FT.com / Bush returns to UN with defiance: "Yet this year Mr Bush shows no signs of changing his defiant tune. The US president will remind the UN that the Security Council threatened 'serious consequences' if Iraq failed to comply with its international commitments and that, when the UN failed to enforce those consequences, the US took on the task.

Mr Bush said in an interview with Fox News, due to be aired on Monday night, that he would tell the UN on Tuesday that he 'made the right decision and the others that joined us made the right decision' in waging war in Iraq. Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, previewed the speech on Monday, emphasising how much the world has improved now that a 'brutal dictator' has been removed from power."

Now there's Bubba Condi in action, synchro with Bubba Jr. Bush. Let's see: Bush praises the UN in 2002, but then goes the unilateral (Aznar+Blair do not equal Spain+UK) don't-submit-the-resolution route, kills thousands of Iraqis, litters the cities and countryside with cluster bombs and uranium dust, picks up the bad habit of shooting civilians whenever things get a little rough, has yet to restore order/economy/jobs, looks at selling off Iraqi industry to foreigners and then Bubba Condi comes along to say "gee, don't we feel better now?"

The Bubba Bush administration has made a shambles of international order and Kofi Annan is pointing this out with vigour and reserve at the same time.