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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (159915)	1/20/2004 7:48:18 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

uni-one, lateral-sided. Words having meaning in context. A unilateral attack is one-sided in the sense that it is not in response to an imminent threat of attack or an actual attack. We were not attacked by Iraq and were in no danger of being attacked. Our invasion was unilateral. You might be confusing unilateral with multilateral. There is no meaning attached to the concept of a multilateral attack. You could, however, have a unilateral attack by a multinational force, which is technically correct if you want to call the US and Britain and a rag-tag group of countries a "multinational force". Those who support the war wanted to pretend it was legitimate and so hide behind the idea that there was some great multinational force. But it makes no difference -- the attack was unilateral. The opposite of a unilateral attack is not a multilateral attack. None of this really matters because those who support this war are not inclined to think too deeply about the implications of the United States launching unilateral attacks on other countries.