As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
The total elimination of nuclear weapons remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.
There is an urgent need for disarmament of all kinds, but especially nuclear disarmament.
The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.
