That's always a problem. But that is the reason all those agreements were reached, and they are meant to bind us.

Our countries have promised to abide by the United Nations Charter, and this war is going to be a clear breach of that Charter, unless it's backed by at least nine members of the Security Council, with no vetoes.

Attempts to bully countries into voting the way they don't believe is right, on the grounds that, if the UN doesn't back the war, Bush is going to go to war anyway, so it's better if it's made legal - that seems to me, to use a word that has been thrown around rather loosely recently, a kind of appeasement. It's saying might is right.