On 8 November 2002, states in the United Nations with veto power,
that is, with rights as individual states to prevent super-state
action, agreed
... that Iraq has been and remains in material breach of its
obligations under relevant resolutions, including resolution 687
(1991), ...
[U.N. Chapter VII Resolution 1441]
and also agreed to remind the Government of Iraq
... that the [UN Security] Council has repeatedly warned Iraq that
it will face serious consequences as a result of its continued
violations of its obligations ....
[U.N. Chapter VII Resolution 1441]
However, it appears as I write this that the major states are not
going to agree to follow-up action -- they will not agree to the
`serious consequences' of the resolution.
Moreover, it appears that the US government will decide that without a
follow-up the other major countries in the UN will have made the UN
irrelevant, and will withdraw (or `suspend' itself) from it.
The US government will decide to act as the `sheriff' on its own,
will invade Iraq, and, after what may well be a dreadful war, produce
evidence that the Iraqi government has been as cruel as depicted.
US President Bush will point out that pacifists world-wide, Democratic
Senators and others in the US, and people in France prefer to support
rather than oppose a cruel dictatorship.
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Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises
http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
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