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Legally, we're not at war. We were at war with the Iraqi government, but they were defeated and victory was proclaimed. Now? We're at war with "terrorists" (which is a blanket term for anyone who fights against us). You can't actually declare war against "terrorists", though. Without a properly defined enemy, there is no war, and as such the US is not currently at war and as such there is no war time authority.
Or would you like war time authority to be extended to the war on illiteracy and the war on crime? Because there is no difference between the war on crime and the war on terrorism so far as the law is concerned.
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