B Robson wrote:
> Michael Cash wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:34:27 +0900, Brett Robson
>> <deep_m_m@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>>
>>>> John W. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Michael Cash wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> The AP radio news, in characteristic unbiased fashion, informed me
>>>>>> this evening that in the debates Kerry will call Bush to account for
>>>>>> "the mess in Iraq".
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Just out of curiosity, do you think it's not a mess and think we were
>>>>> absolutely right for going there and taking our eyes completely off
>>>>> the
>>>>> ball?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Which war do you think wasn't a mess?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is the War of Terrorism (TM Fox News) as there was no formal
>>> declaration of war?
>>
>>
>>
>> What does a formal declaration of war look like? The framers of the
>> Constitution forgot to include a fill-in-the-blank form for us to use.
>>
>
> Of course I was being facetious. But surely you know that congress alone
> holds the power to declare war? The Vietnam not-War was unconstitutional
> as the president waged war but congress never declared war.

Didn't Johnson push something through congress allowing to fight the
Vietnam-whatever-it-was? I saw "The Fog of War" recently and I thought
McNamara mentioned something like that.

Dan