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Originally Posted by timewarrior2001
The war had nothing to do with the UN or indeed NATO. It was sanctioned by neither party. The war was essentially the US, the UK and few other countries declaring war on iraq without direction from NATO or the UN
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Yes I'm well aware of that.
But Iraq did defy the UN resolution. The UN should have backed up the resolution and gone in.
But the UN security council (Germany and especially France - who had just signed a new oil deal with Iraq) refused to go in.
Therefore making the UN and the resolutions it makes totally useless.
So USA decided to go in by itself and invited other nations to join it, but said it was going regardless.
They were joined by us (via the WMD argument), Australia, Spain, Japan, Italy as well I think and other nations too.