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Rockefeller: Bush decided 'long time ago' to go to war

America will declare war against Iraq regardless of how the United Nations Security Council votes, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said Tuesday.
Rockefeller, who returned to the country Saturday following a week-long visit to Pakistan, Kuwait and Afghanistan, said based on private conversations he's had with President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others in the administration, he believes war with Iraq is inevitable.
"I think the president has made up his mind, and whether we get the votes or don't get the votes, I think we're going to go to war," the senator said, adding Bush "made up his mind a long time ago ..."