While agreeing with what you are saying daylia, I think it's a bit unfair on neanderthals. There is absolutely no indication that they were particularly bloodthirsty or anything like that.

The neanderthals were displaced by the ancestors of human beings (Cro-Magnons), when they arrived in Europe. It seems pretty likely that they were victims of the first recorded genocide. And it was our people who did it.

No resolution of UNSC will change the rightness/wrongness of invading Iraq. True enough.

But that's like saying no verdict brought out by a court will change the fact that someone has or has not done a crime. and thta is true too - courts get it wrong sometimes. But replacing the decision of the court by the opinion of the strongest bully on the block is not an improvement. Without a resolution authorising an attack on Iraq that attack will literally be a criminal act, a kind of international lynching.