Richard Butler
Richard Butler
English singer who was the lead musician for the Psychedelic Furs, as well as the founder and member of the band Love Spit Love.
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 June 1957
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He mentioned in particular his wish for me to hear their report on chemical and biological weapons. That seemed to me to be a positive development and I took it in good spirit.
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And what's different? We'll have some diplomatic observers with us to make sure that both sides -- not just UNSCOM, but Iraq, too -- behave in an appropriate manner in these special sites,
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Iraq's conduct ensured that no progress was able to be made in either the fields of disarmament or accounting for Iraq's prohibited weapons program.
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Biology is a black hole. Biological agents are an area where they have never told us the truth.
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I've said in public that it's simply untrue.
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As we were being thrown out, one of the last conversations I had with them (the Iraqi officials) was about their illegal work to extend their missile program,
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Quite frankly it would be utterly foolish not to think not to assume, absent us, that they are doing it again,
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Given the last 22 months, given today's circumstances of crumbling sanctions, given the fact that he is back in the arms business, Mister Chairman, it follows as the night follows the day for me to say what I am saying: These sanctions are not working.
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I quite frankly don't think I'll be seeking an extension.
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If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap.
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No member of the council, including the United States, has purported to give me instructions. They all recognize that their job is policy, my job is operation.
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They dusted off a proposal that was three and a half years old that they put to me in 1998, which was a joke. They were told then it was a joke, and they're doing it again. I'm sorry. This is not serious.
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They've turned the lights off and it's pretty hard to take pictures when you've got no lights, ... In other places, they've simply obstructed the cameras, put bags over the lenses. It looks a little bit like, 'the cat's away, the video mice will play.'
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If there was no prospect of this, the government of Iraq had no intention of continuing to work with the (U.N. Special) Commission.