Word: disarmement
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...says it will not let Saddam off the hook until the dictator conclusively proves that none exist--which almost surely will never happen. As a senior official put it, "The President hasn't said he'll go to war at all costs. But he has said he'll disarm Saddam at all costs. The handicapping around here is that Saddam will be Saddam; he isn't going to suddenly change and cooperate...
...Council resolution declaring amnesty for the vast majority of Iraqi officials if they orchestrate a transition of power. The amnesty would extend to all but 100 or so of the most senior Baath Party members. "Politically, there would be nothing better for President Bush than to remove Saddam and disarm Iraq without firing a shot," a Western diplomat told TIME. "All along, Washington's hope has been that as pressure gets high enough, the people around Saddam will take matters into their own hands." - By Scott MacLeod/Riyadh Special: Saudi Arabia in TIME...
...Ivory Coast as government and rebels met in Paris. Rebel leaders want President Laurent Gbagbo to quit, claiming his 2002 election was unfair and insisting new elections are necessary. But Gbagbo said the constitution does not allow him to call early legislative elections and said the rebels should disarm...
...have reason to fear that the Saudi initiative is little more than an Arab tactic to buy Saddam more time. Some Western diplomats in the region, however, believe the initiative may dovetail with U.S. thinking. "Politically, there would be nothing better for President Bush than to remove Saddam and disarm Iraq without firing a shot," says a Western diplomat. "All along, Washington's hope has been that as pressure gets high enough, the people around Saddam will take matters into their own hands...
President Bush is "sick and tired of games and deceptions" where Iraq is concerned, but North Korea appears to be quite a different matter. Tuesday, even as the President threatened a war to disarm Iraq, he offered an olive branch to its fellow "Axis of Evil" state North Korea - unlike Iraq, a proven and proud offender in both the nuclear and the proliferation field. The president affirmed that the U.S. was offering North Korea food and energy aid if it agrees to stop its nuclear program, an approach he labeled a "bold initiative." But to Korea watchers, the offer...