Anybody who wants to learn the facts about the UN Resolutions concerning the Saddam Hussein period in Iraq can find the actual text for each one at the UN website.

Anyone who wants the learn about the three major military authorizations (Iraq, 1991; Afghanistan, 2001; Iraq, 2002) can find full text versions at the usgov.org/ website. Also shows the House and Senate vote counts with names.

History is always more accurate than news because the "opinion" gets weeded-out and "fact" remains.

In late 2008, even as we were getting ready to elect Obama, polls showed that 58% of the American people recognized the Iraq military actions were necesssary and that they were going as well as could be expected. Essentially, successful.