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To: GST who wrote (147196)	10/7/2004 4:32:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The US decided to kick Saddam out of Kuwait and did most of the work of seeing that he was kicked out. The UN it and of itself is little more than a debate club. The war was Iraq against the US and its allies. Applying a UN label on the force oposing Saddam helped some people to accept it but didn't change the reality. Just as in our Taiwan discussion, I care more about the actual facts then the labels and offical designations. The UN didn't come to the US and ask for help. The US decided to intervene and then let the UN endorse the US' action. The force was not under UN command (even nominal UN command like in Korea), nor did it answer to the structure of the UN, nor would the UN have been able to stop it. The US decided when the ceasefire would happen and what the conditions would be. Saying that it wasn't an American war or an American cease fire is nonsense. Tim