Chaffers:
"Bush has the opportunity to show the UN up for what it is.
Whereas a resolution (yet another one) condemning Israel is merely water off the ducks back; the UN is simply impotent when it comes to the States."
What the UN is is the supreme arbiter of international disputes, not an American hyper power on the cusp of becoming the World's first democratic 'Rogue State'.
"An attack on Iraq despite howls of protest from the UN would make it clear where the real power lies."
Perhaps so. But do you think it would, in the long term, make the USA more or less of a tempting target for another 9/11 type terrorist attack. Moreover, under the UN charter it is clear that a State's right to use military force in self defence requires an attack to have been made against that state. Thus military action would expose the USA to international sanctions.