[Hugin]

I was dissapointed that Powell did not specifically put the Security Council on notice that if they refuse to act they will be irrelevent. Something to the effect that we will no longer invest our time, energy and money in an institution that refuses to take itself seriously. He should have bluntly told them that this is not just Saddam's last chance, it is theirs as well.

[Ole Okie]

I was dissapointed that Powell did not specifically put the Security Council on notice that if they refuse to act they will be irrelevent.

President Bush emphatically gave them notice in a Helen-Thomasless press conference last night. Powell didn't have to repeat it.

[Semper Paratus]

I was dissapointed that Powell did not specifically put the Security Council on notice that if they refuse to act they will be irrelevent.

Bush did that in his November speech to the GA.

If the UN is too obtuse to remember that, tuff humus.

[Domestic Church]

" Powell did not specifically put the Security Council on notice"

If they can't read the writing on the wall, they don't deserve any forewarning. And why give them a heads up when they aren't doing anything in our interest? Let them fall into the East River or ship them out to Paris.

And let this be a lesson to our own *rats*.

[ellery]

I think Powell needs to stay "good cop" -- it may be Bush who needs to tell the UN they're irrelevant.

[DB]

It is already too late. Powell knows that. The issue now is to force the vote so there is a hard record of their positions for all of history. They won't be able to later claim they supported us or the Iraqi people when the war is over and the Iraqis are free. That vote will haunt them for many years to come. It is a smart move by Bush.