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Posted by: ickle

Ok, let me get this straight. Many of the anti-war crew wanted to put the decision of how and when to go to war in the hands of the be-all and end-all UN Security Council.

Is this the same UN Security Council that couldn't even build an effective set of Oil for Food sanctions to get food and medical aid to the people of Iraq?

Thse guys can't even put food in people's mouths and you want to put them in charge of a major military campaign? The logic excapes me.

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Posted by: DaveDom

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Originally posted by ickle
Ok, let me get this straight. Many of the anti-war crew wanted to put the decision of how and when to go to war in the hands of the be-all and end-all UN Security Council.

Is this the same UN Security Council that couldn't even build an effective set of Oil for Food sanctions to get food and medical aid to the people of Iraq?

Thse guys can't even put food in people's mouths and you want to put them in charge of a major military campaign? The logic excapes me.


UN involvement might have meant NO war. We could then have kept the weapons inspectors in to finish the job (months said Blix) AND we could also have put in HUMANITARIAN INSPECTORS to stop the torture.

There was no will to stop the torture. Much of the world enjoyed doing business with Saddam while he was torturing Iraqis. America was still doing business a year after Saddam gassed the Kurds and no doubt he'd been torturing his people for years. The US only fell out with Saddam when he went for the oil in Kuwait. I repeat: ONLY WHEN HE TRIED TO GRAB THE OIL IN KUWAIT! Not torture and not mass murder!

So yes the UN could have done a better job but we'll never know now.
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Posted by: Ireland

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Originally posted by ickle
Ok, let me get this straight. Many of the anti-war crew wanted to put the decision of how and when to go to war in the hands of the be-all and end-all UN Security Council.

Is this the same UN Security Council that couldn't even build an effective set of Oil for Food sanctions to get food and medical aid to the people of Iraq?

Thse guys can't even put food in people's mouths and you want to put them in charge of a major military campaign? The logic excapes me.

Make up your minds America. One minute you complain about the U.N and its effectiveness in the world arena, the next you use them to kill up to one million Iraqi civilians through sanctions or protect Israel's nuclear status...
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