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To: tejek who wrote (160088)	2/5/2003 5:42:55 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578012

Ted Re...You don't need approval of all UN member nations but rather just those of the Security Council of which there are 15. BTW in the Sec. Council Germany is not a permanent member and is the least of our problems. It is a bit difficult when a couple of those nations are with the enemy, notably syria, Germany and France. The 26 pledged nations were the founding members of the UN. That was the beginning of the UN......it didn't exist before WWII.< WWII actually started Sept 1. 1939 at 4;45 am.; when Germany invaded Poland. The Us declared war on Germany Dec 11, 1941, 2 yrs later, after receiving notice from Germany that they joined Japan in the war. This happens to be three wks. before your UN declaration of 26 nations on Jan 1. 1942. So the US didn't get UN approval, on or before Dec 11. 1941. In fact the UN didn't even exist, and when it was organized. only the Allied side was allowed to join. You can bet that if there was a UN, as it exists today, there would have been no war resolution, because there were enough countries on the Axis side who would have vetoed it. 26 were ready to commit to fight Germany and you say Iraq is just like Germany and yet, we can't get the 15 members of the Sec. Council to agree to fight Iraq. You can bet that the US today would easily get 15 yes votes from the security council, if the US could stack the security council with the countries known to agree with the US position; as was the case in 1942. You can also bet that if France, and Germany were on that list in 1942, both France and Germany would have vetoed it, as France was already occupied by the fall of 1940, and France had a provisional gov. at that time. So what has changed. France would have vetoed the resolution to save its bony carcas in 1942, and it is threatening to veto the resolution in 2003. Different times, same result. Have the French ever taken a moral stand since the Us was started 60 yrs ago.