US ready to lead ‘coalition of willing’ against Iraq

AMERICA has all the authority it needs for an attack on Iraq, with or without a second UN resolution, US President George Bush warned last night.

As Britain and the US continued to work on a new UN resolution that would back a war, Mr Bush said America was ready to lead a “coalition of the willing.”

“We don’t need a second resolution. It’s clear this guy couldn’t care less about the first resolution.