RE: America is a spent force in international politics

>>This helps to explain why, if it does not get the UN
>Security Council to agree to it’s resolution to include the
>use of force against Iraq, it will go it alone anyway.
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That´s what the president keeps saying, but I am not so sure that without the resolution they would go alone. However I am sure, they´ll get the resolution at the end, so no need to make that decission. If they had wanted to go alone, they would have done it before.