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Originally posted by dhamsaic
I dare you to back that up. Who makes that judgement? Who is the final authority in what is and what is not considered "at war"?
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Allow me to rephrase: Only Congress can declare that the US is "officially" at war.
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What "facts" are you looking at?
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Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution.
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There's no "no" about it, I'm sorry to say.
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The US is not officially at war. Do you deny this?
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We have involved our military in over 200 conflicts since 1798 and only have declared five. That doesn't mean that we weren't at war. They weren't all big wars, but some of them were. They were still wars. The declaration of war is an obsolete practice and will probably never happen again, though we will most certainly be engaged in wars in the future.
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We have been in wars without a declaration of such. I'm not arguing that. You said it yourself: We have only been in 5 declared wars. The rest are not classified as "official wars." Vietnam and Korea, for example, are considered "police actions."
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Actually, it was August of 1945. Not so much an arguing point as a clarification of the facts.
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Japan agreed to surrender on 8/14/45, but the official end of WW2 was 9/2/45.
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It's nice to argue that since we haven't declared war, we're not technically at war. Unfortunately, it's also blatantly untrue.
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I have clarified part of my original post, regarding the determination of being "at war."
Later in that post, I stated that our President, the US Congress, and the Bush administration could say that we are at war, and all would be both right and wrong. Right because what is going on right now would meet the dictionary definition of "war." Wrong because Congress has not made a declaration of war, therefore, we are not officially at war. Would you say this is untrue?