Sherry and Melvin

President George W. Bush urged the United Nations on Thursday to force Iraq to disarm and said action was inevitable if Baghdad failed to do so.

In a dramatic day at the U.N. General Assembly, Secretary-General Kofi Annan questioned Bush's right to go to war against Iraq and said multilateral action was the only way to enforce U.N. resolutions.

Iraq, which has refused to allow the return of U.N. arms inspectors who left in 1998 after years of strife with President Saddam Hussein's government, called Bush's speech a litany of lies motivated by ''revenge, oil, personal ambitions and the security of Israel.''

Bush, who has condemned Iraq as a member of an ''axis of evil'' and has...