[Grut]

If hypothetically, an attack was perpetrated against America on American soil that killed thousands of Americans and the attack was by a foreign group that had previously declared a war of annihilation on the United States, few would argue that America was at war....

Wrong. If Congress, after such provocations, failed to formally declare war between us and our attackers, it could only be because it had decided that a state of war was undesirable for compelling reasons. The reasonable assumption would then be that we were not at war.

[IncPen]

Wrong. If Congress, after such provocations, failed to formally declare war between us and our attackers, it could only be because it had decided that a state of war was undesirable for compelling reasons. The reasonable assumption would then be that we were not at war.

Reasons compelling, or seditious.

I think the framers fully intended that the people would rain down their wrath on their elected officials when skullguggery or cowardice became the norm.

It's a damn pity that we haven't had the cojones to hold these elected officials to task.

As I stood at a pump today filling my tank with $2.00 per gallon gas (38c of which is taxes) I asked myself: How is it that I (and the rest of America) pay 60% of my income in taxes and that largess has been squandered into a $6 TRILLION debt?

WTF is wrong with this picture?