Using the UN to justify attacking Iraq is like the Fox guarding the Hen house. 95% of the UN member nations are ones that have the same thing to lose in their own countries that Saddam has to lose in Iraq. They are dictators, fascists, socialists, monarchs, etc.
The simple fact of the matter is that the very reason "terrorists" have attacked this country and hate us is because the United States sticks its nose into countries for its own benefit, caring nothing about the hornet's nests it stirs up after the fact.
If the world doesn't want our help, we shouldn't help it. If they do want our help, they should pay for it. I am sick of the Empire of the United States stealing my tax money at what is essentially gun-point, then spending it on countries overseas via incentives, grants, loans, military protection, and etc. propping up countries run by the likes of the House of Saud.
Then the US government has the nerve to be borrowing money in a deficit capacity, printing fiat dollars (also illegal) in a faulty and inflationary socialist attempt to prop up the failing economy here so we can all blissfully pretend that our straw house isn't going to come down all around us.
We have manufactured the very problem our country says its trying to solve.
North Korea has weapons of mass destruction, and the long range missile capability to hit the United States. There has been a cease fire there signed with terms, and North Korea is guilty of everything Iraq is, yet why are we not trying to take over that country also?
The reason is our country is a bully. Iraq is weak, North Korea is strong, and so we are going to choose to pick on a weakling.
It is illegal in this country to have a standing army unless war is declared. We never had one until World War II. There is a historical reason why a standing army is dangerous to liberty. It has a lot to do with armies wanting to make war, and getting us into the exact situation we are in now.
The real sad fact is this country is dying. We don't manufacture any real goods anymore, we can't produce educated citizens to compete in a global economy, we are losing whatever technology leadership we had. Companies like the one I work for are beginning to divest itself from the United States for all those reasons.
We need to focus on the real problems with this country. Iraq is just a very expensive diversion, in which people are going needlessly suffer and die, some of which will be American soldiers.
We are guilty of everything the world says we are. As such, we should give it exactly what it says it wants. That means we stop paying for UN membership, and actually make those goofs pay for their headquarters being in New York, we stop sending out tax dollars overseas to prop up foreign regimes, we bring our boys home from every country they are in unless they are paid for, and we start taking care of our own.
), I came across this summary of states with nuclear weapons .
