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To: GST who wrote (110343)	8/7/2003 3:41:57 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

If an individual nation has no right to interfere in the affairs of another nation, or to occupy and reshape the internal politics of another nation, what is the basis of the UN's right to do so? The UN only being a collection of individual states. Does a set of non-rights become a right, if assembled in sufficient numbers? Why does the US have no right to occupy Iraq, but once mandated to do so by the UN, suddenly acquires a right it didn't have before? What is the source of this wellspring of "legitimacy"? Derek