Word: disarmed
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...language stronger than ever, that although he would prefer clear U.N. backing for a war in Iraq--and he will make that point at Camp David--Britain's troops will fight alongside their American counterparts if Washington judges that Saddam Hussein is not making a good-faith effort to disarm Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Britons are used to his trimming and spinning on domestic issues; but as a senior British official said admiringly, on Iraq he has never wavered. "He is convinced," said another official, "that if we don't tackle weapons of mass destruction...
...tour of mostly business audiences in the Midwest and on the West Coast in December. "They want a smoking gun. It doesn't make a difference when I point out that we have a smoking forest, that it's clear Saddam has these weapons and doesn't want to disarm...
...language stronger than ever, that although he would prefer clear U.N. backing for a war in Iraq - and he will make that point at Camp David - Britain's troops will fight alongside their American counterparts if Washington judges that Saddam Hussein is not making a good-faith effort to disarm Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Britons are used to his trimming and spinning on domestic issues; but as a senior British official said admiringly, on Iraq he has never wavered. "He is convinced," said another official, "that if we don't tackle weapons of mass destruction...
...Both the British and the Americans are giving the inspectors intelligence leads (the British claim responsibility for the discovery of the chemical warheads) and believe that the combination of Iraqi intransigence and rigorous, informed inspections will soon convince international opinion that only military force will compel Saddam Hussein to disarm. --By Massimo Calabresi, Meenakshi Ganguly, J.F.O. McAllister and Marguerite Michaels
...needed a lot more time. Still, the U.S. looks unlikely to call a halt to inspections and move to military action in the wake of Blix's report. President Bush will likely use his State of the Union address Tuesday to amplify his argument that Saddam has failed to disarm and therefore made military action all but inevitable, but he is unlikely to use the speech as a platform for declaring...