[dirtboy]

Very well done. The only thing I would have added was a mention of the Oil for Food scandal as it pertains to question 3 - and how it apparently corrupted both the UN and countries opposed to the war such as France and Russia and gave them criminal reasons to oppose action against Saddam - but we still should beg for their assistance.

[Robert Teesdale]

Yes, that would have been good to include. I didn't want, however, the eventual audience for the article to focus on an instance of wrongdoing by the UN - and possibly consider it an exception - as opposed to the blanket incompetence and bankrupt uselessness of it.