U.N. Prepares for Meeting About Iraq, Wary of U.S. Motives
By WARREN HOGE
Published: January 18, 2004
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 17 — The United States comes to the United Nations on Monday, asking the organization that the Bush administration has kept at a deliberate distance from its Iraq stabilization plan to step in now and help rescue it.
In off-the-record comments, many here complain about being asked to validate a process from which they were excluded, and wonder if the world organization is not being manipulated by the White House for election-year political purposes.