President George W. Bush says Saddam Hussein must be laughing at the United Nations and its resolutions.
Mr Bush said the UN "must have backbone" to hold Saddam to account over his weapons programme.
He told a Republican Party function that he [Saddam] had defied the UN for 11 years. "He must be laughing when he hears about the UN and its resolutions, and that's not good for the health of the world," Mr Bush said.
Saddam "must destroy his weapons of mass destruction and stop his lying", he said, adding "the choice is his to make".
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But he also said the UN was also facing a choice between upholding its own resolutions on Iraq or risking becoming an ineffective League of Nations.
PA