From Fox:
WASHINGTON Critics say President Bush’s seeking the blessing of the United Nations — a “paper tiger” of legendary lethargy and inaction — before moving on Iraq is a waste of time.
It’s rope-a-dope, folks. Bush will end up paying nothing but lip service to the UN. Believe it. This guy does:
Ted Galen Carpenter, a foreign policy analyst with the Cato Institute, points out that while Bush went out of his way to prove his case against Saddam in his September speech at the U.N., he expects that the administration will carry out plans to invade Iraq no matter what the international body, Saddam or Congress has to say about it.
“My guess is the U.N. Security Council will go along with what Bush has proposed,” he said. “But, I think what Bush was saying in his speech was ‘You are either with our policy and can look relevant or you can obstruct our policy and we’ll bypass you and you will look irrelevant.'”