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No they did not!
They passed a resolution it was not declaration of war.
On 09/12/01 Bush could have had a declaration of war if he would have asked for one. He could have gotten a sword instead he got a butter knife. Its one of may many gripes about how he has conducted the WOT. Also have a huge problem his rhetoric on the war. I don't want terrorists brought to justice I want them dead! Bush lost the domestic political battle on the war when he lost his nerve and didn't ask for a declaration of war.

The constitution does not specify a particular turn of phrase to declare a war.

They authorized the use of military force, and did not specifically call it a police action, humanitarian aid, armed conflict, peace keeping action or any of the other phrases for not quite war.

Further, every leftist and “progressive” has called it nothing but a war.

No they did not! They passed a resolution it was not declaration of war. On 09/12/01 Bush could have had a declaration of war if he would have asked for one. He could have gotten a sword instead he got a butter knife. Its one of may many gripes about how he has conducted the WOT. Also have a huge problem his rhetoric on the war. I don't want terrorists brought to justice I want them dead! Bush lost the domestic political battle on the war when he lost his nerve and didn't ask for a declaration of war.

Just what exactly is a declaration of war? Is it a formal document like a treaty, is it defined in the Constitution? No and No!

Congress gave the President the authority to use any and all means at the disposal of the US Government, including the full brute force of the US military, to eradicate the terrorists.

Congress imposed no limits, required no further diplomacy nor sought to impose timelines, schedules for withdrawal of the troops or any of the other BS we have been hearing about for the last 6 years.

Congress did declare war regardless of how many now try to wriggle out of it, after-the-fact.