BRITISH PRESS REVIEW.

(From ONASA News Agency)

SARAJEVO, March 1 (ONASA) - The Independent says if Saddam Hussein has even the slimmest chance of avoiding war he must start dismantling his outlawed al-Samoud missiles, BBC reported. What happens on Saturday will decide the difference between the possibility of peace and the certainty of war, it says. The Daily Telegraph followed Mr Blair to Spain where he met Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. Blair brushed aside Iraq's pledge to destroy its missiles as just a game and typical of the Iraqi leader's slippery tactics over 12 years. The Daily Mail, reviewing the prime minister's attack on appeasement during Friday's speech to Labor activists in Wales, said it evoked Churchillian tones. His reference to Neville Chamberlain's efforts to pacify Adolf Hitler is seen by The Times as a direct attack on appeasing Saddam Hussein. In an interview in The Guardian, the prime minister says he is ready for history to be his judge. Asked about the image of him being President Bush's poodle, Blair says it is the reverse. He insists he was the one - on their first meeting - to raise the issue of weapons of mass destruction. If it does to come to a war, the Daily Star is convinced it will be a pushover. It reports that more than half of Iraq's armored vehicles have broken down and when the fighting starts, thousands of Iraqi soldiers will surrender as the first shots are fired. It claims they have been preparing for war by making white flags. The Financial Times reveals the ...