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Congress in Iraq 2003 authorized before, rather than after. While the President could unilaterally have ordered an invasion with only a short term of authority, he did not. Therefore, the historical example provided was not an example of the President acting without backing of Congress. It was not "just" the President doing so, but the President acting after having obtained legal authority for sustained operations by Congress. Similarly Afghanistan, and the First Gulf War were authorized, and therefore not "just" the President acting.
90 days.
The name of the medal was official. I'm not going to re-litigate the entire subject, but if your point is that there was an aversion to using the word "war" in public, that simply wasn't so. You, specifically, may have had guidelines in reports, but that was not universal, and certainly not something followed, as you point out, by the President at the time. While war was not officially declared, the President and members of Congress used the word, and Congress authorized it. This is not a moral judgement or defense of the Iraq invasion, but pointing out that framing it solely as a Presidential adventure is inaccurate.
Perhaps an assumption?
All right, now I'm convinced you're just a burner account for my wife. You're still arguing semantics, distracting with irrelevant information, and are willingly misunderstanding instead of contributing to the actual conversation. Looks like you care more about arguing than having an actual productive discussion, so it's not really worth my time to try and rehash this in even simpler terms for you.
But I will condede, I meant 90 days, not 30. That was an honest slip of the fingers.
EDIT: Fine, because it's bothering me how poorly you're following this discussion, here's an actual response:
Irrelevant. My point was that the president can act on his own. Period. That was the whole discussion, from the very start. Congress is not needed. Just because Congress has been consulted with, and approved further action before the president gave the order, doesn't mean he can't do it.
You're trying to say the president can't send troops overseas into enemy territory without approval from Congress and that is simply wrong. You've been quoting the War Powers Act in every thread here, and even corrected me on the 90 days rule, yet you still act like the president's hands are tied without Congress signing off on everything he does. That's literally the point of the 90 day rule!
Okay, let me simplify this for you, since you're struggling with reading comprehension. Publicly, it was called the Iraq War. Because that's the term the civilian population latched onto and we couldn't shake that perception. Same with Vietnam War, Korean War, Gulf War, etc. Not official wars, but the public named them and we didn't argue semantics with news agencies, lest it ruin our credibility. (Like arguing with trolls about semantics online. Hmm...) We do not have an aversion to using "war" publicly. We actually prefer to use that word publicly.
In an official capacity though (read: behind-the-scenes military documentation/records/discussion/etc.), it's always been the Iraq Campaign. We do not call it a war because Congress never declared war. It's literally as simple as that. Our written military history will officially have it documented as a military campaign and nothing more. The medal awarded for participation in the Iraq War is literally called the Iraq Campaign Medal.
The medal you're referring to in your comment is the Global War on Terrorism medal. Not related to the Iraq War, or any war in particular. It's a stupid declaration by a former president who wanted to make a statement about standing up to the 9/11 attacks, and award any service member who takes part in this so-called "War on Terror."
And again, we use the word "war" publicly, so there's no reason we can't have it on that particular medal. It's not referencing a specific military campaign, so it can be named the Global War on Terrorism medal. Refer to the "War on Drugs" comment in my last reply.
An assumption about what? You obviously didn't serve in the military, or else you would know all this and I wouldn't have to spell this out multiple times for you. So yes, I'm assuming you're just a civilian who read a few articles and are now struggling to follow actual information from someone who experienced it first-hand through the military, because it didn't align with whatever comprehension you took away from the subject.