From: nobody

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This is why the UN in early 2003 refused to give the USA a resolution which
would have granted the USA the right to invade.

NO country needs the UN's "permission" to do anything in any area not under the
UN's control. The UN had no controlling presence in Iraq and therefore had no
legal objection to anyone invading.

I sure hope you don't actually believe the UN is a governing body. If you do
you are sadly mistaken.

As an aside the UN has authorized war under its flag exactly twice and they won
neither: Korea and Gulf War.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired