This makes it abundantly clear the Iran strike isn't legal

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54. Was it evidence of the Obama being lawless when he launched attacks?

Republicans certainly claimed it was and are generally now in favor of these attacks by Trump.

How do these attacks differ from attacks launched by Clinton, Obama, and Biden that didn't get a congressional declaration of war for military action?

I'm not saying that we shouldn't revisit the War Powers Act, but the way in which we wage war has changed including the speed of action such that getting an official declaration of war isn't always feasible. Take the raid that got bin Laden. Special forces went into an independent country that we had no agreement to go into and Obama absolutely didn't go to Congress ahead of time. That required moving at a high rate of speed with the highest level of secrecy to work.

But the problem of a president using the military without getting congressional approval goes all the way back to George Washington who used the military against native American tribes. So if every president has done this, isn't that just a flaw in the approach?