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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 167655" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>Canon,</p><p></p><p> Feel free to quote Ari Fleischer, but let's keep in mind that he's not an independent legal scholar giving an objective analysis. He was the White House press secretary, and his job was to justify the administration's actions. In other words, just because Ari says it doesn't make it so. </p><p></p><p> UN resolution 678 was drafted specifically to enforce UN resolution 660, which was drafted specifically to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait back in 1990. Yeah, you can try and make the argument that the line in 678 about "subsequent resolutions" is enough to justify the invasion of 2003, but it's nowhere near the solid case that Fleischer tried to make it into. Not even close. The UN didn't buy it, and refused to authorize the use of force. There's absolutely no point in citing UN resolutions as justification for your actions if you're not going accept the UN's authority in ruling on them. It's like a prosecutor who, after failing to get a guilty conviction from the court, say's "screw it, I'm hanging the guy anyway".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 167655, member: 4805"] Canon, Feel free to quote Ari Fleischer, but let's keep in mind that he's not an independent legal scholar giving an objective analysis. He was the White House press secretary, and his job was to justify the administration's actions. In other words, just because Ari says it doesn't make it so. UN resolution 678 was drafted specifically to enforce UN resolution 660, which was drafted specifically to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait back in 1990. Yeah, you can try and make the argument that the line in 678 about "subsequent resolutions" is enough to justify the invasion of 2003, but it's nowhere near the solid case that Fleischer tried to make it into. Not even close. The UN didn't buy it, and refused to authorize the use of force. There's absolutely no point in citing UN resolutions as justification for your actions if you're not going accept the UN's authority in ruling on them. It's like a prosecutor who, after failing to get a guilty conviction from the court, say's "screw it, I'm hanging the guy anyway". [/QUOTE]
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