Brits promise to avoid any sort of democracy if it doesn't deliver result they want

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday February 13, 2003 03:43 by Phuq Hedd - War Insomniacs' League

Geoff Hoon promises to 'do a Kosovo'!

Guardian article reports on possible Iraqi breach of 1991 ceasefire resolution by possession of rocket motors in "Al Samoud" missiles. The most interesting nugget is a promise by Geoff Hoon to ignore the UN Security Council if France uses it's veto. Again, the US/K (thanks iosaf!) shows that any sort of democracy is but a fig-leaf for power.

"The defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, speaking in Washington after talks with his US counterpart, Donald Rumsfeld, said: "We have made clear we want to see a second resolution. We regard that as being important politically for our own position, but also to build as wide a coalition around the world as we can ... If that second resolution were unreasonably blocked in the security council, we would take the kind of action we took in Kosovo, where we did not have a security council resolution."

When one considers that the UN Security Council is a fundamentally un-democratic body that contains 5 permanent seats for the big war-mongers (USA, China, France, UK, Russia) and another ten elected from the General Assembly http://www.un.org/Docs/scinfo.htm it's pretty repulsive that the US won't abide by the decisions of a council weighted in its favour. But, this wouldn't be the first time http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Terrorism/Global_Rogue.html