No Replacement For Displacement

I just realized something while watching the news. Tom Daschle, Trent Lot, Denny Hastert, and Richard Gephardt are probably 4 of the 8 most influential people on the planet, outside of the President, and the rest of Congress are probably 535 of the 700 most influential people on the planet. For all the talk of the UN, and sanctions, and the Indy's bleating that we poor Yanks will have to wait a year while inspections get underway, the congressional authorization of force will have a stronger international effect than anything the UNSC does. For all the blathering of Kofi Annan, and assorted EUroleftist ranting, the UN will have nowhere near the influence on the conduct of the war as these four people, and their 531 brethren. The congressional resolution will sail through in a week, and when it does, the UN is going to look like a completely failed organization if they don't authorize a resolution that isn't functionally identical in wording. In any event, the sound you hear in the next two weeks or so will be the collective gasp of dozens of EUroleftist journalists and minor government functionaries as they watch a war resolution sail through congress with the requisite 2/3rds votes that would qualify it as being a DoW.