...commemorating the victims of the World Trade Center attacks, President Bush addressed the UN General Assembly: "All the world now faces a test and the United Nations...to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?"1...

...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...to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?"...

..."grave and gathering danger" and throwing down the gauntlet to the assembled body: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of 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...

...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...

...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....to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?"...

...our deliberations would be more than talk, and our resolutions would be more than wishes," Bush said. "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 it be irrelevant?"56...

...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...