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The United States does not need the "permission" of the United Nations before attacking another country. The United Nations entire purpose is have a forum where countries can settle their differences before dropping bombs on each other. No one seems to talk about this, but the Iraq is in violation of a number of UN resolutions and the UN seems to care less about it.
Iraw was defeated during the Gulf War by the United States, and there was a number of defined conditions put into place during the surrender of Iraq.
One of these conditions is that Iraw allow UN weapons inspectors into Iraw to confirm that all weapons of mass destruction have been eliminated, and that these inpectors remain in place until the UN (read: US) is happy that these conditions have bee meet.
Another one of these conditions was the no fly zones in Iraq. These have been put into place to protect the Kurds from the Iraqi military, who tends to gas the Kurds when they have nothing better to do. Also, these no fly zones also protect Kuwait from further attack. These no fly zones are not open to discussion; They are part of the surrender terms. Yet Iraq is free to launch missles at the planes on patrol in these no fly zones.
This is Germany and WWI and WW2 all over again. Germany was defeated and terms of surrender included that Germany could not re-arm itself; Hilter did what ever he wanted which resulted in WW2.
There may not be much support for a US attack, but no one is going to stand up to the US.
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