Iraq got its weapons from just about everywhere. Including all those four countries. And the sooner people stop selling weapons like that the better. Can we all agree on that anyway?

"Serious consequences" can means just about anything, and was intended to. And meaning anything it means nothing. That was the intention of the people who fudged the resolution, so that different people could claim it meant different things.

"War" is a much shorter and less ambigious word. If a resolution is intended to authorise war, that's the word it should use. Or maybe "miitary action" since they don't much like short words.