arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

International legitimacy should be respected by all nations and not by some and abused by others. Otherwise International legitimacy becomes, as it is now, nothing but a cover up to the colonial aspirations of some nations.

The colonial mentality might accept that the big powers threaten, act and abuse the International legitimacy as stipulated by the UN Charter and International norms and agreements. But the mentality of the UN Charter refuses the Orwellian double speak, double standard practiced nowadays at the UN theater.

Bush address to the United Nations General Assembly has nothing new, although western media and some politicians have been waiting to know the US position on Iraq and therefor to decide their actions to according to it.

Nothing new for Iraqis who have been survived more than 12 years of US-UK continued aggression and the most comprehensive UN sanctions ever imposed in Human history.

New US threats of aggression add to the UN compliance to the United States of America's colonial aspirations and arrogance, but it adds to the US violations of the UN Charter.

If the United Nations granted the Bush administration the cover it demands, this would be the last straw that ends the UN credibility, legitimacy and world respect.

Lets hope that the remains of decency would prevail. And the UN keeps its record as an anti-colonial organizations that is still remembered as the International body that ended the colonial rule during the 20th Century, not as the organization that started the new colonial rule of the 21st Century.