In a speech at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, Albert Gonzales, the president’s White House counsel, justified the second President Bush invading Iraq without a congressional declaration of war. When one officer asked how Bush could legally do this, Gonzales said that we had conducted 100 military actions in the past without a congressional declaration of war; furthermore, past presidents often declared war without a congressional declaration.
Which of the following best describes a fallacy committed in the passage above?
questionable analogy
appeal to authority
appeal to tradition
hasty conclusion