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He said "UN resolutions" not "The UN Security council"

UN resolutions come from the UN Security Council. What is the problem?

So now you're going to play "ignore the fact that the council passed a resolution which Saddam was undeniably in violation of"?

Mike, I admire your courage in presenting your viewpoints in the face of so much verbal abuse, but in this case, I think you're wrong.
We had the obligation to go into Iraq simply because of Sadaam's refusal to honor the U.N. resolution to disarm.

Even it that were not the case, however, we would have still needed to go in.
Even if there are no MWDs, even if there were no inhumanities visited upon the Iraqi people, even if Iraq had no capability to harm America with weapons or terrorists, we would have still had to go in for one reason - oil.
I'm not saying that's the reason we went. I'm saying it was sufficient reason to oust Sadaam without any other contributing factor.

Iraq sits on the second largest oil reserve in the world.
The first largest is in the control of the Saud regime which is showing signs of toppling.
We needed to secure an oil supply independent of Saudi Arabia. They no longer have the power over the Mid-East that they had during Ronald Reagan's administration.

Ronald Reagan turned our economy around in the mid-80's by convincing Saudi Arabia to open the taps and drive the price of oil down to $11. a barrel.
George Bush doesn't have that option. OPEC won't stand for it, and Saudi Arabia isn't strong enough to make them do it.

The only thing in our economic arsenal which will facilitate a turn-around in this country is cheap energy.
We now have control of a source for that energy, and that is the reason France was so adamant about keeping us out of there. They had huge oil concessions in Iraq under the name of Total Fina Elf, since shortened to Total.
This is a win-win for the US in that we will develop the oil fields and produce the oil giving a large share to the Iraqi people to enhance their standard of living and at the same time hitting the oil markets with an abundance of oil outside of what OPEC produces driving the price of oil down to achieve our own economic recovery.