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Article: Bush seeks U.N. backing on Iraq, but that may be moot.(Chicago Tribune)
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- October 11, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ With Congress lined up solidly behind him, President Bush will now try to close an elusive deal with the United Nations on the terms of a final confrontation with Saddam Hussein. But in many ways, the White House has already rendered the U.N. moot.
For a month now _ ever since the president's powerful Sept. 12 challenge to the U.N. to enforce its writ against Hussein's defiance or consign itself to irrelevancy _ the Security Council has been haggling over the form and substance of a new resolution requiring Iraq to surrender its weapons of mass destruction.
Even as the diplomats in New York work the issue, however, the Bush administration ...