-Caveat Lector- MY WAR ON THE WORLD http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12585172 &method=full&siteid=50143 By James Hardy, Political Editor
WILD-EYED Tony Blair warned yesterday that he was ready to wage war on the world. The Prime Minister told jeering Labour MPs his next target after Iraq was North Korea and the fight would go on until the world was a safer place. Anti-war MPs heckled Mr Blair during Commons question time as he desperately tried to justify military action on Saddam Hussein. They shouted "who's next?" and "when do we stop?" in one of the most open shows of defiance since the crisis erupted. A finger-jabbing Mr Blair turned on them: "After we deal with Iraq we do, yes, through the United Nations have to confront North Korea about its weapons programme. "We have to confront those companies and individuals trading in weapons of mass destruction. "We stop when the threat to our security is properly and fully dealt with." Labour MPs are growing increasingly restless about the full- scale rush to war. Left-winger Lynne Jones accused the PM of only identifying Iraq as a threat after George Bush grouped it with Iran and Kim Jong Il's regime in North Korea as an "axis of evil". The Premier snapped: "Precisely because he was a threat there have been thousands of British forces down in the Gulf the whole time flying over the no-fly zones. "Precisely because he was a threat, we have had to impose a sanctions regime on Iraq. "Way before the axis of evil speech, at the very first meeting I had with President Bush back in February 2001 I said that weapons of mass destruction is an issue and we have to confront them." Cabinet minister Clare Short renewed her warning that military action must have full UN backing. "We should all be clear that we unite behind the UN, and it's invincibly strong this time, and that Saddam Hussein knows that we're not going away and he can't push the inspectors back and stop them operating like he did before," she said on BBC radio. "And then we can minimise the risks of war, but we have to be willing, if necessary, to take some military action to back up the authority of the UN. "We should deal with it in a way that minimises any risk of further suffering to the people of Iraq." The Commons bust-up followed a day of Government confusion over alleged links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. President Bush said in his State of the Union speech that intelligence reports had shown extensive co-operation between the two. Downing Street yesterday initially claimed Iraq was "sheltering" al-Qaeda operatives. But at Question Time, the PM appeared to row back. He said: "We do know of links between al-Qaeda and Iraq. We cannot be sure of the exact extent of those links." The Foreign Office added: "It would be hard to imagine that this was happening without the knowledge and acquiescence of the regime." Top Forwarded for your information. 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