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To: Logain Ablar who wrote (169052)	6/8/2006 11:31:26 AM
From: Ilaine	of 793772

I remember without even having to look it up. The UN Security Council did not vote to authorize this war in Iraq. It only takes one vote to veto any Security Council resolution. France, Germany and China were urged to abstain rather than veto -- an abstention doesn't count as a veto. But their cooperation was not forthcoming, and thus, the US didn't ask for a vote. The US and allies instead relied on their reading of former resolutions and said it was implied by the wording of earlier resolutions. In addition to the legalistic parsing of earlier resolutions, the second reason given was that the threat from Iraqi WMD was a matter of US security, and thus didn't need the UN's approval.

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