Incoherence

I'm still trying to extract the meaning from this quote:

If we hadn't voted the way we voted, we would not have been able to have a chance of going to the United Nations and stopping the president, in effect, who already had the votes and who was obviously asking serious questions about whether or not the Congress was going to be there to enforce the effort to create a threat.

Any takers? ( Speaker was John F Kerry at a Democratic candidates debate in Baltimore, September 2003 ).