Word: onus
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...That's why a declaration deemed false by the U.S. and Britain won't be taken as a "trigger" for war, although it will help make an incontrovertible case for invasion if inspectors turn up evidence of Iraq lying. Although the Bush administration insists that the onus is on Iraq to prove that it has disarmed, once Iraq has made its declaration the onus will fall onto the U.S. and Britain to prove Baghdad is lying by pointing arms inspectors to evidence that would confirm Washington's charges...
...This is our job,” he says. Using an anti-plagiarism service “would be like sub-contracting your grading to a grading company. I think it’s our onus as faculty to...determine whether or not it’s actually genuine work...
...Washington hawks don't buy that reasoning. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday emphasized the Administration talking point of the week - that the onus is on Saddam to show he is meeting his disarmament obligations rather than on the inspectors to find proof that he isn't. Rumsfeld warned that inspectors might well never turn up any sign of the programs Washington insists Iraq continues to conceal. But if even such crucial allies as Turkey are insisting on UN endorsement of an attack, then plainly the consensus on the Security Council cannot be dismissed as easily as the Defense Secretary...
...with Saddam, in large part because people here think George W. Bush, who some call the "President of Texas," will go off on his own regardless of international opinion - including Blair's. With this document, as with his other recent public statements, Blair is laboring to shift the onus from Bush to Saddam: how can anyone justify his record of contempt for international law? And if you can't justify it, can you just sit by and let it continue? Because hostilities aren't imminent, he isn't expected to have major trouble with restive Labor backbenchers in a vote...
...efforts to build a coalition for war on the basis of Iraq's continued defiance of UN disarmament resolutions. War-wary allies in Europe and the Arab world had moved closer to the U.S. position following President Bush's UN speech a week ago in which he shifted the onus for avoiding war onto Baghdad by demanding that Saddam be forced to comply with UN resolutions he has routinely defied over the past decade. The administration may have expected Saddam to eventually cave in on the inspection issue, but not this quickly. If Baghdad had, as many expected, hedged...