The Iraqis don't particularly want the UN to manage their money or their security IT IS not just the Americans who question the role of the United Nations in Iraq. The UN questions it itself�and so do the Iraqis. Since May, the World Food Programme has shipped the equivalent of a 25-tonne truck of wheat every minute of every day. On the walls of the Baghdad Convention Centre, home to both the American army's information centre and the American consul, hangs a UN tender for the supply of 841 square metres of glass, part of its emergency assistance programme to Iraq. But the UN's job, say many of its staffers, is to help the world's most vulnerable, not prop up America's occupation of Iraq. The Economist