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[BathingApes]

A declaration of war is a formal declaration issued by a national government indicating that a state of war exists between that nation, and one or more others. For the United States, Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution says "Congress shall have power to ... declare War," however, that passage provides no specific format for what form legislation text must have to be considered a "Declaration of War" nor does the Constitution itself use this term. Many have postulated "Declaration(s) of War" must contain that phrase as or within the title. Many oppose that reasoning. The postulate has not been tested in court; however, this article will use the term "formal Declaration of War" to mean Congressional legislation that uses the phrase "Declaration of War" in the title.

Despite the constitutional requirement that Congress declare war, in practice, formal Declarations of War have occurred only upon prior request by the President.

After World War II, Congress voluntarily limited its use of the power to declare war to issuing authorizations of force. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (Pub.L. 93-148) limits the power of the President to wage war without the approval of the Congress. The United States of America has formally declared war against foreign nations five separate times.
Declaration of war by the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And Congress did with BOTH Afghanistan and Iraq.......so these wars are valid under the Constitution.

Have a good one!:s4:

Forget if it was illegal or legal, it's unproveable so it doesn't even matter. What is your position on the fallacy of WMDs? You can't possibly think that was true can you? The whole premise from which we rationalised our invasion is a complete lie.

Terrorists or not, evil dictator or not, that was never mentioned to us. Most people seem to argue all these details about terrorists in iraq, whether saddam was evil etc, and think that that is actually valid justification. I'm not sure if you realise the global impact but the world is the stage and the USA is THE major player. It's not just a little thing. We were lied to and those lies were used to justify a war.

9/11 despite what you think had nothing to do with Saddam and you can read that in the government's report. So why the invasion? You have to realise no matter how anti-liberal you are that the main reason we took to declare war was completely untrue. What has been accomplished? Saddam is no longer in power - Okay that's good, but are the Iraqi people liberated, are they really free? For the most part I imagine they live in constant fear. And we are going to be stuck there for decades.

I believe that soon we will invade Iran. And then what? How do you see this ending? Or do you hope that it will go past your time and your children will have to make the decision.

BathingApes Reviewed by BathingApes on 11-23-2007. TERRORISM this was going to be a response to another post but i thought more people should read it to gain some perspective. I really cannot believe some of you people. DO some history for Christs sake, its fucking important. The sactions we put on Iraq in the early 90's doubled infant mortality and killed hundreds of thousands of women and children. OUR POLICIES FUCKING KILL PEOPLE!!!! If Iran was occupying mexico our CIA would be killing their soldiers, military enlistment would be through the Rating: 5