Regulating Global Arms Sales and Cluster Munitions.
Arms Control Association Press Briefing WHEN: Friday, February 9, 2007, 9:30 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. WHERE: National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Murrow and White Rooms, Washington D.C. CONTACT: Wade Boese at (202) 463-8270 x104 for more information or to RSVP Although biological, chemical,...

Reforming the United Nations.
The latest international crisis caused by Saddam Hussein's denial to allow UN weapons inspectors access to places where possibly atomic, biological and chemical weapons were hidden was also a crisis for the United Nations. The Security Council, as the UN's principal executive organ, was unable to agree on an unequivocal...

The half-truth.
Apparently your editorial staff has anointed David Kay the "Oracle of Truth" on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction ("Un-intelligence," February 13) by artfully and selectively editing his comments to denigrate President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their administration, painting them as liars and deceivers. While Kay...

More Iraq lies revealed.
On the eve of a critical pre-war vote in Congress, the Bush administration told a group of senators "that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities," reported the December 15 Florida Today. Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)...

The disappearing WMDs.
Going into Iraq, the administration supposedly knew where the WMDs were. But not only were the WMDs not found, the), didn't exist when the war began, according to Dr. David Kay. Though something could still be found, it has become obvious that the reputed Iraqi threat was, at best,...

What to do with Saddam?
Should Saddam be tried by the UN--at a special tribunal, a la the Balkans trial of Slobodan Milosevic--or at the newly functioning International Criminal Court? Independence-minded Americans understand that creating such a precedent would dangerously empower the United Nations. Should the Iraqis establish an independent tribunal to...

High crimes: who should determine Saddam Hussein's fate?
SADDAM HUSSEIN'S capture on December 13 may have taken him off America's Most Wanted list, but the former Iraqi leader is still very much in the hot seat. Just about everyone agrees that Saddam was a brutal dictator. He ruled Iraq with an iron fist for 24...

Sex, lies and audiotape.
"Just like Nixon, this president is sweating out what papers are out there and what has to be done to keep her (Lewinsky) from talking," said the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and was a central figure in the last failed presidency. Recruited by Webster University to talk...

Eight years on....
Baghdad Iraqis took a deep breath as the nation's leadership narrowly avoided yet another possible series of military strikes by the Anglo-American team that now acts as international watchdog in the Arab world. The character of Baghdad never totally disappears even in the worst of situations. Artists...