[giotto]

You can rationalize all you like, but the War on Terror, as Dubya dubbed it, is NOT a war on the Caliphate. It's not even a war on jihad. Like the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, it's mostly an excuse to create more bureaucracy (Homeland Security) and take away more liberties.

And just because a few hijackers "declared war on us," as you put it, that doesn't constitute a declaration of war by our government. It has to be bilateral, and it has to be a formal declaration.

The Constitution clearly establishes the fact that the President has an open ended right to repel invaders

Repelling invaders is not the same as declaring war on the country they came from.

[muawiyah]

You are so wrong ~ a few hijackers ~ just one team that holed up in some townhouses quite near here was in the hundreds ~ and behind them were substantial numbers of incredibly wealthy Saudis and others.

That's what happens to you when you read the Leftwingtard MSM ~ you fail to appreciate the scale of the attack and the identity of the attackers.

And Osama Bin Ladin's own claim was that he wanted to re-establish the Islamic Caliphate ~ they attacked us ~ they identified themselves ~ and that's who they are whether you want to believe it or not.

Now, what did I say ~ "irredentists of the Islamic Caliphate" ~ look that term up someday then we can talk.

[muawiyah]

Repelling invaders is quite open ended. We may well end up using nukes on the country that spawned them unless they can show us they have them under control and will sign on to a treaty to prevent such things in the future.

WAR does not wait on formal declarations.