06-05-2004, 08:44 PM
Quote:Just because there may be dissenting opinions from within the United Nations does not mean that, as an organization, they were not in opposition to the war.
They were not. The *only* UN body that has the competence to decide in such questions is the Security Council. There is no SC resolution that says the UN are in opposition to that war. It´s that simple.
If their had been an SC resolution saying the war was false, then one could say that the UN as an organization were against the war. There is, of course, no such resolution, since the US have a veto vote in the SC.
H. Blix did of course NOT dictate UN policy. If he did, then their would have been longer inspections.
Quote:As far as the rest of your post is concerned... Your opinions are even more based in supposition than are mine, and I'm certainly not sure that they support military action; particularly given the fact that there are several nations in the world with as bad/threatening of dictators and much deadlier military capacity.
Personally, I think it was good that the Baath regime was ended no matter wether they had certain weapons or not. I would like to see other dictatorships go, too - but that´s another question. No reason not to get rid of this one.