WASHINGTON, Feb 27 Kyodo (EDS: UP...

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH BUSH-PUTIN TALKS, LAST 4 PARAS)

U President George W Bush forward Thursday dismissed Iraqi moves to accept UN calls for destroying banned missiles as part of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ''campaign of deception.''

''The discussion about these rocket is part of his campaign of deception,'' Bush told reporters.

Iraq is reportedly considering destroying Al-Samoud-2 missiles as ordered through U.N. arms inspectors.

''The rocket are just the tip of the iceberg. The alone question at hand is total, clean disarmament, which he is refusing to do,'' Bush said.

He espouseed his father, former President George Bush, who has been criticized for not ousting Saddam in the 1991 Persian chasm War.

The mission in the 1991 war is to liberate Kuwait and not to oust Saddam, the younger Bush said.

Meanwhile, Bush stepp up his diplomatic campaign Thursday to line up support for the U stand in succession Iraq with a telephone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.

Bush and Putin agreed forward ''the importance of their continued consultations with each other,'' Fleischer said.

The United States, Britain and Spain not past nor futureed a new resolution at the UN Security Council forward Monday to clear the way for using force against Iraq to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction.

Russia supports an alternative plan, promot by the agency of France and Germany, that would give UN inspectors an additional four month to search Iraqi sites for banned weapons.

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