Please consider re-reading my original post to you...consider the numerous UN resolutions that the USA had a part in as a standing member of the UN Security Council...I have no love for the UN or our involvement in it either, but it can be used.
Also reconsider the question regarding the Iraqi government planning and attempting to carry out an assassination on a former US President as “payback” for their loss in Desert Storm.
You were attempting to build a strawman argument with the Rwandans...I don’t disagree that the world “community” was negligent in allowing that genocide to occur...but that’s another discussion.
OK, I’ll admit that things are a bit more complicated than the simplistic scenario that I laid out but the fact remains that despite a very concerted effort by our military to find WMD in Iraq after we invaded yielded no significant finds kind of puts the lie to the reasoning for our invasion and does suggest the the UN was right (hey a stopped clock is right twice a day). I really don’t put much stock in the truthfulness of any governmental organization (and that includes the US) so all of them are suspect in my eyes.
In reality the best guess for the war is to follow the money in most cases but having insufficient information on who really profited from this I can’t really say what all the reasons were. All I can say is that the assertion that Saddam was involved in the 911 attacks and Al Quada is totally off base and people trying to tie him to that in some vain attempt to justify our invasion is false and needs to be brought to light.
As far as the Rwandans my point was that we don’t always rush to the points of conflicts because of these types of things but only when it is in our “interests” so all those waving around the fact that Saddam was a bad man and killed his people are way off base. The US uses it as a propaganda item and nothing more.