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To: kumar who wrote (89370)	4/2/2003 9:26:48 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

By "teeth" I meant that the UN has never had the independent means of enforcing any of its decrees, outside of its member states. Its effectiveness depending on the willingness of countries to obey or go along with those decrees. For example, sanctions worked against South Africa, not against Iraq. And there was not a damn thing that the UN could do to "make" Sadaam cooperate or other countries stop selling them weapons. National interests triumphed over any UN decrees.