<< "procedurally we don’t have formal declarations of war like we use to" >>
....Eight months after George W. Bush was sworn in as our 43rd President, al-Qa'ida terrorists, under the direction Osama bin Laden, hijacked four commercial jets and used them to kill almost 3,000 of our countrymen, all of them noncombatants in a decades-old asymmetric war between Islamofascists and liberty.
Three days after that bloodshed, the U.S. Senate and House voted 98-0 and 420-1, respectively, to authorize the President by war resolution
"to use all necessary and appropriate force against those
nations, organizations or persons he determines 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."
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