Washington insists U.N. resolutions in effect since the Gulf War provide all the authorization needed for an attack.
For more than a decade we have tried everything diplomacy, sanctions, inspections, limited military action except war to convince Saddam to keep the promises he made, and the U.N. endorsed, to end the Gulf War.
The United States accuses Iraq of trying to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in violation of U.N. resolutions dating back to the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
During the debate over whether to invade Iraq, the Bush administration argued repeatedly that Iraq was violating U.N. resolutions requiring its disarmament after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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By evading U.N. sanctions and frustrating arms inspections since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Saddam poses "exactly the kind of aggressive threat the United Nations was born to confront, " he said.
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And we should work with Europe, Japan and the Gulf states to find every avenue outside the U.N. to isolate the Iranian regime from cutting off loan guarantees and expanding financial sanctions, to banning the export of refined petroleum to Iran, to boycotting firms associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, whose Quds force has rightly been labeled a terrorist organization.
But, as in the Persian Gulf, it would be under coalition control, not U.N. control.
The U.N. created the oil-for-food program as a loophole in post-Gulf War sanctions, allowing Iraq to sell oil so Baghdad could purchase food, medicine and other humanitarian needs.
Despite his obvious shortcomings as IAEA chief before the Gulf War, after the war he was asked to head the U.N. inspections team, this time in tandem with Mr. Ekus.
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The reward Iraq now has been encouraged to expect is the lifting of the oil export embargo, which was meant to force Iraq not only to give access to U.N. inspectors but also to comply with other important provisions of the cease-fire agreement that ended the Gulf War.
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