“President Bush made the decision to take the Iraq issue through the UN Security Council before the annual UN General Assembly meeting that he addressed on September 12, 2002. …The decision by President Bush to include the UN in his solution to the Iraq problem was the defining decision that established the dynamics of the debate leading to the war six months later. By placing the issue in the UN, he accepted the risk that council members would seek primarily to contain the United States, not Saddam.”
– Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek, Page 249