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To: TigerPaw who wrote (207340)	10/18/2004 4:35:52 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575429

France and the rest of the security council supported Bush's call to get tough with Iraq and bring back inspections and disarmament. What they didn't go for was a unilateral attack with no plans and no reason. That's one interpretation. "supported Bush's call to get tough with Iraq"? What does that mean, anyway? My interpretaion is the Security Council fully supported Bush as he moved to give Saddam "one last chance" or else, with everyone's understanding that or else meant Saddam gets violently removed from power. Then when 4 months pass and Saddam has not yet fulfilled the obligations of his "one last chance" (surprising to absolutely no one), France, Germany and the rest of the Security Council fail to support the logical next move, the violent removal from power. It was a massive screw up on the part of the Security Council. If any dictator deserved the boot it was Saddam, so when the UN got the opportunity to give him the unified boot, and reaffirm the UN's place as an improver of the world, they went all wobbly! The UN suffered for it, Iraq suffered for it, and the US has suffered for it. Delay, delay, delay may have some appeal in the UN (have they done anything to stop 19 monhts of genocide in Darfur), but is not a solution for the world's problems. It was a massive UN screw up which now renders that body as definitely not the "go to guy" in solving some of the world's problems.