...speech to the UN, President Bush said, "The entire world now faces a test, and the United Nations as difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will...

...Hussein's regime posed a "grave and gathering danger" and throwing down the gauntlet to the assembled body: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the...faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and denning moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without...

...long-range missiles, and all related material." He then placed the onus on the United Nations to act: "Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade...Council resolutions to be honored and enforced or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will...

...uses one. We owe it to all our citizens to do everything in our power to prevent that day from coming. with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces...Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will...

...when inspectors were in his country; are to we assume that he stopped when they left? . . . Hussein has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade...the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. . . . Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant? While the...

...Council resolutions mandating Iraq's WMD disarmament or risk becoming a latter-day League of Nations. "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations," Bush declared. "Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced or cast aside without consequence?...

...Iraq. Instead, he turned the debate around and argued that it was the UN's authority that was at stake. 'Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance,' Bush said. 'All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment....

...gather." But in the meat of the speech, Bush got personal. "All the world now faces a test," he said, "and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment....Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will...

...law, Saddam's noncompliance with UN resolutions spoke volumes, as Secretary General Annan pointed out, "the conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations" (Clark 2005: 223; Roberts 2003: 113). The Iraq Invasion and International Legitimacy Even so, many...