BBC News - UN 'should have led Iraq' action

The insurgency in Iraq would be a lesser problem if there had been a second UN resolution before military action, Peter Mandelson has said.

This is hilarious, it really is. The incoming EU commissioner feels the UN would have done a better job of turning Iraq into a democracy than the US is now doing. Why?

"International legitimacy... counts for a very great deal in international affairs," the incoming EU commissioner told a political gathering in Hungary

I get it. The Muslim Psychotics that are now murdering their own people at a rate even Ol'Saddam would have admired, and who have invented the new fad of sawing off people's heads on video, these depreved maniacs would have instantly turned into decent human beings if only the likes of Kofi Annan and Peter Hansen would have been in charge, and not those bad, mean Americans. Oh, but wait! Saddam would STILL HAVE BEEN IN POWER! There would have been NO INSURGENCY!
What there would have been is maybe one or two extra mass graves like this one, found yesterday. It is estimated Saddam murdered around 300.000 people during his reign. But the UN never had any intentions of getting rid of this monster. Neither did the EU.

So even their 20-20 hindsight vision is distorted beyond belief. Oh well, no news there.