Yes, "There have been several wars in which America has not made a declaration of war," and some of us have a problem with that fact. Our Constitution, places the burden of declaring war upon Congress for a very good reason: to insure, insofar as possible, that war is the will of the People, not the whim of an overzealous Executive. Some of us folks that have been hung with the tag "liberal" are actually so conservative in our thinking that we believe that if a war must be fought, a Declaration Of War should be issued by those who represent us most directly - our Congressmen - just as The Constitution provides.

Bruce