#disarm

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can. ↗

— Hans Blix

#assured #autumn #come #disarm #hard

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different. ↗

— Hans Blix

#ceasefire #did #different #disarmament #forced

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#demonstrate #disarming #fact #government #help

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#been #best #comes #disarmament #down

Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#biological #biological weapons #capacity #chemical #course

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dangerous #disarmed #force #government #holds

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#crucial #decision #disarm #government #inspections

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#arms #disarmed #knowledge #men #returned

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests. ↗

— Susan Rice

#elimination #eventual #interests #itself #manifestly

The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council. ↗

— Javier Solana

#council #disarmament #eu #european #european union