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To: craig crawford who wrote (149019)10/21/2002 10:34:18 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 164684
 
The issue is not the US Constitution versus the UN Charter. The United States of its own free will chose to deal with Iraq within the context of the UN -- and that choice served us well in 1991. Everything we did in 1991 was under the authority of the UN -- and this made it possible to work with a broad coalition of other countries. We can go it alone -- just as we could have done gone it alone in 1991. We chose not to go alone. There was only one choice to make -- act in the context of the UN or act alone. Once we chose to act under the authority of the UN we are bound to recognize and respect the limitations that are imposed upon us as a function of that choice. We did not invade Iraq and depose Saddam in 1991 because it would have required moving from a UN action to a unilateral declaration of war by the US against Iraq and that was not an attractive alternative.

If we act alone there are consequences. If we act alone the consequences in part depend on our ability to mount something like a plausible explanation for our actions -- self-defense for example. We don't need to prove self-defense before we act -- but we need to be aware of the consequences and implications.
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