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This 3 page paper provides talking points to use to refute U.N. condemnation of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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justification for its actions can be found within Security Council resolutions. Discussion The U.S. led an invasion of Iraq based largely on Iraqs defiance of numerous U.N. resolutions; specifically, Resolution
1441, castigates Iraq for its continued refusal to comply with the U.N. inspectors (Resolution 1441, 2002). Resolution 1441 found that Iraq was in "material breach of its obligations ... in
particular through Iraqs failure to cooperate with United Nations inspectors and the IAEA, and to complete the actions required under paragraphs 8 to 13 of resolution 687 (1991)" (Resolution 1441,
2002). The Resolution warned Iraq that violation of its provisions would mean that Iraq was in "material breach" of the Resolution (Resolution 1441, 2002). Furthermore, a breach of the Resolution
was construed as a breach of the U.N. Charter itself, and under another important agreement, the Vienna Convention, such a breach gives parties specially affected by the breach the right
to suspend the treaty (Kirgis, 2002 - Resolution 1441). The justification for the U.S. invasion is a sort of domino effect: Resolution 1441 called upon Iraq to allow the weapons
inspectors in; it did not, thus breaching the Resolution which breaches the Charter; and under the Vienna Convention such a breach obviates any treaties such that an "affected party" can
take action. The U.S. argued that it was specially affected because it was quite likely to be attacked again, based on 2001, and thus it acted, choosing to undertake an
invasion of Iraq as a pre-emptive measure. This is the justification for the invasion in the first place; but on September 15, 2004, then-U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said the
war was illegal. Asked directly by a BBC interviewer about the war, Mr. Annan said "I have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN charter. From our point
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