US To Bypass UN Sanctions

So what is the deal with the UN and the old "lift the sanctions" crowd? For years (nearly 12 to be exact) they kept trying to find ways to lift or circumvent the economic sanctions on Iraq, usually claiming that they were killing babies or leading to widespread poverty and suffering.

But now that the US has removed Saddam - the whole reason for the sanctions - and has begun the process of replacing him with a more representative form of government, the "lift the sanctions" crowd, which now includes France and Russia, wants to keep the sanctions in place until Iraq is declared "disarmed."

So let me get this straight. First the sanctions were dangerous as they targeted kids and the WMD were non-existent and therefore unworthy of being sanction. Now, the WMD are dangerous because they "target" the world and the sanctions are an evil necessity even though they cause suffering among the kids. So which is it already?

If our "friends" in France and Russia won't work with us in the UN, we need to just go ahead and work around them. We'd be the last on the block to circumvent the sanctions and the first to do it for the right reasons.