[SunStar]

It is a war which is being waged against against an undefined grab bag of of enemies (including everybody from rebels in the Phillipines to Saddaam Hussein).

The Abu Sayyaf group is directly linked as an offshoot of Osama Bin Laden. The leader of the 1993 WTC bombers came from that group.

Additionally, SecDef Rumsfeld stated quite clearly that Iraq is harboring top members of Al Qaeda.

The current congressional resolution covers these issues very well.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Offshoots eh? Well....if you want to use that standard to send American boys and girls to "war" on the president's whim, then you have no real standard at all.

[ProudAmerican2]

Additionally, SecDef Rumsfeld stated quite clearly that Iraq is harboring top members of Al Qaeda.

The members of Al Qaeda are in the Kurdish-controlled section of Iraq.