UN makes Iraq colony of the Americans and British.

The utterly undemocratic UN succumbed to American and British pressure and gave them virtually free reign to do whatever they want in Iraq for the foreseeable future. If I understand the terms of the resolution, they have the right to occupy it until the Security Council votes otherwise. So, given that the US and the UK have vetoes on the Security Council, that means effectively forever, or until they've made enough money, whichever comes first.

I'm a strong internationalist, consider myself a world citizen and have always supported the UN. But it's time it became a democratic institution. As long as the US, the UK, France, Russia and China have vetoes, it is nothing more than a tool of these powers. And that is unacceptable, as well as dangerous.

In fact it's time that all of these international organizations, the WTO, World Bank, IMF, WHO and so on, all become democratic. And by "democratic" I mean that the entire world gets to vote, on a one-person, one-vote basis. Until that happens they have to be considered nothing more than agencies representing private and national interests, not public and global ones.

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