US step up pressure on Iraq

The Bush administration has stepped up pressure for a new UN Security Council disarmament resolution for Iraq and disclosed plans for moving B-2 bombers closer to Baghdad, preparing for possible war to remove President Saddam Hussein.

President George W Bush, speaking yesterday in Nashville, Tennessee, said the UN must show that it is more than an “ineffective debating society” in confronting years of Iraq’s flouting of council disarmament resolutions.