No, it did not.
In fact, Congress gave the President a blanket authorization to use military force.
The Republicans were still pretending that Bush wasn’t going to start a war, and DeLay and Hastert were giving empty assertions that no military action would take place unless Iraq was declared in breach of the inspections regime.
As the winter of 2003 turned into spring, and it became more and more obvious that mushroom clouds, weapons of mass destruction or iminent threat to the US only existed in the imaginations of Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld, the need to accelerate starting the war became more apparent before the American public started to get wise to the fact that none of this noise that was being blasted on talk radio and Fox (and by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Lutti, Faith, Wolfowitz and Pearle) was actually true (as it turned out not to be).
So, in order for Bush to start his war, he first started to try and railroad the UN into supporting the war. When it became apparent that France, Russia and Germany were competing over who would veto the resolution (one of the very few times that a UN resolution was vetoed by a US ally), Bush abruptly changed course and started the war.
