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To: Ilaine who wrote (140548)	7/15/2004 11:56:29 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 281500

I've said twice already that Congress knew what it was getting into. Every Congressman who voted to authorize the war is fully responsible for the consequences.

To: Ilaine who wrote (140548)	7/16/2004 9:12:19 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So, you tell yourself ""authorize" isn't the same thing as "declare." In general, I think that dictionary citations are sort of lame argumentatively, but in this context, lameness seems almost a virtue. Anyway, onelook insists on giving an example under declare: # verb: announce publicly or officially (Example: "The President declared war") onelook.com Compare with what seems to be the nearest match for the relevant usage of authorize: verb: give or delegate power or authority to (Example: "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers") onelook.com I guess after you go through the looking glass into W's world, it's all the same, but in conventional reality there is a difference.