Leaning a little left of neutral   After reading just the second paragraph regarding the UN I have to say the facts are clearly one sided  Isnt it true that the Oil for Food scandal wouldhas clearly influenced the members on the Security Council  That the Members on the Security Council had very large economic interests in Iraq and would loose them if there was a war and now the clearly vocal SG of the UN now being implicated in influence in the Oil for Food scandal  These facts would clearly give the reader a better understanding of a possible reason why the UN acted the way it did  The last and final resolution did warn Iraq of possible military solutions if it did not comply    One could clearly argue whether this is relevant or not but just declaring that the Security Council was against the war without the above mentioned is avoiding reality    I stand corrected this whole passage leaves out many important facts  It also includes many unsubstantiated facts such as Iraqi civilian deaths that just go beyond the pale  This passage clearly needs a complete top to bottom rewrite  i agree that the part you cite isnt neutral but i strongly disagree with the characterization of its leaning as left anyway it looks like youre new here at wikipedia thats no reason you cant jump in and be bold go to it and good luck youll need it heh heh    Jun  UTC  I agree with you completelly Im glad you mentioned this on the talk page ahead of time as somebody who does lean a little left of center would certainly change your edits This article needs to be rewritten   Well pick out a chunk that is the worst example of the POV youre objecting to and either fix it or if you want to increase the odds that it will survive for a while hammer out a suggested alternative here on the talk page     Absence of declaration of war police action This article is titled  invasion of Iraq which is perfectly fine and NPOV but to claim in the opening paragraph that it is a war is to miss the essential fact that there was and has been no such declaration of war If it is a war then it is illegal however if it is considered as a police action falling within the executive authority then it may be given some legitimacy under emergency powers Even so insofar as we would commonly refer to the invasion as a war like the Korean War the Vietnam War etc this was a preventive war not a preemptive war and this should also be stated    some quick points the police action article is weak and basically serves as a setup for somebody to call any undeclared war a police action thats euphemistic governmentspeak whether a war is declared has no bearing on whether its a war thats simple logic if the distinction is important to you at the article outset then simply call it what you appear to be claiming an undeclared war however then the problem is that it was declared but by the president and informally not by congress in any fashion while undeclared war is a stretch its not nearly as much as police action further the iraq war does not meet a rough criterion local of the wikilinked police action article a war against an entire country is not local police action is a government term invented by presidential administrations and sycophants to pretend they hadnt violated the US constitution  calling this a preventive war is about as POV as it gets if you think preemptive is POV then please remove that rather than calling it something even more POV and id caution against using phrases like more precisely as in the edits i reverted that phrase in both cases was incorrect    Since the president doesnt have constitutional authority to declare war he cannot have declared it unless illegally So you are saying it would be more NPOV to call this an illegal war than to call it a police action I agree that undeclared war doesnt make sense However in common usage it is a war and most people wont immediately understand unless we say it is more precisely a police action That is not POV that is just clarification  straw man alert and most people wont immediately understand what no idea where you get the need to bring in this term police action its nothing but a term that claims wasnt no war holmes while bodies are lying everywhere UserSalty