Whether that can really make the difference in disarming Iraq is something he would evidently prefer council members to decide for themselves.
In the parliamentary debate, British government spokesmen insisted on the importance of a UN mandate for military action, and on the narrow goal of disarming Iraq.
If America can get the Security Council on its side, then it stands a better chance of building broader international support for Mr Bush's intention of disarming Iraq.
In an address yesterday to the National Press Club in Canberra, Australian Prime Minister John Howard laid out the case for disarming Iraq despite opposition from some Western nations.
"Both of them believe that their position is highly reasonable and promising and that a peaceful solution is possible by reinforcing the work of the inspectors in disarming Iraq, " said German Government spokesman Thomas Steg.
They are clearly cognizant of one unalterable fact: Every bit of information that tips off Saddam about what we know of his prohibited activities and how we know it will greatly complicate the job of any U.S.-led coalition charged with disarming Iraq the old-fashioned way via military means.
They are clearly cognizant of one unalterable fact: Every bit of information that tips off Saddam about what we know of his prohibited activities and how we know it will greatly complicate the job of any U.S.-led coalition charged with disarming Iraq the old-fashioned way -- via military means.
Or, as seems increasingly likely, is the President going to be stuck inextricably to the tar baby of renewed UN inspections, inspections that will surely prove incompatible with the goal of disarming Iraq, since the only prospect for accomplishing that end is to remove Saddam and his ruling clique from power?
That would make the peaceable disarming of Iraq an even more remote possibility than it now appears.
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On the other hand, chemical or biological arms may be used against America's allies in the region -- or even the United States, itself -- whether or not the President orders the disarming of Iraq in the only way likely to prove effective, i.e.
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Disarming the capitalist dictatorship is accomplished by calling for MUTINY in all U.S. armed forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, etc. as in Vietnam, the real reason and the ONLY reason the Vietnam War ended in 1975!
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And he argued that Iraq had failed to demonstrate to the weapons inspectors and to other countries that it had any intention of disarming.
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