This nonsense has gone on long enough.
It costs billions to keep troops in the Middle East while the UN endlessly debates and purposely delays. If left up to them, it'll be forever and a day before anything gets "authorized". And the United States of America never ceded its war authority to the UN in any case.
Inspections? You're kidding. The fact that inspections would occur was broadcast to Saddam months in advance. Is anyone surprised that all the goodies disappeared?
Saddam has made it perfectly clear that the only thing he responds to is force. He defies the UN until the US makes amother threatening gesture, then gives up something to get our "allies" like France to run cover for him.
Let's give him a dose of force he'll remember all the days of his short remaining life.
An Arab on Israel and the Arab nations:
"Imagine a Free Iraq"
worldnetdaily.com
"The Iraqi government continued to commit widespread and gross human rights violations, including the extensive use of the death penalty and the extrajudicial execution of prisoners, the forced expulsion of ethnic minorities from government-controlled areas in the oil-rich region of Kirkuk and elsewhere, the arbitrary arrest of suspected political opponents and members of their families, and the torture and ill-treatment of detainees.
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On May 16 [2001], the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the human rights and humanitarian situation in Iraq, as well as issues relating to regional security and disarmament. The resolution condemned the "regime of terror against all levels of society" and the continued perpetration of gross human rights violations. The resolution urged the government to abide by its international treaty obligations and to comply with relevant Security Council resolutions. It called for the deployment of human rights observers in Iraq and the creation of an international commission to investigate disappearances throughout the country. It also called for the establishment of an ad hoc international tribunal under U.N. auspices "to bring those Iraq regime officials responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law" to justice.
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On September 19, President Bush submitted a draft resolution to the U.S. Congress requesting authorization for the use of force against Iraq. The resolution, passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on October 10 and 11 respectively, gave President Bush the authority to use force "as he determines to be necessary and appropriate," without requiring U.N. or further congressional approval. "
- -Human Rights Watch
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