Strick 16 April 10:23pm
"The UN is nearly useless as it's currently constituted...Why is it such a big deal now?"


Strick 20 April 1:41 PM
" So the US should continue to go it alone then? No point bothering those nice people, it's now our problem, right?"



Well, well--in 4 days, Strick, you've realized there is a role for the UN after all---unless of course you plan to waffle yet again. Of course you Bushites are only following your Fearless Leader in double-talk----he easily beats Kerry in that category----(e.g steel quotas for political reasons, later rescinded---this is a free trader?, ridiculing nation-building as a candidate--what, pray tell, is the plan in Iraq now?,    such high deficits (caused in large part by his absurd tax cuts) that he even annoyed his number 1 cheering section. the Wall St. Journal editorial page ---and so on ad nauseum.)    So I suppose if you want to blow like a weathervane you're just following your idol.

At any rate, I never said there was no role for the UN in Iraq---just that Bush's conduct on this topic offers a strong irony. You went off on wild tangents--so I have made a modest contribution------ and only recently have managed to crash-land on the thread's point.