This is right wing phoney baloney.
Newt conveniently forgets/ignores and you conveniently forget/ignore that George Bush had to get permission from the UN before invading Iraq. You have conveniently forgotten that SoS Powell had to grovel before the UN General Assembly to get the UN Mandate.
Then because Bush and the NeoCons had major problem in Iraq the US had to ask the UN to extend the Mandate TWICE.
And eventually, the UN said no more extensions and Bush was forced get permission from Iraq to stay longer, which was the Status of Forces Agreement that Bush negotiated with Iraq and signed.
You “conveniently forget” that G.W.Bush (POTUS#43) went to the UN because that org was involved in Desert Storm, 1991, and thanks to the NWO thinking of his father, G.W.B.Bush(POTUS#41), the UN had been trying to enforce the terms of the Armistice - in typical Kabuki theater style - which Iraq had broken numerous times and about which Clinton (POTUS#42) did nothing except hide behind.
The moral of the story is don’t expect other nations to join you in fighting off the bad guys. If you can’t do the whole thing by yourself, be creative. We had a treaty with Kuwait and were right to go kick Iraqi butts, but POTUS#41 is a globalist and wanted it to look, well, like a righteous group opposing evil.
After years of Saddam Hussein violating the terms of the Armistice he signed with 40+ allies of the U.S., we had every right to go back in and remove that son of a bitch. Going to the UN by this time was required because we were tied down by agreements.
What we should NOT have done is stay and arrogantly try to nation build, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, this in an area historians refer to as “the graveyard of empires”.
“... right wing phoney baloney...”; I think not.