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To: marcos who wrote (117599)	10/24/2003 3:22:19 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

The United States has given more deference to the United Nations than was truly deserved. As I have observed before, the UN is ineffectual as an enforcement body. The best it can do is to send in lightly armed men from donor countries to observe cease- fires that the parties truly agree upon. Whenever there is heavy lifting, it counts on the United States. Not only that, but we have to pay for the privilege. It is an immutable law that he who is expected to do the dirty work and pay for it will have the final say on how to deploy and utilize his forces. Of course any decision about the use of force or its timing was bound to come out of Washington. Without us, there would not have been containment in the first place, nor the pressure to let inspectors back in. We were not about to dither around so that Saddam could wear out interest in his activities, or force us to attack in the grueling summer, or force us to wait another year. If it had been France who was on the front line, it could call the shots. If had been Germany, then it could call them. It happened to be us. That is not evil, it is reality..........