Jacko - as a correspondent/journalist or whatever I would expect you to know that, whatever you choose to call any forthcoming combat by the Western alliance against Iraq, it is quite simply a resumption of hostilities, Iraq having failed, miserably, despite a twelve year window of opportunity, to abide by the terms and conditions it agreed to at the cease-fire signed in 1991.
It is not a new war and justification is already there to resume hostilities, asking the UN is just a nicety that seems to have gone straight over many, many heads.
[A private view, not a moderating one!]