President Bush and the United Nations On Tuesday, President Bush went before the United Nations General Assembly to deliver a defense of United States policy in Iraq. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks about the role of the U.N. with Nancy Soderberg, vice-president of the International Crisis Group and a former U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council under President Clinton, and Joshua Muravchik, a scholar specializing in the United Nations at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

President Bush and the United Nations

President Bush and the United Nations

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On Tuesday, President Bush went before the United Nations General Assembly to deliver a defense of United States policy in Iraq. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks about the role of the U.N. with Nancy Soderberg, vice-president of the International Crisis Group and a former U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council under President Clinton, and Joshua Muravchik, a scholar specializing in the United Nations at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

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