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To: GST who wrote (109288)	8/1/2003 2:05:04 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, the Security Council was designed to deal with issues like Iraq. But it was relying on us to do the heavy lifting. Even Blix acknowledged that our pressure was the only thing causing any real cooperation with the inspectors. If we are the one's supplying the enforcement might, it is inevitable that it becomes our operation. Yes, we are inextricably linked to other countries, as they are to us. In fact, we have "carried" the international community for sometime, providing a lot of money and manpower to ensure European defense; contributing the greatest amount of capital to the World Bank and IMF of any country, defending the Japanese, Taiwan, and Phillippines; providing foreign aid to many governments, directly or indirectly. The US has no special authority? No, I guess not, but it has a lot of influence, both on the grounds of its importance in the international system, and through its prestige as the chief democracy. A lot of countries supported us, a lot did not. We were not authorized by the Security Council, but we were not condemned, either. And even Blix has expressed relief that Saddam is overthrown. Do you think that taking a moral position is a matter of momentary popularity? No one in his right mind regrets the overthrow of the Iraqi regime, regardless of what other beefs they may have surrounding our action. We do not recognize the superiority of international law to national sovereignty in this country, as a matter of constitutional law. Therefore, Congressional authorization made the invasion legal. As for its morality, the evil of the Iraqi regime made it moral, in and of itself........