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Elbaradei: U.S. Should Set Nuclear Disarm Example Tue August 26, 2003 11:52 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog called on the United States Tuesday to set an example to the rest of the world by cutting its nuclear arsenal and halting research programs. "The U.S. government demands that other nations not possess nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, it is arming itself," Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Germany's Stern weekly. Criticizing President Bush's plan for a national missile defense shield, he said: "Then a small number of privileged countries will be...

  Disarm the Police by Gary Northby Gary North I begin with an insight offered by Professor Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), who taught history to Bill Clinton at Georgetown University. He had such a profound impact on Clinton that Clinton referred to him in his 1992 nomination acceptance speech. Quigley is famous among conservatives for his book, Tragedy and Hope (1966), in which he devoted 20 pages to the connections between Wall Street banking firms and American foreign policy, which has doninated by the liberal left (pp. 950ff). But Quigley was also an expert in the history of weaponry. One...

www.4ranters.comIt seems the anti-Bush crowd has found a new way to attempt to discredit Bush and the war in Iraq. This time, it's the missing WMDs. After the swift liberation of Iraq and the worries of the peaceniks proven wrong, one would figure the anti-war crowd would finally concede. Somehow, the fact that WMDs haven't been found - yet - is supposed to prove the war as unjustified, and make Bush and Tony Blair liars. First the protestors predicted a messy quagmire of a war where thousands of lives would be lost. Massive casualties of both Iraqi civilians and American...

IRAQ: Failing To Disarm Biological Weapons First, biological weapons. We have talked frequently here about biological weapons. By way of introduction and history, I think there are just three quick points I need to make. First, you will recall that it took UNSCOM four long and frustrating years to pry, to pry an admission out of Iraq that it had biological weapons. Second, when Iraq finally admitted having these weapons in 1995, the quantities were vast. Less than a teaspoon of dry anthrax, a little bit -- about this amount. This is just about the amount of a teaspoon. Less...

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq — The leader of a prominent clan from near Saddam Hussein’s birthplace turned over scores of weapons and explosives as a show of solidarity with American forces, the first head of an area tribe to voluntarily disarm his people at the request of the Army. Sheik Al-Bo Aiesa Muzahin Ali Kareem said he turned in more than 80 AK-47 assault rifles, three mortars, three rocket propelled grenades and three cases of explosives Sunday because he now felt secure with the presence of the Army 4th Infantry Division in the area — and because it is time to move forward.</p>

WASHINGTON, May 7 — President Bush and the National Rifle Association, long regarded as staunch allies, find themselves unlikely adversaries over one of the most significant pieces of gun-control legislation in the last decade, a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons. At issue is a measure to be introduced by Senate Democrats on Thursday to continue the ban. Groundbreaking 1994 legislation outlawing the sale and possession of such firearms will expire next year unless Congress extends it, and many gun-rights groups have made it their top priority to fight it. Even some advocates of gun control say the prohibition has been...

Blix to define Iraq disarm tasks 11mar03 UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix will give the Security Council a report next week defining the remaining disarmament tasks expected of Iraq. Blix said that council members had shown "considerable interest" in the report when he met them behind closed doors for three hours today (New York time). Council Resolution 1284, which established the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) three years ago, required Blix to submit a program of work for inspectors in Iraq defining the "key remaining disarmament tasks". The report is due by March 27, but Blix said...

From the Japanese language Yomiuri News report:The Government of Japan has just announced (around 1 p.m. Eastern Time Thursday) that it will UNCONDITIONALLY STAND WITH THE UNITED STATES, and will support it's ally in the event war is brought upon Iraq, and this support is WITH OR WITHOUT any additional, new United Nations Resolution.The statement said that time has run out for Iraq to disarm, the US will be supported by Japan, and the US-Japan alliance will be in place.Japan will note in it's statement, coming up shortly, that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, has been told time...

This is based on Monty Python's "Argument Clinic" skit. If you like Python, you should like this...if not, I make no promises as to how much you're going to enjoy this... USA: (Knock) Saddam Hussein: Come in. USA: Ah, Is this the right place for disarmament? Saddam Hussein: I told you once that I've disarmed. USA: No you haven't. Saddam Hussein: I’ve already disarmed. USA: When? Saddam Hussein: Just now. USA: No you didn't. Saddam Hussein: Yes I did. USA: You didn't Saddam Hussein: I did! USA: You didn't! Saddam Hussein: I'm telling you I did! USA: You did not!!...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- France, Russia and China called Monday for Iraq to comply fully with the demands of U.N. weapons inspectors and disarm peacefully, while the United States and Britain sought support for a U.N. resolution to wage war against Baghdad. The five veto-holding powers on the Security Council are so divided over the resolution that there's no talk of compromise, just intensive lobbying by the rival camps ahead of a vote that Washington and London have said they want in mid-March. French President Jacques Chirac, whose country has led the opposition to a rush to war, said inspectors...

Blair gives Saddam 'last chance' to disarm(Filed: 25/02/2003) Saddam Hussein must provide "100 per cent" compliance with United Nations demands on disarmament if he is to avoid war, Tony Blair has told MPs.   Tony Blair, flanked by Jack Straw and Gordon Brown, addresses MPs "This time, Saddam must understand - now is the time for him to decide," the Prime Minister said in a Commons statement."Passive rather than active co-operation will not do. Co-operation on process but not on substance will not do. "Refusal to declare properly and fully what has happened to the unaccounted for weapons of...

    U.S. Says It's Deadline Time for Iraq to Disarm Feb. 23 — By Hassan Hafidh BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States warned on Sunday it was deadline time for Iraq to disarm or face war as Baghdad said it was seriously considering U.N. demands to begin destroying its al-Samoud 2 missiles by March 1. "We are reaching that point where serious consequences must flow," said Secretary of State Colin Powell, using Washington's language for war as the missiles became a major test of Iraqi compliance with the United Nations. Powell, a driving force behind a new U.S....

What if Sadaam Hussein actually reveals ALL of his WMD's and turns them over for destruction, and comes completely clean? Perhaps this is unlikely, but doesn't it expose a weakness in U.S. strategy that exists because we chose to go the disarmament route, when our real interest is in regime change?If the Iraqi's really came clean, there would be an enormous pressure to admit the inspections "worked." The U.S. would say this proved Sadaam's deceit, but wouldn't a full confession be the type of "true change of heart" that we have been saying Iraq must demonstrate?I think it was Senator...

TEHRAN, Jan 14 (AFP) - Iran supports US efforts to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction but not its aim of imposing regime change in Baghdad, a top Iranian security official said Tuesday. "If the US goal is to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, all regional countries agree," said Hassan Rohani, head of Iran's Supreme Council for National Security in talks with Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja. "But if the US wants regime change in Baghdad, it is in violation of the UN charter and all the regional countries are opposed to that," he said, quoted by...

WASHINGTON: Former US president Jimmy Carter, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, called on Friday for disarmament by the United States, which has taken the lead in urging such countries as North Korea and Iraq to destroy their weapons of mass destruction. "One of the things that the United States government has not done is to try to comply with and enforce international efforts targeted to prohibit the arsenals of biological weapons that we ourselves have," Carter said on CNN's Larry King Live programme broadcast late Friday. He also called for more stringent efforts by Washington "to reduce and enforce...

President Bush (news - web sites) says he'll try diplomacy "one more time," but he does not think Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) will disarm — even if doing so would allow the Iraqi president to remain in power. "We don't believe he's going to change," Bush said as skeptical allies debated his proposed U.N. resolution that would force Saddam to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction or face consequences, possibly military action. "However, if he were to meet all the conditions of the United Nations (news - web sites) — the conditions that I've described very clearly...

<p>WASHINGTON — In an "important speech" to the nation Monday night, President Bush explained that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses a unique threat that must be addressed now rather than later.</p> <p>"The threat comes from Iraq. It arises directly from the Iraqi regime's own actions, its history of aggression and its drive for weapons of terror," Bush said. "The threat from Iraq stands alone because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place."</p>

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Friday played down a British suggestion of a deadline for Iraqi compliance with U.N. arms inspections, demanding Iraq disarm "now" and ruling out talks. "The United States position is that the Iraqi regime needs to abide by its obligations -- there is no room for negotiations or discussion -- they need to do so and do so now," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters with the president on his August vacation. With transatlantic tensions emerging over potential U.S. military strikes to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Britain said on Thursday it...