I agree with yyou on that but at least there was an authorization for the War on terror (response to 9/11) AND Iraq
There was a process and a vote and while not a declaration of war as many people might have preferred there was some buy-in from the Reps and senators and that is very close to a declaration of war probably the closet we’ve seen for a long time?
For the sake of argument:
Bush II knew the Afghan and Iraqi wars would be relatively long ones. So he asked for those congressional authorizations.
Trump probably sees this current Iran conflict as being short and to the point. So he didn’t consider asking for any authorizations.
And to complicate the matters even further, Bush II was an idiot, and probably someone’s puppet (I’m not sure who’s, but I have my ideas).
Trump is neither an idiot nor someone’s puppet.