Congress has the responsibility to declare war against those people and organizations waging war on us and against any nation known to be sponsoring, supporting or harboring those people waging war on us.Unfortunately, Congress cannot declare war on individuals, or on groups of individuals. Congress declares war on nations. Initial reports indicate that the hijackers were Egyptian and Saudi nationals, carrying Egyptian and Saudi passports. The sad and ugly fact of the matter is that Congress must declare war on Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
If, as initial reports indicate, these men were created in Egyptian and Saudi wombs, if these men were nurtured by Egyptian and Saudi culture, if these men were loosed upon the world by the Egyptian and Saudi societies, then it is the Egyptian and Saudi cultures and societies which must disappear from the face of the earth.
You wonder why they say war is hell? Because it is.
Yes they can, and yes they have in the past...the 4th Congress declared war on the Barbary Pirates - an autonomous group.
It this another thinly-veiled way to psychologically prepare us to give up even more of our 2nd Amendement rights and civil liberties for the safety and security that our government has dramatically FAILED to provide us with in exchange?!?
Don't make me laugh. You forgot one thing -- the US heavily funded the creation of the terror network Bin Laden now heads. If it turns out he was involved, should we declare war on America too? or are we going to only attack countries full of brown people?
War has already been declared against our nation - it is called a Jihad. Attacks far worse than Pearl Harbor have been made against our country. Congress declared war when Pearl Harbor was attacked and they must DECLARE WAR because of these opening attacks of the THIRD WORLD WAR.
The recent milquetoast mindset and spinelessness of the House and Senate is, hopefully, a thing of the past. They need to find the courage and resolve to put their names to an OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF WAR against the terrorists who committed this atrocity, those who financed, harbored, and supported them, and their allies.
Acting under the unconstitutional War Powers Act or prosecuting a war with only the authorized "funding" from Congress is not enough. It needs to be official - it needs to be a DECLARATION OF WAR. Call your Congressman and Senators. Let's do it right this time.
Clinton didn't need a declaration of war to send troops to the Balkans. Bush senior didn't need a declararion of war for the Gulf or Panama. Reagan didn't need a declaration of war for Grenada and President Bush doesn't need a declaration of war now in order to do what must be done to strike the people responsible for this act of terrorism. Don't grant him something he doesn't need and which could be abused in the future.
What would we have done had, God forbid, the terrorists had a couple of suitcases full of Anthrax or other chemical weapon on board those hijacked airliners?
Kill all the sons-a-bitches, and let God/Allah sort it out.