text: When has the UN ever maintained peace? When has the UN ever protected anybody (well, anybody who was not a corrupt and bloody tyrant)?\n\nWhat action is the UN taking with Sudan? Nothing.\nWhat action did the UN take with Rwanda. Nothing.\nWhat is the UN doing about the Chinese annihilation of Tibet? What are they doing about the Chinese brutality against the Fulan Gong? What are they doing about Palestinian terrorism? What did they do about the Serbian / Balkan wars and atrocities?\n\nThey've never done a thing, that's what. It is up to individual states, like the US, or a coalition of states, like those currently in Afghanistan and Iraq, to do something. And the UN resolutions against Iraq implied military force would be used if they failed to comply. How can you say then that the invasion of Iraq was contrary to the UN? In fact, you could actually make the argument that by leading the invasion of Iraq, Bush was actually making the UN relavent, instead of a debate society that issued toothless and meaningless resolutions.\n\nFurthermore, it was the UN that created the Oil-for-Food scandal that bribed many foreign governments, and lined Saddam's pockets with $25 billion, while Iraqis starved and suffered without medicine.\n\nPerhaps you should wonder why the UN Human rights council has some of the worst offenders on it - China, Sudan, etc.\n\nIt's a useless waste of money. It needs to be abandoned.