Enforcing UN decrees equals conservatism?(Insider Report)

 
   The evidence shows that Bush's reasons for going to war 
   against Iraq were fully rooted, as he has said all along, in 
   successive UN resolutions issued since ... 1990.... Within 
   weeks after the fall of Baghdad, the United Nations ended 
   up endorsing the U.S.-led occupation and lifted sanctions 
   against Iraq.... Bush kept up the pressure behind the recalcitrant 
   United Nations. At a Nov. 20, 2002, NATO summit, 
   he stated, "The United Nations has said [to Saddam], 'You 
   must disarm.' And 16 times, he's said, 'Oh, of course I will'--but 
   never did. And so, the game's over with; we're through 
   with that. And now he's going to disarm one way or another." 
   ... The president warned that the United States would lead 
   a coalition to enforce UN resolutions. 

This capsule summary of the run-up to the most recent war with Iraq duplicates much of what has been reported in THE NEW AMERICAN. All but alone in the "conservative" media, this publication has pointed out--beginning months prior to the invasion--that the war on Iraq was designed to empower the UN, rather than being conducted in defiance of the world body. The same case has been made with compelling clarity in the ...