The Iraq War retrospective Thread

[kandrathe]

Kofi Annan, as Secretary-General, declared that the war was illegal by the charter. The US did not have the Security Council's permission to declare a war of aggression, and did it anyway. The charter (to which the US is signatory) says you can't do that. What part of this am I confusing?

So we are to abide by Kofi Annan's wishes? Was the US intervention in Serbia in 1999 done with US congress or the UN's blessing? Which wars in the UN's history have had the UN's blessing (choices might include those such as Aden, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Israeli 7-day war, Panama, Angola, Philippines, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Iraq round 1, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Somalia, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Falklands, Sudan/Darfur or Sierra Leone)? Why did Kofi Annan do nothing about the genocide in Africa during his administration, or was he too busy watching over the UN oil for food program to care?

Besides, Resolution 1441 is ambiguous and vague enough to allow the US to invade Canada if we so desired. We can dice the legalities of Res 1441 if you like, but it's old ground trampled by many. I know which side of the ambiguities you stand on.