[punky]

I am not anti-UN. The UN is something the world it needs to protect itself, from itself. I am against most of the influential people within the UN who are either inept, corrupt, or both. They need to be replaced, and the entire organisation needs a u-turn.

You say the war on Iraq is illegal without tacit UN approval (I agree with that, but that means that the older existing resolutions aren't valid here, which I disagree with, hence it had UN approval), but I think that, as well as people of the world who seem more or less content to stand by while the situation dragged on, speaks volumes about what we have become. It is ok for you and I, in luxury, afforded wonderful civil and human rights, and state protection that the Iraqis never had. People in general have become numb to atrocities commited around the world, and that is an extremely appalling and unacceptable state of affairs, I feel.