Do you support a US led war on Iraq without UN approval?

No, I do not. The UN was created to prevent warmongering, and try to provide peaceful solutions. However, if the UN thinks that they need to stop something/someone with millitary force, they will.

 

Yes I do.

If France Veto's the resolution sure to come, then it is clear evidence that the UN is unwilling or unable as a body to accomplish their stated goal.

 

I support the United States.

Iraq has thumbed its nose at the United Nations for 12 years. The UN has become incompetant, complacent, inneffective and obsolete.

 

No, I don't. A coalition is needed, and that means rallying UN support.

 

No. By going over the UN on this the US become exactly what they say they are trying to fight. A Rogue State. The UN is the only voice of moderation left in the world, and the US can't expect it to be a rubber stamp for everything they want to do.

 

Yes, because if the UN is not willing to back up their own rules and laws, then they don't deserve to tell us what to do.

 

I support war under the UN. If that fails, then I'll reconsider.

E_S

 

Jedi_Suzuran, there IS already a coalition!

As we speak, there are currently British and Australian forces side by side with the US forces in the gulf.

 

Yep

 

NO
What a great coalition you have: US, UK and some east-European nations. With less than convincing 'proof'...
War sucks. I'm on the same side with herr Schröder this time.

 

Yes. The UN has become a useless group of rule-makers. They're like parents that tell their kids not to do something, and then shrug it off when the kid goes and does it anyway. It's time for the US and it's true allies like the UK and Australia (who have some of the coolest and nicest pilots in the world, by the way; I see them sometimes here at my base) and others to do the right thing and end the Hussein threat for good.

 

"The UN has become incompetant, complacent, inneffective and obsolete."

I totally agree with you. What good is an organisation if it takes ages to make decisions?!

 

I support the United States.

Iraq has thumbed its nose at the United Nations for 12 years. The UN has become incompetant, complacent, inneffective and obsolete.

Very well said Gatherer

 

The UN is exactly like the protrayal of the Senate in the PT, a bunch of indecisive, bumbling bureacrats . . . this is exactly why Padme led the vote of no confidence against the former Chancellor . . .

come on . . . twelve plus years and this issue has NOT gotted resolved YET???!!!! WTF!!!???? Either drop the entire UN resolutions against Iraq or enforce it!! one or the other . . . sssheeeesh . . .

the fact that the Bush administration has to even deal with this problem TWELVE YEARS later just show how sad and a failure the UN has been . . .

if those who are complaining about the US doing something about Iraq had DONE something during the twelve years then this wouldn't even be an issue . . .

these are the same nations that are whining that the US haven't signed up to their precious treaties (Kyoto for example) . . . whats the use of treaties/resolutions/international mandates if you don't enforce them . . .

DECLARED US coalition: Great Britain, Australia, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Kuwaitt, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and SIXTEEN other European nations . . .

DECLARED AGAINST: France, Germany, Russia, China, Cuba and Libya

you decide . . .

 

I don't support war with Iraq without the UN. We need the support of the rest of the world if we are to start a war.

 

I answered yes, but if/when we go in, even without the U.N. we will have a coalition of nations. If this happens then we may have a new alliance of those nations.

 

I answered NO.
The UN is the only institute, world wide, with power to make such a decision. If USA does act alone, it should punished and called into attention for derespecting the UN decision.

 

No for the very selfish reason that my good friend Joe is over there right now, and I would hate to think that there's a possibility of him getting killed.

 

No, and I wouldn't even if we got UN approval... It would simply lower my oppinion of the UN.

 

WhiteHorse
I answered NO.
The UN is the only institute, world wide, with power to make such a decision. If USA does act alone, it should punished and called into attention for derespecting the UN decision.

What decisions? It hasn't done anything except to talk endlessly and pass resolutions that it has no intention of enforcing.

Miana
No for the very selfish reason that my good friend Joe is over there right now, and I would hate to think that there's a possibility of him getting killed.

I have about 8 friends and family over there, including my cousin and my best friend. If war breaks out, my brother, my father, and a dozen others I am close to may go.

I say let them do their friggin jobs.

 

Yes.

 

I don't support war on Iraq even with UN approval.

 

I don't support attack/war against anyone with or wuthout approval of UN or anyone else. Never.
Self-defence is a completely different matter.
This "pre-empive war"-idea is strange: Bush claims that Iraq threatens the World, but as I see it, he threatens his own people and of his neighbors only Israel. Why would he attack other surrounding arab nations now, when he has some support from them?

 

Yes.

If the UN doesn't enforce it's own resolutions, than what good is it?

The U.S. has the sovereign right to take action on threats to our national security with or without UN approval. The UN isn't a world government.

The same attitude was apparent in 1930's Europe as in today: appeasement. There will always be people who are afraid of conflict, and will run away from it regardless if it is the right thing to do. If the pacifists would have had their way, possibly the entire Jewish race on the European continent would have been exterminated.

Now, you also didn't see these anti-war types when the Bosnian conflict (which I served in when I was in the military) was going on. Where was the opposition? Or the peace protests? I didn't see them there. Where were our European "allies" the French and the Germans in that conflict? I didn't hear much about them, either. Dissent is one thing, being anti-American another. The "peace" movement is blatantly anti-American.

Simply stated, the US has many allies in this endeavor, not as the media would have you believe. Many of the European countries besides the cowardly French and the anti-American German government (e.g., Schroder) are solidly behind us.

It really is irrelevant though, because the train has left Grand Central Station. In one month, probably around the New Moon, we will be at war and the people of Iraq will be liberated.