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Originally posted by GTi-VR6_A3
nope i dont. the un still has a chance to be a good thing. and technically the us didnt break any un laws they are acting within the realm of 1441. they may not have support from all of the countries or a un coalition bei=hind them but there is no law breaking here...
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This is a popular misconception in the US. The US is acting outside of the UN, indefiance of the UN, and all nations of the world with the exception of Spain, Britain and Australia.
This is the same thing the US and Britain did after the Gulf War, enforcing "no fly zones" in the name of the UN. The UN never called for, or authorised such zones.
Simply put, the US is an empire. During the Cold war, the capitalist nations allied themselves with the US to protect their own interests, against possible communist subversion and aggression. However, the Cold war is over, and it has been for more than a decade. Slowly but surely, those Cold war alliances are begin to crumble, and so is the American Empire.
The US is not nearly as economically strong as their government would like to have you believe. The US is a country that runs on oil, and as the price of oil rises, profits and business dry up.
The US needs to win this war in Iraq to ensure the survival of the American Empire into the next century.