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To: sea_urchin who wrote (18079)4/25/2003 4:13:11 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 80990
 
Looks like Mr Annan, like the rest of his defunct organization, is in the deep doo-doo.

Firstly, for saying the "US-UK's war on Iraq was illegitimate" because the US-UK pursued the war in Iraq "without specific authorization by the Security Council."

arabicnews.com

Secondly, for calling the US an "occupying power".

What a damn cheek. Everyone knows that the US was specifically authorized by Resolution 1441 to "liberate" Iraq. Or was it to remove those WMDs which were a threat to world peace? Or was it to perform "regime change" because that awful dictator what's-his-name was busy killing his own people? Or was it because the Iraqi people demanded "democracy"?

news.bbc.co.uk

And, for what it's worth, here's UN Resolution 1441

un.int

And here's the specific Clause which entitles the US to do as it pleases:
"13. Recalls, in that context, that the Council has repeatedly warned Iraq that it will face serious consequences as a result of its continued violations of its obligations"

And, as we now all know (as result of all the WMDs which were subsequently found by the US), Iraq indeed violated its obligations and thus had to face the serious consequences (which the US had decided to implement anyway).
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