Critical Questioning of What is Truly Going on in Iraq: When is War War?

As I watch the media and listen to discussions amongst people about the war in Iraq. From the beginning, after the 9/11 disaster, there has been one question that has not been asked. Is America at war with Iraq? I know that some may say that this quest ion is self-evident due to the fact the US president, Congress, and the Media have been calling it a war from the outset. There is a signed Congressional resolution after all. But I always say that a hundred people going in one direction does not make it any more the correct direction. Nor does everyone defining what is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan for that manner a war a war. I have even asked this question to a Representative and his response was simply, that the president says it's a war then it is a war. That just made my head ache even more. It reminded me of a CBS interview of President Clinton prior to the beginning of the Millennium. The interviewer asked when is the Millennium actually when the clock at Naval Observatory says that the Millennium actually begun 2001, not 2000. Mr. Clinton responded by saying that the American people says and believes that the Millennium starts 2000, so it does. That's an amazing statement that has no rational or logic just as saying the war in Iraq is a war simply because the president, or anyone else, says it's so. Either it is or it isn't.

First let's look at what we do have. We do have a signed Congressional Resolution authorizing the president of the United States to use of force. A resolution is defined as, "a formal statement of opinion or determination adopted by an assembly or other formal group." Is this what the children of America are dying for, a statement of opinion? The Founders made it clear that only the Congress has the power to declare war in Article 1, Section 8. To declare anything is to "make clearly known; state or announce openly, formally." One thing can be said of this situation over the "war" is that nothing is clearly known of the reason that American children are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.