[RusIvan]

There was nothing the US did then that was comparable to Russia's violation of UN sanctions ++++

You think so? But unauthorised war violates Un Chapters. It is much bigger violation then some allerged (not proved!) russian sells.

[aristeides]

But unauthorised war violates Un Chapters.

I heard with my own ears the French ambassador to the U.S. say that Security Council Resolution 1441 is ambiguous on whether it permits military action against Iraq. Maybe it's unclear whether war against Iraq was authorized. But how can you flatly say that the war was "unauthorized" and "violated Un Chapters" without any qualification?

[FairOpinion]

"But unauthorised war violates Un Chapters."

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War IS authorized in case of self defense.

And what about all of Saddam's violations? We were enforcing 17 prior resolutions and it was only a cease fire with Saddam, the conditions of which he violated and continued to do so for years, while the UN did nothing.

We just resumed the war started and authorized by the UN.

[EaglesUpForever]

"Unauthorized war" is the way the majority of wars (i.e. Chechnya) have been waged throughout all of human history. Besides, even in the brief period that the USA aided Saddam, Russia was coddling Iraq far more than we were. Virtually all of their arms, obviously, are Russian.

The UN, thank God, never reached the authority of an "international government" as Russia and others have never followed it as an authority. Rather, when convenient, Russians engage in the fantasy that there is an international government that only the US has to obey.