The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

priority issues in disarmament, in particular as regards proscribed weapons. This reflected the Commission’s understanding of th ...

whether or not the current assessment of the quantity of special warheads identified amongst the remnants excavated, accounts fo ...

session of the Army in 1991. No remnants which could prove such destruction, have been recovered. The Commission has not been ab ...

confidence in accepting Iraq’s other declarations on losses of chemical weapons which it has not been possible to verify. R–400 ...

Commission stated that with Iraq’s failure to account for the use of these items and materials for legitimate purposes, the only ...

another important point along this road. Some people insist that President George W. Bush launched the 2003 invasion to retaliat ...

threat the United Nations was born to confront.” Bush challenged the Security Coun- cil to take stronger action against Iraq tha ...

December 7—one day ahead of a deadline set by the Security Council—Iraq handed boxes of documents to them. Iraqi officials said ...

its numerous resolutions requiring Iraq to relinquish weapons of mass destruction; a speech by Bush, delivered in Cincinnati, Oh ...

He has proven instead only his contempt for the United Nations, and for all his pledges. By breaking every pledge—by his decepti ...

Today, Iraq continues to withhold important information about its nuclear pro- gram—weapons design, procurement logs, experiment ...

The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a d ...

resolutions. But the purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Secu- rity Council resolutions will be enforced—th ...

ago, as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi regime was required to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, t ...

more than forty villages in his own country. These actions killed or injured at least 20,000 people, more than six times the num ...

Many people have asked how close Saddam Hussein is to developing a nuclear weapon. Well, we don’t know exactly, and that’s the p ...

to find where they were going next; they forged documents, destroyed evidence, and developed mobile weapons facilities to keep a ...

I hope this will not require military action, but it may. And military conflict could be difficult. An Iraqi regime faced with i ...

Later this week, the United States Congress will vote on this matter. I have asked Congress to authorize the use of America’s mi ...

Recallingthat its resolution 678 (1990) authorized Member States to use all nec- essary means to uphold and implement its resolu ...