re: #68 iossarian

You forget the armies of US and UK lawyers desperately inventing legal precedent to justify the invasion.

So far as I know, on the international front anyway, none of it worked. The UN Security Council never gave the go ahead for the invasion. That is the only way an act of aggression is allowed. Like when Kuwait was liberated.

People forget that the senior Bush didn’t conquer Iraq is because that act was outside of the UN resolution in support of the war. The combined forces were charged with kicking Iraq out of Kuwait and nothing more.

They also forget that when the senior Bush talked about ‘a new world order’ that he wasn’t speaking about a Pax Americana. He was trying to set the precedent to allow the UN to play a more serious role in international affairs, to make sure that after the fall of the Soviet Bloc that the world remained at peace.

Like Chretien, I wasn’t fond of Bush Sr., but on this he was very correct.