Bush rocked the boat by actually enforcing their resolutions. I think they were caught off-guard by someone who would interpet a resolution of 'serious consequences' as something worth more than a scrape of paper it was written on. You can bet they won't make that mistake in the future....if they have a future that is.
The invasion of Iraq and the Abu Ghraib scandal led to the defeat of the US in the battle "for the minds and hearts" of the global public. Several shops in Ankara, the capital of a NATO member state, have "Americans Not Allowed" signs in their windows above photographs of US servicemen torturing Abu Ghraib inmates. When Washington criticizes the UN for its failure to settle the Iraqi problem, it disregards the fact that this helped the organization to keep face, in particular, in the Arab world. But the actions of the US administration had achieved the opposite: the potentialof American "soft power" has decreased everywhere in the world. But king-of-the-hill America does not seem to notice this.
This is the part that angers me the most about the article. Where is the condemnation of Saddam murdering hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's? Or the million that was killed in the Iran war?
They focus on panties on the heads of prisoners.