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Article: Former president supports efforts to disarm Saddam Hussein; urges United States to get U.N. backing

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Dateline: WASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton said Friday he favors getting United Nations backing for the use of force, if necessary, to disarm Iraq' s President Saddam Hussein.

"He's got a very dangerous (weapons) program. We need to eliminate it," Clinton said on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Interviewed from Africa where he is on tour, the former president said, "I think we ought to go to the United Nations. I think we ought to get a tough resolution which basically says we'll take Saddam Hussein up on his commitment to free and unfettered inspections."

"If he doesn't comply," Clinton said, a U.N. resolution should make ...

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