[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

Here's my $0.02. Little Kofi has just painted himself into a corner. When GW says we are going in with or without UN support, Kofi must make sure the UN "authorizes" the action before anything happens in order to fulfill his BS requirement that the UN must sanction any action of this nature. Otherwise he risks making himself and his POS organization irrelevant.

Funny thing is U.S. Congress will do the same thing.

[Greeklawyer]

The ability of the USA to act and succeed diminishes the significance and importance of the UN. When they argue for UN unity, UN elitists are really saying please do not leave us behind. The UN is stuggling to be seen as the leader of the world, the fact that the USA is ACTING like the leader of the world is in no way lost to the UN leadership.

The Kofi Annons and other elitists of the UN see the self defense actions of the USA as a limitation to their ambitions to a world tax system and to previous requests to a standing UN peacekeeping force (army).