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To: GST who wrote (195899)	8/7/2006 9:37:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<In reality it did> You seem unfamiliar with the meaning of the word "reality". Reality is what is real. Exactly, what is real. The real facts on the ground not the official fig leaf put over them. The US decided to have a war to push Iraq out of Kuwait, the US was by far the main force that achieved pushing Iraq out of Kuwait. The US was the primary actor in setting the terms of the ceasefire and enforcing the cease fire. The US was at war and we agreed to a ceasefire. We may have agreed to put a UN label over the war, but the UN was neither necessary nor sufficient to wage or prosecute the war. It was merely a label that people liked. You presume that the US speaks, acts and decides for the UN Not at all. The US speaks acts and decides for itself. It might get the UN's imprimatur, but it doesn't require it, and whether it does get it or does not doesn't change the reality on the ground that much. It doesn't, and doesn't have to speak, act, or decide for the UN and I never claimed it did.