You may have forogotten the gulf war of 1991, that was authorized by the UN.
At the end of the fighting, Iraq agreed to follow certain guidelines.
However, the war never ended, it was still on going till this day, if you
read the agreement between Iraq and the Coalition. When they failed to
comply, the war is back on. That is why we are there. So, eventhough it
was not needed, your UN did authorized this war.


"David Dyer-Bennet" wrote in message
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"Tom Hyslip" writes:

So when did Al Queda seek permission to attack the USA. I don't remember
the
Sudan, Libya, Iran, and the other great countries in the UN giving them
permission.

I also don't recall any mention of the UN or international law in the
U.S.
Consititution.

Seems odd, but I beat you would not have wanted the USA to fight against
Germany in WWII because they didn't attack us, only Japan did. Oh ya,
and
we didn't have anyones permission. Maybe we shouldn't have fought
against
Japan either.

Hey, Germany formally declared war on us! By the standards of the
time in international law, that's entirely adequate grounds.

And Japan committed a hostile act, to which we responded to with a
formal declaration of war, all right and proper, and fully within the
international law of the time on the topic.

Neither of which are in any way similar to what we're now doing (to
our shame) to Iraq.
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