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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (11042)	2/7/2006 9:50:31 AM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541471

I seem to recall Congressional authorization of military force in this "dust-up". As a last resort. We hardly exhausted all the options in the rush to combat, did we? (Besides, if you will actually read my comments this time, the term "dust-up" was referring to the Civil War...kind of an understatement sort of irony.) If I recall, your rationale at the time was that our poor troops were going to have to swelter in the hot Iraqi sun if we didn't invade that same moment. That argument seemed ludicrous then and it seems almost macabre now. Declaring war seems to have gone out of the fashion for the last 50 years or so, especially if the enemy (whom, if you'll excuse me, you don't seem to take particularly seriously) is a non-state actor. You really need to drop this ridiculous meme. It is not true, is not sticking and only serves to make you look unserious.