[Eastbound]

"There is NO constitutional language for a "formal declaration of War" there is only the requirement that Congress give the green light to activate the president's CIC powers."

Sounds right to me. What could be a more clear assent for war by Congress than to fund it? To actually utter the words and sign a declaration to be sent to the embassy of a nation to be invaded? I think not. In the case of Iraq, the declaration of war was printed on the first bomb which burrowed deep into what was believed to be Saddam's bunker.

[Texasforever]

I am really weary of the argument that there was no declaration of war. In fact the constitution confers the POWER to declare war on Congress but no where does it say that the Congress is REQUIRED to EXERCISE that power, HOW it is to be exercised or the manner in which it is to be exercised. The entire argument is silly and only used by those that see the war itself as bad. It is the classic strawman argument.