[stonechisel]

Hope you are right. I hope we can neutralize Iraq before it's too late. There is a shift in who may be calling the shots since the China trip. The UN will have a greater roll in calling our shots. If C.Powell has anything to say about it we will back off again just before the job is complete. Bush promised Russia and China we would not expand into other countries w/out UN approval. Will that happen?

[White Mountain]

You write:

There is a shift in who may be calling the shots since the China trip. The UN will have a greater roll in calling our shots. If C.Powell has anything to say about it we will back off again just before the job is complete. Bush promised Russia and China we would not expand into other countries w/out UN approval.

I had not read that.

We can't necessarily depend on the UN to support us when we need it, because there are so many votes there that are soft on terrorism or secretly funding it.

As I recall, they voted overwhelmingly to seat Syria on the Security Council within the last 45 days.