"We always knew there would be a day of reckoning on this, that the U.N. would wind up cleaning up the mess," says a diplomat from a smaller Security Council country. "As you say it, it goes around, it comes around."

A "smaller Security Council country?" I wonder where this little smartass hails from. Guinea? Cameroon?

The eagerness with which Bush's opponents hope for failure in Iraq drips from articles like this.

Had the U.N. had its way, Saddam and his sons would have ruled Iraq for the next forty years. Of course, the U.N. rarely has met a tyranny it didn't like, or at least tolerate. Especially one pumping cash into U.N. coffers.