Despite recent conciliatory-sounding noises from the refuseniks, Russia's Vladimir Putin insisted to Britain's Tony Blair this week that the sanctions cannot be lifted until the fate of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction indeed, their very existence has been clarified.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood firm Wednesday on his government's use of intelligence information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, saying he had "no doubt at all" of its accuracy.
If true, this arrangement would infinitely compound the inspectors' difficulties in discovering the whereabouts of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Another dossier purporting to show evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, published in February, turned out to have been partly plagiarised from a graduate student's thesis.
Ahead of Wednesday evening's broadcast, Mr Blair was challenged about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction by Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy in prime minister's questions.
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The gravity of this moment is matched by the gravity of the threat that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction pose to the world.
From the 1991 Gulf War until the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs were a top issue on the international agenda.
While some claim this step would legitimate and facilitate redress of the danger posed by Saddam's weapons of mass destruction -- as one put it "The road to Baghdad is through New York" -- the reality is very different: The road to the Security Council is a dead end, and is favored by many precisely for that reason.
Far from clearing the way for military action to liberate the people of Iraq and finally ending Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program, Colin Powell has seriously impeded these initiatives.
If our motive were cold cash, we would instead downplay the Iraqi regime's weapons of mass destruction and pander to Saddam in hopes of winning contracts for U.S. companies.
Sir John Chilcot, 70, is a former permanent under-secretary of state at the Northern Ireland Office and has been chairman since 2001 of the Police Foundation and sat on the Butler Inquiry into the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
He claimed, wrongly, that the State Department Bureau's of Intelligence and Research (INR) had, under his leadership, been the only intelligence agency to assess correctly the actual pre-invasion status of Saddam Hussein's various weapons of mass destruction programs.
There are persistent reports that Syria is hiding Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Aziz also rejected the U.S. assertion that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are a threat to neighboring countries.
"Had we failed to act, the dictator's weapons of mass destruction programs would continue to this day, " Bush declared.
"Had we failed to act, the dictator's weapons of mass destruction programs would continue to this day, " the president said.
How tall an order that could be was evident in the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
The threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction was used by Blair to get the support of parliament for military action.
As the post-war situation deteriorated, and the pre-war intelligence Chalabi supplied about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction did not pan out, the relationship soured.
Kay is putting together a case for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and the administration will be patient in waiting for it, Rice said.
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Washington is concerned above all with Pyongyang's weapons of mass destruction.
Over the weekend former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, released a report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
Ending its counterfeiting and other criminal activity would sever a key subsidy for North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program and force North Korea into international norms.
The CIA's analysts tried to hedge their case for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction with caveats, but were repeatedly told by the Bush administration to strengthen their arguments.
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction could be found, removed, destroyed.
Meanwhile, Mr Blair told UK ambassadors in a speech on Tuesday that any weakness tackling the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction would be rued in the future.
The claim, contained in the government's dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, has become the chief test of whether ministers "duped" the British public over the need for war.
The U.S.-Libyan relationship has been steadily improving since Gadhafi's promise in December to dismantle the country's weapons of mass destruction, eliminate its longer-range missile programs and end its cooperation with terrorists.
Critics of George W. Bush harshly chastised him for allegedly misleading the American people about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in order to get us into a needless and unjustified war.
Mr. El Baradei made a public fuss last week about one British-U.S. claim that turns out to have been false, but which was in any case peripheral to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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