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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Thomas M. who wrote (16505)4/20/2004 5:47:45 PM
From: BillRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
It's debatable whether there was authorization, explicit or implicit, from the Security Council.

The Nov. 8 resolution states that Iraq must not "take or threaten hostile acts against any representative or personnel of the United Nations ... or of any member state taking action to uphold any council resolution."

As the three nations enforced Res 688, a UN measure to protect Iraqi citizens from being slaughtered by the Iraqi dictator, they were fired upon by Iraqi forces. Does that not violate the above clause? The fact that 688 specifies no enforcement measures does not absolve UN members from the responsibility to enforce it.

Of course, your example of Cuba is absurd in its irrelevance. There is no standing UN Security Council resolution condemning the dictator of the United States for murdering hundreds of thousands of his own civilians.
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