Oliver North: Back in Iraq

There is no contradiction. All of the UN resolutions pertaining to Israel are Article VI resolutions, which call upon the parties subject to the resolution to negotiate in good faith with one another in the interest of reaching an equitable closure of the matter at dispute. The pertinent UN resolutions regarding Iraq are all Article VII resolutions, which are demands for compliance, bearing sanctions ranging from trade embargos to and including explicit military sanction. Read the UN charter, if you wish to discuss matters pertaining thereto with any semblance of actual foundational basis.

Timber, you omitted the reasons for the lack of article VII resolutions being the US vetos of said articles.

There is that, Dys ... there is that. What remains however is that Article VII resolutions require unanimous vote of the entire Security Council ... a veto, an abstention, or a "No" vote quashes the motion to enact an Article VII resolution. There is that, too.

Timber, with folks like you to explain it so well, there's no need for me to do that.

It seems to me that the defence (against double standards) falls, because what you describe is against the spirit of what the Resolutions intended.

Observance of the letter of the law, however grudgingly, and behaviour counter to the spirit of the law. After applying the veto, as stated.

I'm still waiting to see how Tony Blair's legal adviser concluded that this war was legal. We have not been allowed to see that judgement yet...only to send our countrymen to be killed.