What? Iraq wasn't a war?

Forget naming the war folks…it wasn’t a war.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/5979418.htm

Give me a break. Revisionism already?

The last time the US declared war was, IIRC, against Germany in 1941.

They’re not called wars anymore.

I don’t care what they call it. Having to carry survival gear and weapons and seeing people shooting in my direction leads me to call it a war.

What’s the debate? Was it a war or not? It was a war.

Not “officially”.

That’s right, it was the Battle of Iraq, part of the War on Terrorism. We weren’t there to oust Saddam or find any WMDs, we were there to capture Osama bin Laden and his balsa gliders and Winnebagos - which we did, by the way. (Of course we did! Stop laughing, you America-haters.) But his cronies fled to Syria and Iran, so we have to go into those countries and capture them too.

I’m surprised this is a shock to you. Haven’t you been reading the papers?

Not those liberal rags, I mean the real papers. The ones that weren’t circulated, so they wouldn’t fall into enemy hands. Only us real patriots got a copy.

What’s that, you didn’t get a copy? Hmm…

Mr2001:

God Bless you! I am proud to have you on the side of the real Americans.

[/sarcasm]

True.

By whom? Obviously nobody’s paying attention, because pretty much everyone still calls 'em wars.

The real patriots Mr2001 mentioned - did you not get the memo???

:wally

Well lessee… Vietnam was a conflict, Korea was a police action… right?

Given all the other lies we’ve been fed from the White House over this conflict, revisionist semantics seems to be the least of our concerns.

(I don’t recall any “Battle of Iraq” banners flashing across Fox News and CNN, do you?)

A war involves two armies. This conflict didn’t.

Just to be a nitpicking pain in the ass, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania enjoy the joint honor of being the last nations the US declared war on.

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Did everyone miss the other memo? Military actions have been ‘Operations’ since the 80’s. Sound much more surgical, that.

I think it’s a matter of Congress having the power to declare war according to the Constitution, but Presidents being the ones who do it as a matter fo fact.

RTFirefly and Senorbeef, I thought Nazi Germany declared war on the USA in 1941 and not the other way around.

Does that mean that this conflict from 1939-1945 was actually the War of Poland, followed by the War of France, followed by the War of Britain, followed by the War of North Africa, followed by the War of French Liberation, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.?

Didn’t Congress vote for a declaration of war in Gulf War I? I seem to remember watching the vote on CSPAN with my dad. Possibly the only time I’ve ever actually watched CSPAN.

Yes, Congress did not declare war on Iraq.

But then, Congress never passed a “declaration of war on terrorism,” either.

Congress authorized the use of military force against Iraq and against those who perpetrated or assisted the 9-11 attacks.

I can pretty much say with confidence that is called the Vietnam WAR not the conflict in vietnam

I think someone should call CNN and change all their references to the Gulf WAR.

Did we specifically declare war on terrorists since everyone seems to agree there is a WAR on terrorism.

This all some Poltically correct push to label things in some antiseptic neat little harmeless category. The US forces have killed several thousands of Iraqi regulars and hundreds of “irregulars”. 2 military forces fighting each other. Thats called a war.

Congress declared war on Germany after Germany and Italy declared war on the US.