This is the type of bull**** attitude that provokes me to anger about our government when it gets ready to go to war. Might makes right and **** you if you don't like it, get beside us, or get out of the way! That Saddam Hussein was not in anyway connected to 9/11 and that he was never a threat to the United States was irrelevant to the Bush doctrine born before he was president and supported by such neocons as Chrystal, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld and a handful of others.
The beginning of the end of the international security system had actually come slightly earlier, on September 12, 2002, when President George W. Bush, to the surprise of many, brought his case against Iraq to the General Assembly and challenged the UN to take action against Baghdad for failing to disarm. "We will work with the UN Security Council for the necessary resolutions," Bush said. But he warned that he would act alone if the UN failed to cooperate.
Washington's threat was reaffirmed a month later by Congress, when it gave Bush the authority to use force against Iraq without getting approval from the UN first. The American message seemed clear: as a senior administration official put it at the time, "we don't need the Security Council."
Why the Security Council Failed - Council on Foreign Relations