@cicerone imposter,
It is interesting to note British punctilliousness with respect to the Blair government's participation in the Iraqi intervention and their current participation in the Libyan one.
Is there a moral distinction to be made between the murderousness of the two tyrants? On both a relative and absolute scale Saddam appears to haver been a bit worse than Ghadaffi.
In both cases there were UN resolutions that, arguably at least, authorized some intervention, though the present one for Libya is less ambiguous - though by all appearances, probably not a lot less contentious among those in the world who interpret it after the fact.
What then motivates the government that investigates the one and willingly pursues the other?
What does all this tell us about "legitimacy" as conferred by the UN?