Of course. The Iraq affair demonstrates America's intentions towards the UN. Destroy it either by making it an instrument of US policy or destroy it by defying its authority. The situation in Iraq has become "much worse" than a civil war, the outgoing United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has told the BBC. Mr Annan, who leaves office after 10 years on 31 December, said life for the average Iraqi was now worse than under the regime of Saddam Hussein. ... He admitted that the failure to prevent the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a major blow to the UN, one from which the organisation is only beginning to recover. http://tinyurl.com/ymvtt8