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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That's at least two steps removed from the argument we're having. Club was saying that the UN didn't want to run Iraq, and I said he was on crack.
We have gone to war since Korea without the UN's say-so under both Democratic and Republican presidents. No one thinks the UN should have a veto power over our military.
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That depends on what we mean by "run." The UN may have wanted to run the oil contracts and the like, but they certainly did not want to run, and had no capacity to run, the post-war security apparatus. Do you think the "insurgency" would have dropped their guns if the UN rather than the US had been running post war Iraq? Certainly not. So what would the UN have done, held a meeting about it?
