[GOPcapitalist]

The President did not wage war, which is for actions against foreign countries, which the Confederacy was not.

By Lincoln's own definition of February 15, 1861, he waged a military invasion of the southern states. That constitutes a war by any reasonable definition. That you would attempt to make the argument that the civil WAR was not really a war is itself amusing, though nevertheless absurd.

[Grand Old Partisan]

By your logic, if you and some neighbors declared your block an independent country, Congress would have to declare war before taking action to exercise sovereignty and enforce the law.

Please do not trouble me further on this inane subject.