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My understanding is we haven't officially declared war on any nation since before the 1960's. We've done numerous end-arounds, but none like the original intent was supposed to be.

The relevant motions, I believe, were claims of support for the pres to use force if necessary. That's not the declaration of war I was taught necessary, and why claims of kerry flip-flopping on the "authorization of war" seem ignorant to me, at best.

True, the way it happened is the process that has been instituationalized, but your strict reading of how that process is supposed to work is the one demanded by the intention and history of our nation going to its pre-modern wars.

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