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Thread #51523   Message #786907
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
18-Sep-02 - 03:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush, Iraq and War Part 6
Subject: RE: BS: Bush Iraq and War Part 6
I'm all for people abiding by all UN resolutions. But I'm against countries taking it upon themselves to go to war to enforce that.

That applies not just in the case if Iraq, but also in the case of Israel, Turkey, India, Pakistan and no doubt a fair number of other countries which have failed to comply with various UN Security Council resolutions. (One of these being the USA, as it happens.)

I thought it interesting the way Bush and his corner have been saying how, if the UN doesn't do what the USA says it should do, it'll have effectively turned into the old League of Nations. Since the general consensus among historians I've read is that the crucial flaw with the League of Nations was that America wouldn't have anything to do with it, I wondered if that was a hint that if the UN doesn't fall in line, the USA might remove itself?