Yes, that is a BIG problem! How in the world is it right for this country to invade another country, kill the leadership and occupy its cities without being attacked and without the congress declaring war? Congress was grossly derelict in its duty; it sniveled out of its responsibility by passing a "resolution" allowing the president to decide whether or not to invade Iraq. It is still demonstrating its incompetence by trying to influence improperly when and how we leave Iraq.
This Iraq fiasco is damaging our country big time and both the president and the congress bear responsibility. The most important question here is how did this happen. Our political system has been incredibly corrupted by money from special interest groups and the people have lost power. We have a government which is of the money, by the money and for the money. And, I can tell you first hand, this war is being waged the same way.
Iraq fiasco? Is that you, Murtha?
However, that's pretty much irrelevant, as we were simply enforcing the terms of a cease fire that had been breached by almost every day with attacks on our military and other conditions. That's generally considered risky for a defeated regime that has only been allowed to stay in power as long as they strictly adhere to the terms of the cease fire.
There was no need to declare a new war that I can see, and I'm not convinced the President needed permission from congress to escalate hostilities in an ongoing military campaign.
It's my opinion that many have confused Bush's courtesies toward an unappreciative left wing for some duty, or law, that was not neccesarily owed and has yet to be defined.
Why would you declare war on a country you are already at war with?