UN says war in Iraq illegal

[Mara]

The United States, Britain and Australia on Thursday rejected a claim by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the war in Iraq was “illegal” because Washington and its coalition partners never got Security Council backing for the invasion.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6016893/

[Rafal Dudek]

yea, but those UN monkeys can never do anything right anyway.

[Chylde Roland]

I don't think they really care what the UN says anyway.

If they did, they wouldn't have invaded to begin with, which is what the UN was advising from the start.

[Bruenor]

Is the UN relevant anymore anyway?

:rolleyes:

[Jagndeke]

...a claim by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the war in Iraq was “illegal”

Kind of late to come up with that conclusion isn't it?!? :rolleyes:

[Gaim Mastr]

When I first started hearing about Kofi Annan I thought that he may be a very good man for the job. The more I hear about him and what he does, the more I think he needs to be demoted to scrubbing the UN toilets and emtying waste baskets.

This guy was the head person who dicated Iraq's oil-for-aid program. In other words, he was the main man who pushed which country go how much oil and what they could send to Iraq in exchange. This man was the power player for Saddam's billions in oil exports during most of the 90s and early 200s. Now that the UN kickbacks have ended with Saddam's downfall, Annan and the rest of them are feeling a little left out.

Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Annan+Iraq+oil+scandal)

[NotSoFast]

I guess taking over neighboring countries and using poison gas on your own people is A-OK, though? F@#& the UN.

[weed_wizard]

Theres no point in having a UN if countries 'go it alone' anyway. I always thought that war should not be started on Iraq without the backing of the UN. Thats just my opinion. Iraq is in an awful mess at the moment. Car bombs blowing up weekly. Its not really the act of people who are glad that they are now liberated as was.

[Gaim Mastr]

FYI, many of those kidnappings and suicide attacks are planned and carried out by foreign terrorists.

Of course, there are still large areas that continue to fight against the US foces in Iraq. Bush can push all he wants, but the point of fact is that Iraq is in no way able to have free elections yet. Not by a long shot. The UN is supposed to oversee the election process for fairness, accuracy and such. But the US forces simply cannot guarantee any sort of safety for the UN people or the voters standing in line.

I was all for going into Iraq and removing Saddam. But I've never been in favor of the way Bush went about it. He's really screwed the pooch on this on and now the US is bogged down in a Vietnam-style war that will consum our military people and equipment for many more years to come.