Nixon had to pull the troops for Vietnam because the Democrat controlled House voted on zero dollars for the war in the 1974 budget. When IX42 sent the troops to Haiti and Bosnia, J. D. Hayworth brought this up every time there was a discussion on supporting our troops that IX42 deployed without consultation with congress.
Stormin Norman told congress to stay out of the day-to-day operations of the Gulf War and we accomplished our objective. Liberals were screaming we had no mandate to get Saddam but now they are revising history by saying Bush should have gone after him. Liberals will revise when ever it's to their advantage.
You make some good points about liberals and revising history. Brit Hume and Sean Hannity have played the film clips of leading Demons beating the war drums in '98 and flip flopping in 2002.
Your comment about Nixon and no appropriation for 1974--that's news to me. I think the NVA could care less whether we had the money allocated or not. It took six months just to decide the shape of the damn table the peace talks were held on in Paris.And you're right, the Sink Emperor never allocated money for any of his foreign schemes.