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To: Brumar89 who wrote (147956)	10/20/2004 7:34:18 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sanctions were working. It wasn't necessary to impose the will of the US on the UN, merely work with it. Post 9/11 getting the UN or NATO to support tighter containment would have been much easier; getting the UN and NATO to support invading Iraq was IMPOSSIBLE. Bush makes a lot of noise about the UN being relevant, but none about NATO being relevant. Why? NATO contains key alliances that go back to the start of NATO. If you can't convince your best friends of something, best military buddies in the world, its time to ask questions why. Politics shouldn't be about cheerleading. If we all asked critical questions there would be better policy as a result.