Bush was not concerned about having a UN Resolution of any kind. But he could see advantage in having another nation actively involved on his side. In return for the UK's support, Blair's price was that UN Resolution.
I believe that, without it, the US would have gone in unilaterally and the UN would have irreparably lost its authority. The US could not again have generated an international concensus and the ability to deal with genuinely rogue states (N Korea?) would have been terribly diminished.
I think that Blair saw the danger to the UN and decided that its survival was worth the huge cost of joining a poorly planned war that was, even then, otherwise unjustified.
2006-10-11
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