What's Left  September 9, 2002   Marketing a War of Aggression
By Stephen Gowans  "British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S.
President George W. Bush have agreed to topple Saddam Hussein by
military means even if the United Nations does not pass a
Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force."  "The
UN has got to be the way of dealing with this issue, not the way
of avoiding dealing with it," Blair says.  In other words, if
the UN authorizes what Washington is going to do anyway, it's
effective and a "muscular, robust moral force."  If the UN
doesn't authorize Washington's war of aggression, (or "wars,"
since there will be more to follow), it's a way of avoiding
pressing "moral" problems, and must be side-stepped.  In short,
the UN's legitimacy is to be measured by whether it lines up
with US foreign policy goals. The UN is to be subordinate to the
United States; all other countries subordinate to the UN, except
where exempted by Washington or a Security Council veto.  So it
is that the White Ho