If we need to go to war against a country then let’s declare war and go pound them
What, their declaring war on us isn’t enough?
Just so you, Article One of the Constitution says Congress has to declare war. So if Congress votes to go to war against a Nation, we can go to war. Otherwise, we can’t unless the President and the military are violating the constitution.
Congress voted to permit Bush to attack Iraq with the argument Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and was threatening us. Later, President Bush said he was mistaken; that Iraq had no WDM.
Why is it that some of the libertarians are hell-bent on trying to make FR look like DU . . . ? The primary reason for going into Iraq was not over "WDM" as you call them, besides; and maybe one should call up to Canada to ask them what they did with that 606 tons of yellowcake uranium that was taken out of Iraq.
Like I said in another post on this thread, the First and Second Barbary Wars were engaged in without formal declarations of war by Congress; and the present-day conflict in the Middle East is a modern-day form of that conflict. Article 1 section 8 does not say that Congress has to formally declare war, only that they do possess the power to do so; and the POTUS has the power to wage war.