Word: disarming
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...cleaning up a mess they suspect will only grow messier if it gets swept under the rug. Her father Bob Meyer, a retired corporate executive and a gun owner whose politics are conservative, says he can't understand the liberals and the pacifists. "They want to disarm me," he says, "but they don't want to disarm Saddam Hussein...
...Security Council last week demonstrated a gulf in conceptions of how that world might best be built. For the Americans, the British and their supporters, the reports by the U.N. weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei confirmed that Iraq had still not complied with U.N. resolutions that it disarm. "We cannot allow this process to be endlessly strung out," said Secretary of State Colin Powell. Most members of the Council, however, remain convinced that the inspectors are the best way to defang Saddam...
...ground in Afghanistan and tried to calm the Middle East, Rumsfeld was already rattling the saber at Iraq. In an Oct. 24 interview on CNN, Rumsfeld pushed the regime change line in Iraq, offering no guarantee that the U.S. would back down even if Saddam Hussein were to completely disarm and comply with all U.N. regulations...
...movement which supports policies that would continue the reign of a murderous tyrant who gasses, tortures and rapes his own people is a movement supporting a perpetual war. Instead of peace, over the course of the last decade, we allowed Saddam to manipulate the process intended to disarm him; we shamefully ignored the horrors of internal repression...
...peace with Iraq lies in the future, we must disarm Saddam not only of his weapons and chemical warfare, but also of his caustic and virulent ideology of bloody revolution. Unfortunately, taking this dictator’s cherished toys away now will not stem his ongoing pursuit of them...