[witchcurlgirl]

Originally Posted by Just Kill Me

Oh goodness... I just couldn't stay away...
Here's what needs to happen; the US needs to pull out, we need to let Iraq have a civil war or whatever... let all hell break loose (even more so than now) and then the entire world will be stunned by the atrocities (does the world really care? yes, as long as there is money to be made an example would be that whole mess in the balkans; we took our sweet time there)... so anyway once the world is in shock and awe of the civil war and suicide bombings and pictures of dead & injured children THEN the UN will go in...
You know what would have been interesting? If the UN policed our asses (US) and when we started stepping on Hussein's toes (I'm not up for a debate on what a bastard he was) that would have been interesting. I still don't understand why no one else was like "Hey, wtf are you doing???? You can't just go in there!" Why didn't anyone put our military in check? That still has me puzzled.

The UN did what it could, it followed international law. They had security council meetings, and the US defied the UN, claiming it had the right to "pre-emptive self defense" in this case.


The UN does not have the manpower to put troops in the field up against the US forces to try to stop the invasion of Iraq. The 10 main troop-contributing countries to UN peacekeeping operations as of March 2007 were Pakistan(10,173 troops), Bangladesh(9,675), India (9,471), Nepal (3,626), Jordan (3,564), Uruguay (2,583), Italy(2,539), Ghana, Nigeria and France