On the flip side, if, God forbid, the war does not go as well as hoped and planned, and we suffer a lot of casualties, you'd better believe Congress will be strutting around and saying things like, "Well, the President exceeded his authority...he's a madman, I tells ya...we never meant for him to go that far!" We can already see equivocating by a few Congresspukes.
And if they vote on a resolution, and it does not pass, and the President does not go to war, and something bad happens, Congress has only itself to blame.
Protect the President. Hold Congress accountable. Get them to declare war.
You and Bi=onifaz need to reread Article 1, Section 8. It clearly states that only Congress has the power to declare war. It is silent on how they go about it and the article does not oblige them to declare war while authorizing and funding same.
The history and the precedents are clear. All one need do is look at the Barbary Wars conducted by one of the same men who penned the Constitution. They were conducted without a formal declaration because from the beginning formal declarations are the purview of the Congress but not mandated by the Constitution in order to authorise hostilities.
The courts are mucking where they shouldn't be. It is a political question to be answered by the elected representatives of the US and they have already spoken.