It took the UN 7 weeks to debate, consider, compromise, and finally pass a single resolution (1441) on Iraq.
But now that the UN has finally figured out that it has left itself out of the most pressing international issue of the moment, it takes scant seconds for the UN to issue statement after statement on Iraq.
Well, let them talk. It's what they seem to do best.
Also, I don't remember the UN being very concerned about whatever government the U.S. set up in postwar Afghanistan last year, or even in postwar Germany circa 1946.
But now all of a sudden, they sure seem interested in having a hand in shaping postwar Iraq, and it isn't even "postwar" yet...