Bush tells UN to get tough on Iraq or risk becoming a 'debating society'

US PRESIDENT George Bush yesterday pressed the UN Security Council to approve a tough new resolution against Iraq, saying the council would otherwise look like "nothing but a debating society".

Bush kept up the pressure on the United Nations, stating again the council must act or the United States will. Iraq declared American attempts for a new resolution "have bad intentions and wicked aims" and the United Nations should not be a platform for "launching aggression" against Baghdad.

But Bush, to raucous cheers from a boisterous crowd in an Army National Guard hangar, declared: "We will not allow the world's worst leaders to threaten us with the world's worst weapons."