That Pesky United Nations: Questions about Iraq

In another story which slipped by almost all news outlets, the President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, has called for an independent enquiry into human rights violations in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. He told the UN Human Rights Council a week ago:

Independent experts estimate that over one million Iraqis have lost their lives as a direct result of the illegal invasion of their country. The various UN human rights monitors have prepared report after report documenting the unending litany of violations from crimes of war, rights of children and women, social rights, collective punishment and treatment of prisoners of war and illegal detention of civilians. This must be addressed to bring an end to the scandalous present impunity.