not. if we do not say explicitly we will abide by this vote, you're making a joke of us. you're making us into theater. we play constitutional theater for the president. if this is real, you will abide by the verdict of congress. you're probably going to win, just go ahead and say it's real and let's have a real debate in this country and not a meaningless debate that in the end you lose and you say oh, well, we had the authority anyway. we're going to go ahead and go to war anyway. a couple of items. >> senator, i assure you there's nothing meaningless and there is everything real about what has happened here. >> only if our vote makes a difference, only if our vote is binding is it meaningful. >> i will leave to the man who was elected to to be president of the united states the responsibility for telling you what his decision is. if and when that memt came. but the president intends to win this vote. and he's not going to make prior announcements. >> we've had a lot of discussion about whether or not we're going