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Apparently much better than the chances of you understanding it since you so clearly don't.
That authorizes the president to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against nations, organizations, or people. It doesn't turn all three into things we're at war with.
The necessary and appropriate force against a country, if we found out it was responsible, is to declare war on them, fight them, topple their government, declare victory.
The necessary and appropriate force against an organization, if we found it was responsible, is to attempt to break up, defund, marginalize, or destroy the organization and its influence and power.
The necessary and appropriate force against a person, if we found they were responsible, is to capture or kill them. If captured, it is to try them to find out if they were responsible and if so sentence them accordingly (life in prison or death sentence).
No part of that, or anything else anyone is going to find, is going to formally declare a nation is at war with a barely organized group of people because that is literally impossible.
The rhetoric of "war on terror," "war on drugs," "war on poverty," etc is all metaphorical and ideological, not literal. We went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan, that's it.
Anyone captured who isn't a soldier of one of those two countries is not a prisoner of war, by definition. It's not my opinion, it's not a liberal point of view, it's what the fucking phrase does and always has meant.
Well, other than the fact that I obviously understand it much better than your limited mental faculties will ever permit, you might have a point.
Nah. You are incapable of making a coherent point.
The words mean exactly what they say.
When Congress (the body designated in our Constitution as the one capable of declaring war) AUTHORIZES the President (Commander in Chief) to use all necessary force -- that IS a declaration of war you imbecile.
Your retarded effort at spinning it into meaning something else has no chance of flying -- ever -- because the words clearly and plainly mean exactly what they say.
Too bad for you, you dishonest liberoidal shithead.
Oh really?
Authorizing the use of our military does not constitute a declaration of WAR.
There is no way to declare WAR on an ideology. You have to have a specific entity or country to declare war against. You can't wage war against a concept.
Who won the War on Poverty? Who won the War on Drugs?
You are stultifying in your mindless robotic use of empty rhetoric.
One does not fight a war on drugs or a war on crime with military might, you fucking moron. The misnomer "war on crime" was never intended to connote a real war. So your relaince on the term is meaningless.
By contrast, a war against fucking terrorists who DID attack us IS a military thing.
And authroizxing the use of our military against that enemy is absolutely a declaration of war.
Congress didn't declare war on "terrorism." Again, the actual language of the AUMF Resolution which I quoted in full would assist you if you had the capacity to stop relying on your dishonest talking pointlesses for a moment. Instead, Congress specifically authorized the President to use all necessary force against the nations, organizations and individuals whom the PRESIDENT determined ". . . planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."
Your denial is based on -- NOTHING. You are reduced to just making shit up.
You suck at this whole "debate" thang. And it shows!
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