Quoth wgilbert02: > Geof, I wonder if everyone has also forgotten Ansar Al-Islam, the Al- > Queda affiliate operating in Northern Iraq that tried to poison > British water supplies a few years ago as well?
No, I haven't forgotten about Ansar al-Islam, the al Qaeda affiliate which operated in (Kurdish-controlled and under the protection from Saddam of US aircraft) northern Iraq. > Since when does any sovereign country in the world need > the permission of the UN to begin a war, irregardless of the > reasoning behind that war? When the "reasoning behind that war" is that it is an enforcement action pursuant to UN resolutions. > Furthermore, the US had more than enough > votes within the UN to allow military assistance during the invasion, > but France, who was one of the five countries with veto power, > threatened to veto it, even if avery country in the UN was in support. France has a veto on the UN Security Council, not in the UN general assembly. And what of it anyway? The US has a UNSC veto as well. If you set up an institution with a particular decisionmaking procedure, the fact that that procedure may occasionally produce results other than the ones you want isn't a reason for saying that the procedure is invalid. The US agreed to veto power for the WII Allied Powers on the UNSC, and accepted veto power AS one of the WWII Allied Powers on the UNSC. Then it brought the matter to the UN, not vice versa. Tom Knapp ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
