where is the UN on Iraq and why aren't they sending troops?

Question

why is it just the US,BRITAIN and Australia sending troops to Iraq?
Iraq is why the UN was formed to help people that can't help them selfs so where are they?

yea but as soon as this war is over all these countrys will want iraq oil now won't they

sgtnitnoy
the UN was formed to help country's that couldn't help them selfs now as far as i know from what i have herd from others Iraq fits that bill

Answer 1

You're talking about the organization who allowed its members to be bribed under the Hussein regime to prevent the UN inspectors from actually visiting the country, as they were supposed to.

Had the UN followed the terms of surrender from the first Gulf War, we wouldn't be in Iraq now. Unfortunately, they were more interested in getting the bribes & abusing small children in African countries then they were in doing their job.

Where are they now? Hiding their heads in the sand & hoping the American population doesn't realize what a corrupt useless world body the UN has become. We're one of the only countries that pays our "dues" - most countries that belong to the UN don't pay what they're supposed to. If we stopped contributing to them, the UN would collapse - then perhaps it could be reorganized into a useful, transparent organization.

Answer 2

The UN *IS* in Iraq. You'll recall there were over 12 different UN resolutions authorizing the use of force in Iraq, there was also the cease-fire from the prior war in Iraq that Hussein was violating.

In any case - there are currently troops from US, Poland, Australia, The United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Bulgaria, Romania, Denmark, El Salvador, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Latvia, Albania, Czech Republic, LIthuania, Armenia, Bosnia, Macdonia, Estonia, Kazakstan, Moldovia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Fiji.

That's 27 countries. A bit more than a handful.

Troopers who were there and left at the end of their deployments or pulled out by their governments, include Spain, Italy, Canada, Portugal, Netherlands, the Ukraine, Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, Tonga, Iceland(!)...

That's another 15. Quite a bit more than a handful now.

This includes the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).

That's pretty unilateral, hunh? Liberals keep using that word...I don't think it means what they think it means.

Keep in mind it's tough for most countries (except the US and Russia) to put troops anywhere - they lack much force projection capability (Sealift and Airlift particularly) and it's difficult to rely on another nation to protect your troops (ALL troopers need protecting - When you send a small group, they're vunlerable)

Now, about the UN. The UN was formed to replace the failed League of Nations as an attempt to resolve international differences at a conference table rather than on a battlefield. Like the League, it's been a collossal failure, primarily due to it's design. The vast majority of voting members of the General Assembly are corrupt dictatorships and failed states. This makes getting much of anything done in the GA difficult - especially if you're a democracy. The Security Council is where the real 'muscle' is, but even that is usually deadlocked over wrangling between the permanent members. I'm in favor of abandoning the UN and moving to a Congress of Democracies model as others have proposed.

The UN has not troops of its own. Member nations must vote to send troops as part of various UN 'commands' to any particular spot - see the above for why this can be difficult. Korea only got UN troops because the Soviet Union walked out of the vote - Last time they did THAT! LOL. Further, current scandals involving UN Peacekeeping troops (see their failures in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia - most anyplace) have shown them to be ineffective. They have been caught-out forming child prostitution and pornography rings multiple times and have sat back and watched while genocide took place, literally in front of their tanks (This was a Dutch force in Bosnia).

To sum up...The UN wasn't formed to hep people who can't help themselves - Though they've tried to do that. The UN was formed to try to prevent another world war.

Orion

EDIT: For you WMD folks, I've attached links to two lists of the WMD's located so far.

Answer 3

whether the UN did deliver troops they could be the comparable troops in basic terms with UN painted on there autos. The UN does not extremely have troops whilst they deliver troops it is the troops different countries mortgage them. So incredibly what's the version between the U. S., Britain, and Australia sending troops and the U. S., Britain, and Australia sending the precise comparable troops yet making them repaint there autos until eventually now they leave. The UN has no potential. They don’t convey mutually taxes they only get an exceptionally minimum dues from the contributors. they have not got a single soldier, investigator or something. it is in easy terms representatives from countries arguing. The purpose whilst it become made become no longer for it to be a international government it become to maintain communication open so wars does no longer start up over loss of communication. The UN has no actual potential different then to bypass resolutions asserting we do in contrast to what you're doing yet we won't do something approximately it so we are able to deliver you a advise letter. additionally the UN does not desire to get there arms grimy in this mess. we've contradicting objectives so we won't in any respect end it. we desire them to have a democracy and a central authority that promotes Western type freedoms. the subject is in a democracy you get what the human beings desire, and the human beings of that u . s . a . desire human beings to do what they think approximately suitable and ethical and carry that bigger then Western freedoms. you won't be in a position to have a democracy with your values if the human beings of the rustic have not got your values you're able to p.c.. one or the different. whilst maximum the contributors of the UN at the instant are not democratic counties and don't fee own freedom above morality why might they attempt to unfold those believes? Freedom of religion extremely is against the religion of countless them. some countries changing from the expert faith is punishable with the help of dying. Why might they help us unfold our morel values in the event that they do no longer accept as true with them?

Answer 4

Technically speaking the UN has troops in Iraq.
The United States, Britain, Australia, Italy, Poland and several other countries are in Iraq
and these countries are members of the United Nations!!!

Answer 5

The UN is in Iraq.

US , British, Australian and other Coalition forces now in Iraq are there as part of a UN authorized Multinational Force.

The UN Multional Force was created by :

UN Security Council resolution 1546 (2004)

extended by

UN Security Council resolution 1637 (2005).

and extended again by

UN Security Council resolution 1723 (2006).

Answer 6

The UN doesn't have troops. It has peacekeepers. That means guys in blue hats who will turn their backs on genocide and rape for a paycheck greatly funded by US taxpayers. They only go if they feel safe enough AND if invited by the host country. I don't think they have guns or if they do they don't carry bullets.

No, I don't get it either.

BTW the Coalition was 40some nations that sent troops or otherwise aid/ed the effort.

Use of the word 'unilateral' was and is a lie used by hatemongers and ignorants parroting that lie.

Answer 7

Iraq was not the reason the UN was formed, the fact is the UN was formed some after WWII. The UN is not supporting the US in Iraq except for a handful of countries.

Answer 8

The UN was willing to sit back while Sadaam played games with their own weapons inspectors. Why would they do anything now? And as previously stated, they don't have their own military to do anything anyway.

Answer 9

Honestly, because the only countries that are threatened is United States and Britain.

Answer 10

The UN doesn't have a military. It is made up of a group of countries who have their own militaries, and they can use them at their own discretion. They obviously don't support a war that is based on lies.