"HeyBub" wrote:

Right. Only Congress has the right to "declare" war. But the president has
the unfettered right to "wage" war.

The president's right to wage war is fettered by Congress's willingness to pay
for it. As a practical matter, that is not much of a fetter. Once troops are
in harm's way, it is almost impossible for Congress to not "support our troops",
even if the best way to support them is to take them out of harm's way.
-- Doug