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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We can't work that way...We'll be talking about getting access in a way which shows respect for Iraqi security.
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We'll need to do the whole spectrum of our work. Documents are part of that, ... We also need to do our inspections, and they're off and running again. It will be a little while yet before we have the whole spectrum of our work done.
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In light of this experience, that is, the absence of full cooperation by Iraq, it must regrettably be recorded again that the commission is not able to conduct the substantive disarmament work mandated to it by the Security Council and, thus, to give the council the assurances it requires with respect to Iraq's prohibited weapons programs.
continuing government intention iraq prospect work
If there was no prospect of this, the government of Iraq had no intention of continuing to work with the (U.N. Special) Commission.
extend illegal iraqi last missile thrown work
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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But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.
closer
I think we're getting hot, ... I think we were getting closer and closer.
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I think there is a good basis for conversation between the two sides aimed at ironing out those difficulties and seeing that we don't get into crisis again.
cooperation good iraqi spirit
I think I can feel a new spirit and good cooperation from the Iraqi side.
brought conformity essential iraq
It is essential that Iraq is brought into conformity with the law.
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Like the Security Council, I take at face value their promise to offer full cooperation.
answer missile national proposal question rogue states wrong
The proposal for national missile defense, as articulated now, is the wrong answer to the right question. The right question is: what do we do about rogue states like Saddam's Iraq?
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The only reason it's taken so long, ... is that from day one, Iraq dragged its feet, sought to conceal and obfuscate and keep us away from the things we have the legal right to find.
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We've got a professional job to do; we do it on the basis of evidence. You really want that light at the end of the tunnel to get larger, to get out of sanctions? There is only one way down that tunnel and that is on the track of disarmament.