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Originally Posted by Cordelier
Why was such a declaration necessary, though? If Iraq was in material breach of the ceasefire and was given one final chance to comply and then issued a bogus statement that put them in further material breach, then wasn't the hand of the Security Council pretty much forced? How could you overlook the further material breach and still maintain any credibility?
Also, I'd like you to clarify why you believe that if Iraq was in material breach (and further material breach) of the Resolution 687 ceasefire then why didn't Resolution 678 come back into effect? If Resolution 678 authorized the Gulf War hostilities and those hostilities were suspended by Resolution 687, then once Resolution 687 was declared breached, then why shouldn't the state of active hostilities come out of suspension?
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We've been over this before...numerous times...678 provides for military action to push Saddams forces out of Kuwait and any other subsequent resolutions "to restore international peace and security in the area"...are you suggesting that we've done that?
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Originally Posted by Cordelier
Can the UN actually "declare war", though? It can authorize force to seek compliance with Security Council Resolutions, but aren't declarations of war a purely national function?
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Perhaps I could have used a better choice of words to indicate "military action for the removal of Saddam".
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Originally Posted by Cordelier
Can you name a modern war which wasn't the result of miscalculation?
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I wouldn't call our "diplomatic" bullshit and propaganda a miscalculation.
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Originally Posted by Cordelier
We would have been authorized to join you in Iraq - we could have had a vote on the matter in Parliament, just the way you did in Congress - but our Government decided that wasn't the way it wanted to go. We decided that we weren't going to participate without an explicit Security Council Resolution.
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Exactly...yet you can argue that we didn't need one.