[Dr. Frank fan]

Congress can not deligate the "declaration of war" authority to the Executive branch by legislative fiat or via treaty.

What is "legislative fiat"? "Fiat" is not used that way; this is practically an oxymoron. Do you mean by act of Congress (i.e. legislation)? Uh, Congress most certainly can delegate to the President the authority for military action by passing legislation. In fact that is their Constitutional function, and that is precisely what they did, as the original poster has documented.

Of course personally, I am a whole lot more concerned about the so called USA PATRIOT ACT, Homeland Security Act, and the currently named USA PATRIOT ACT 2 than I am Saddam Hussein or Bin Laden

Of course you are.

[borntodiefree]

Well then, what the heck, they can just pass legislation to pass off all of their duties to the President, they must not be limited to the confines of the Constitution.

The seperation of powers/duties was put in place as a command, not a request.

As far as fiat, it means both a command and an illigitment command).