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. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.teak.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l