You say: "You might be suprised just how often we’ve gone to war w/o a declaration."
No actually I'm not, I know about pretty much every undeclared small 'war' we've undertaken in the last 100 years. What I am surprised about is that our Commander in Chief can rightfully call Iraq, Iran and NK The Axis of Evil. Yet when we go to "war" with one of these countries and win in three months from the start of the invasion, without the expressed written declaration of war by congress we end up not declaring victory, hanging out on our conquered territory while our other enemies (iran/syria) send in Weapons, Intel, Islamic suicide nuts into iraq, who are bleeding us daily. We meanwhile sit back hamstrung in political debate which harms our troops, divides our country and even has some twits in our congress suggest that we have lost the 'war'.
Iraq deserved a declaration of war. It's not a 'small war'
“Yet when we go to “war” with one of these countries and win in three months from the start of the invasion, without the expressed written declaration of war by congress we end up not declaring victory, hanging out on our conquered territory while our other enemies (iran/syria) send in Weapons, Intel, Islamic suicide nuts into iraq, who are bleeding us daily. We meanwhile sit back hamstrung in political debate which harms our troops, divides our country and even has some twits in our congress suggest that we have lost the ‘war’.”
Are you saying that we would be better off declaring victory so that those against us in Iraq can come here and attack you or yours?