This just in from the Department of the Lone Rangers...

Major U.S. Allies Reject Annan Iraq Claim

LONDON (AP) -- U.S. allies Britain and Australia on Thursday rejected a claim by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the war in Iraq was "illegal" because Washington and its coalition partners never got Security Council backing for the invasion.

Wait a second. Allies? I thought we went into Iraq totally alone. No international coalition. No multilateralism. President Bush acted unilaterally. We "went it alone".

Right?

France, Germany, Russia and China fought the proposed invasion of Iraq and ouster of Saddam Hussein because they were in business with him. In voilation of UN sanctions mind you. So them balking makes sense. But the UN? It couldn't be that Kofi was getting some of that "oil for food" money the UN was raking in, could it?

Nah.[/sarcasm]