a civil war".
The current resolution allows President Bush to wage war as long as he informs Congress within 48 hours after the onset of military action.
That is a change from Resolution mark one, the previous company founded by Clive Cowdery who is also behind the current Resolution.
One reason cited in the report was the likelihood that it would "undermine the current resolution" of bonus negotiations between the two parties, even though the bonus pertained to the Nigerian definition of reserves, not the stricter S.E.C. definition.
A senior Indian diplomat in New York said today that some United Nations diplomats were arguing that the current resolution acknowledging the allies' control could be amended to meet the concerns expressed in New Delhi, Moscow and Paris.
Mr. Negroponte glancingly mentioned the issue of a resolution during the Council session, diplomats said, but only by noting that the current resolution would allow other states to give military aid.
But his response to the current resolution could well determine whether there is any wind left in the sails of the peace flotilla he launched with his speeches in Egypt and Turkey directed at the Muslim world.
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, offered few indications of being swayed by the current resolution, saying during a visit to Tajikistan that sanctions are "annoying flies, like a used tissue".
