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Kofi Annan now has a brief opportunity to do what he says is necessary. Either the UN moves against Iraq, or we and our few useful allies will do so. That's what President Bush just said, in front of God and everybody at the UN.
In the next three weeks, Annan will either prove that he is a muddle-headed, over-paid mouthpiece for a useless organization, or not. I'm betting on "or not," based on his track record to date.
In three weeks our CenCom will be in Qatar. (That is why Hussein just threatened to "destroy" Qatar. But to get to Qatar, Huussein has to go through both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Is the House of Saud getting nervous? But I digress.) Our tanks and heavy armor are already on their way by ship. If we bring them off the boats with their motors running, they can turn north immediately. Almost certainly, they will offload in Kuwait.
The political attack on Li'l Tommy Daschle will take place in three weeks. Daschle will be unable to postpone the vote "until after the election." Then the attack on Huussein can begin in earnest -- though the 100-plane air raid on 6 September constituted the opening shots in this war.
The New York Times as usual, missed the start of the war. But FreeRepublic had the story.

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Bush should put it even plainer: It is not the "legitimacy" of the United States case that is at stake here (the case is rock solid), but the reputation of the UN, period. Either the UN allows a tyrant to flout UN resolutions, or they take advantage of the fact that its biggest benefactor (uh, that would be us) actually wants to do something about it, and it gets behind us.

The UN is making itself irrelevant, not the US. OK by me, frankly... They're just a bunch of bureaucrats with left-leaning, anti-US ideological predilections anyway. Screw them. Better still: let them screw themselves. I could care less about their dreams of a one world government.

While I'm uncomfortable with the idea of the US wantonly projecting its power, there are times when project one's power in an uninhibited fashion is the right thing to do. Aphganistan was an easier case, but a good case in piont. Wiping out a regime hell-bent on wiping us out and working with underground terrorist organizations to facilitate attacks on Americans is our right, whether or not the UN thinks its PC to do it without their say-so.

On to Baghdad...