and the US Code is the laws governing the US...which includes its definition of things....or do you think the US should be governed by Webster's Dictionary?
You don't see other countries declaring war on a concept. I said generally, an "act of war" is done by countries. Additionally, the
US Code you cited defines "domestic terrorisim" as: meaning activities that -
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation
of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended -
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by
intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass
destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of
the United States.
What happened on 9/11 falls directly in that category. Like I said before it was a criminal action and the Bush administration chose to treat it as an act of war to justify the use of the military and make him a wartime president. Certainly, it was legal to do it that way, but it could have just as well been handled as a police action (just as the other acts of terrorism in the past were handled).
