I think we can all agree that the actions congress took are well within the zone that they could be argued in a court of law to be an actual declaration of war.
JrsyJack and I think a court would rule that a war was indeed declared, and Reily believes that they wouldn't.
I'm willing to charge 0bama with treason and let the courts sort it out...
I would argue the USG has already set the precedent by its actions that we are not in a “State of War”. (A court would probably cite this!) These precedents were set both by previous undeclared uses of force, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War 1 and more importantly by actions in the WOT.
Unfortunately because of USG lack of current & past resolve on these issues, I think a charge of treason on anything is a dead letter.