President Bush addressed the UN General Assembly on September 12, 2002. ” ‘Our greatest fear,’ Bush went on to say, ‘is that terrorists will find a shortcut to their mad ambitions when an outlaw regime supplies them with the technologies to kill on a massive scale. In one place, in one regime, we find all these dangers, in their most lethal and aggressive forms, exactly the kind of aggressive threat the United Nations was born to confront.’ He laid out an indictment of Iraq’s failure to abide by UN resolutions, daring the body to confront Baghdad. ‘We know that Saddam Hussein pursued weapons of mass murder even when inspectors were in his country,’ Bush continued. ‘Are we to assume that he stopped when they left? The history, the logic, and the facts lead to one conclusion: Saddam Hussein’s regime is a grave and gathering danger.’ And soon he came to the point: ‘My nation will work with the U.N. Security Council to meet our common challenge,’ he said. ‘If Iraq’s regime defies us again, the world must move deliberately, decisively to hold Iraq to account.’ ” Bush added, ” ‘We will work with the U.N. Security Council for the necessary resolutions…’ ”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 218