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Originally posted by theking
The President cannot declare war, only congress can declare war, but the Congress can, and did, grant the President the power to use out military (several months ago), without Congress officially declaring war. So technically the US is not engaged in War, it is engaged in a conflict just as the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam conflict. In both of those cases the Congress did not declare War but just as in this instance with Iraq granted the power to the President to use our military.
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Actually, if I remember correctly, Congress actually gave the power to President Clinton to use military force against Iraq, but other than a couple of airstrikes, he chose not to excercise the power.