What difference reality makes
This Year, Bush Takes a Different Tone With the U.N.
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 15, 2005; Page A08
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 14 -- Three years ago, making the case for confronting Iraq, President Bush said the United Nations would sink into irrelevancy if it failed to act at a "difficult and defining moment." But, addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, the president struck a strikingly different tone, praising the "vital work and great ideals of this institution" and its efforts to take the "first steps" toward managerial and structural reforms.