Remember that in passing Resolutions 687 and 1441 the permanent members could have restricted his authority, but they incorporated all previous resolutions without any modifications and that left the decision with Bush #2 as their chosen commander in chief.
The war against Saddam Hussein was resumed because Bush #2 finally obeyed UN and confirming Congressional mandates. The United States, heading a coalition exceeding that Churchill and Roosevelt assembled to confront Hitlers Germany, toppled Husseins regime, and forced the UN to confront the reason for its existence.
The opinions regarding Bush #2 and Iraq are so strongly rooted in media and opposition declamations that they gain rather than lose stability when factual arguments are presented. The worse they fare in debates; the more persuaded adherents are that deeper ground must exist which contrary arguments cannot reach, regardless of their substance.
Atlantic Charter (twenty six countries) http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/atlantic-charter
The Coalition of the Willing (thirty six countries) http://web.stanford.edu/class/e297a/The%20Coalition%20of%20the%20Willing.htm
Resolutions 687 and 1441 authorize driving Iraq’s army out of Kuwait, 687, and ordering Iraq to let UN inspectors back into Iraq, 1441.
That’s all that they say.
Claiming that they authorize an invasion of Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein is an exercise in arguing from silence.
With your logic anything not expressly prohibited is somehow authorized.
It amazes me how Bush jr’s apologists don’t want the buck to stop with him.
“The UN made me do it”.
At least Harry Truman had the balls to accept responsibility for his decisions.