>2. The UN Mandate to approve the Gulf War had a limited agenda, and did not include deposing the Iraqi leadership.
Ah, I see. I didn't know this detail. So in this case, the U.S. did act according to U.N. guidelines.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
