In the administration's view, new resolutions at the United Nations should include language authorizing any member nations -- including, of course, the United States, with or without its allies -- to enforce disarmament if Iraq does not quickly comply.
President Bush said that it was "highly doubtful" that Saddam Hussein would meet demands to disarm, while American officials said they would seek to write into any new United Nations resolution an authorization for the United States to enforce disarmament if Iraq did not comply.
PARIS — Secretary of State John Kerry and the foreign ministers of France and Britain said on Monday that they would not tolerate delays in dismantling Syria's chemical weapons and would press ahead with a strong resolution in the United Nations Security Council to enforce the disarmament plan.
You could argue that witnesses would not bother telling the Butler review, of which Chilcot was a member, that the aim of government policy was "to enforce Iraqi disarmament", given that the review had access to a mass of documents (since leaked) showing that this cover story was cynically bolted on to a plan to support the US in its desire for regime change.
While he will urge the organization to act "to preserve its own credibility," in the words of a senior administration official, Mr. Bush is also expected to make clear that if necessary he and Mr. Blair will take whatever steps are necessary to fully enforce that disarmament if the United Nations fails to act.
But, Mr. Bush has made clear in his public statements in Washington, and yesterday in Kentucky and Indiana, that if the international community failed to respond he would have the United States take whatever steps he determined were necessary to enforce that disarmament agreement and change the leadership of Iraqi.
They warned the SNP policy of removing Trident from the Clyde could result in enforced nuclear disarmament for the rest of the UK.
The next year the Cape authorities doubled the already controversial hut tax on the Sotho and tried to enforce the 1879 Disarmament Act, ordering the Sotho to disarm and hand in their guns.
Paris and Berlin, along with their fellow travelers in Moscow and Beijing, are likely to seize on Mr. Blix's report to insist on delaying any military operation to enforce Iraq's disarmament.
For Mr. Bush, it was especially useful to call Mr. Powell out of his foxhole to underscore the lengths to which this president has gone to give the United Nations a chance to live up to its mandate to enforce its many disarmament resolutions on Iraq.
The officials said that Russia, Syria's key military backer in the conflict, bore some of the blame for failing enforce a 2013 disarmament deal.
