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The U.N. was compromised before Bush even thought about going there and reasoning with them. Moreover, the security council was compromised. Mr. Bush had zero chance of coopting their assistance by rational,reasoned admonishements because, unknown to him, was the Oil-for-food confidence game that Kofi Annan was running. They ran their shell game for 12 years and 17 U.N. resolutions...sound and fury signifying nothing because the very people who might have done something to prevent this necessary war were a very large part of the cause of the war. Think about it. If the Secretary General had not been stealing food from the mouths of children and had been attending to his buisness in the sober way that would have legitimized the U.N. this war would never have materialized. If the U.N. had not coopted Hussein, Chirac,Putin,et.al. and they had actually worked to feed these people rather than steal from them, then the people themselves may have risen up, perhaps with outside help, and done what we are forced to do now. At any rate, their theft and, at my most generous, Clintons turning a blind eye if not a participant, created and cultured this enormous contempt in Hussein. He felt he could continue his reign of terror because the U.N., and other world leaders, once they got a taste of money in their personal bank accounts, were subject to Hussein blackmailing them. So now, in rides an honest man in George Bush. His core values will not allow his country to remain at risk. He is looking at a madman, which his intelligence community and other countries intelligence, tells him represent a clear and present danger to the U.S.A. He is not going to sit by and act reflexly like his predessor did. Before we are attacked, he will remove the source of danger.
We certainly do not know what has been prevented by this action. We do not know if islamofascists around the world are planning to attack easier targets than the U.S.A. This war is necessary today because the U.N. officials did not do their jobs. They were dishonest and vile and lacking in any honor. Now they take Mr.Bush to taske for dealing with problems of their creation, even to the point of trying to intervene in a national election. The U.N. is worse than a ship adrift. It is oriented against the United States, and has member states who would act to destroy us if they thought they could get away with it. I know that President Bush must have a visceral hatred for these people anytime an American is harmed or killed. He knows that if we leave now it will become a breeding ground for terrorrists and should they come to power, would then have an established nation-state from which to export their terror, not to mention the money from oil which would allow production of WMD, but without compuction against using them. Our leaving would result in a much wider war. The American people, if the late 60's and early 70's prove the model, may back off support. This would have catastrophic repercussions, not just for the U.S. but the entire world.