'Disarm Iraq or US will go it alone' warns Bush

US president George Bush warned the UN General Assembly yesterday that America would go to war against Iraq unless the UN forced Saddam Hussein to disarm.

Bush said the Iraqi President has engaged in a "decade of defiance" of post-Gulf War demands from the United Nations by developing weapons of mass destruction.

"Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave and gathering danger," he told a General Assembly that included many sceptical member nations. President Bush challenged the world body to act swiftly on a new Iraq resolution or face the prospect of possible unilateral action by the United States.