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To: Garden Rose who wrote (216782)	2/7/2007 3:19:51 PM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The UN delegated its power and authority to the US Commander in Chief through a number of resolutions dating back to the original Gulf War. You have to remember it was a "Cease Fire Agreement" Former UN ambassador Bill Richardson and a former Canadian Prime Minister are on public record agreeing on that.In effect Bill Richardson is saying the previous administration agreed with that as well. You might not like that...but those are the facts. Does the US have to go back to the UN before laUNching a military strike? BILL RICHARDSON (New York): No, we don't Chris. It's always been America's position that there was sufficient authority in existing Security CoUNcil resolutions for us to take such UNilateral action. What happened today in the Security CoUNcil, 15-0, only reinforces that position, because if you look at the language in the resolution, it says that if Iraq fails to comply, it will be hit with the severest consequences. Other states had wanted to water that down. We won a big victory today. Mr. Ted McWhinney, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave the following explanation during a debate in Parliament: In fact what was done was a series of umbrella resolutions delegating the power to the UNited States commander in chief and responsible to the president of the UNited States. I say that was an UNusual action but the series of resolutions have a broad, legal authority for which I think it can reasonably be argued that the authority to take the present action is there. Message 23256133