All very good points, however, my biggest beef is not about the war... faulty justification or no, the Office of the President CLEARLY has that responsibility as commander in chief.

My gripe is the seemingly continual efforts to circumvent the law, the constitution, Geneva convention, WHATEVER is standing in the way of doing what they want.

Rather than try to fix what is hindering their goals via established, legal methods they prefer to break the law. Why do you suppose that is? Probably because they know that they couldn't get the law changed. And the main reason for that is BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE THE WAY IT IS FOR CONTINUATION OF A NORMAL, DECENT, AND MORAL SOCIETY!!!!