Well that's fair enough. If we want to get into semantics. The sun doesn't rise until officially announced? I don't mean to be sarcastic, but our policy in Iraq hasn't been exactly super top secret or anything. It matters not whether Congress passes an "Official Act" and reads Saddam the riot act before the news cameras. Our policy has been fairly overt to all but the willfully blind.
Call it what you will, this has been our policy whether one acknowledges it or not. Congress authorizes the funds and the President commands the troops. Both those branches have been involved with this policy for years and years. That's the way it is. Saddam is gone. That was inevitable. It's silly to quibble. This isn't a courtroom where either of us are looking for some "letter of the law" loophole to wriggle free with.