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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think you are on crack. Other countries wanted the UN to take the lead. The administration didn't want to give up any power, and it didn't. ...
("Most European countries, including Britain, the main U.S. ally in Iraq, want the United Nations to take command in Iraq once the war is over.") or this or any number of pieces that you can find with your own Google search.
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I think his position has some merit. Visit the Korean monument, and you'll see the names of dozens of countries that joined the one and only UN war in history. Even then, it was our people who were mostly getting killed (aside, of course, from the Koreans and Chinese).
The UN would love to take the lead, as long as they don't have to provide the followers.
