Originally Posted by powerclown

What kind of ridiculous game is it when a world body such as the UN has to warn an aggressive dictator 17 times to come into compliance?? It is unfortunate that the UN lacked the resolve to enforce any 17 of their own resolutions. Which brings up the question: What credibility does the UN 'Security Council' have when it fails to live up to responsibilities it sets out for itself? What kind of security does it provide to the world - what type of example does this set to those behaving illegally - when it has proven itself too weak to carry out its own rules?

A list of the 17 UN Security Council Resolutions broken by Hussein.
Security Council Resolutions Concerning Iraq

Grounds for punishment were laid out by the UN, and carried out by the US.