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To: Neocon who wrote (106266)	7/18/2003 7:46:26 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Security Council is the only body in the UN that can authorize force in the name of the UN. The US intervened in a civil war and brought the UN into the process only after it acted. There is nothing to prevent the US from taking action in its own name to stop a war. In the case of Iraq, the situation was entirely different. The US did not make war in Iraq to stop a civil war. The US did not make war on Iraq in the name of the UN. And the United States did not act to defend itself from a threat.