But one who is said not to share that view is Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, who tried unsuccessfully to build broad international support within the United Nations to disarm Saddam of weapons of mass destruction.
Reagan was able to disarm members of Congress through his one-on-one meetings and by making speeches to the public as legislative debates over a bill were taking place.
His government can't simply disarm militias accused of attacking civilians, he argues, because rebels are still holding on to their arms.
President Boris Trajkovski's plan offers rebels incentives to disarm and acceleration of constitutional reforms to improve the status of Albanians, who make up 30 percent of the population.
The world community, in the form of the UN, has expressed the opinion that Iraq should disarm and that the threat of military action is an appropriate means for exerting pressure.
On the security situation, he pushed the government of Sudan to disarm the Janjaweed and to accept an international peacekeeping force, the hybrid force of U.N. and African Union forces.
The plan calls for a ceasefire, amnesty for most rebels who disarm voluntarily and greater inclusion of ethnic Albanians in state bodies and institutions.
He voted against committing U.S. troops in the 1991 Persian Gulf War but supported the October congressional resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq in the current standoff.
Throughout the presidential campaign, Moussavi labored hard to portray his proposals on social policy and foreign affairs as an extension of the Islamic system in order to disarm conservative critics, even denying that he is a mainstream reformist candidate in the hope of winning the support of reformers and moderate conservatives.
Turkey's government announced late last year that its intelligence agency was talking to the rebels' jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan with the aim of persuading the group to disarm.
He took the precaution, before going walkabout in Kisangani, of having his presidential guard disarm all the former rebels there, though they are supposed to have been integrated into the national army.
But the government has proved capable of responding to such crises, Vandewalle said: Authorities were able to disarm the militia that took over Tripoli's airport on June 4, forced attackers out of the prime minister's office and removed protesters who had blocked access to a state-owned oil company.
Up to this point, notwithstanding a series of regional "peace" accords, it has been understood that the Nicaraguan Resistance was under no obligation to disarm or disband until after the Nicaraguan elections of February 1990.
Why it seems to get the attention that it's getting, I can't explain, but I don't think that she meant it in any way to disarm him or to make him any less of the person that he is.
Father-of-four Mr Molyneux tried to disarm Donovan after hearing shots on board the submarine but was shot in the head.
None of the paramilitary organisations have started to disarm.
You know, kind of like when Sidney Bristo (Alias) is racing down an exhaust vent to 'disarm' a satellite gizmo on a random rocket just before the launch and therefore the utter distruction of the world but the rocket they show is the Saturn V used in the Apollo program.
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And secondly, to think that another round of resolutions would have caused Saddam Hussein to disarm, disclose, is ludicrous, in my judgment.
The government of South Sudan has been conducting campaigns to disarm civilians, but this will not be effective if weapons are still easily accessible.
The newspapers made brief mention of the attack before gliding on to their daily tirade against Richard Butler, the head of Unscom, whose job it is to disarm Iraq.
After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, PMOI members agreed to disarm.
But when the battle for Abidjan was over and former President Gbagbo arrested, IB seemed reluctant to disarm, while at the same time his forces were accused of running a looting racket to smuggle stolen cars.
The critical common elements of these efforts include a high-level political commitment to disarm, national initiatives to dismantle weapons programs, and full cooperation and transparency.
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The disarming of Hezbollah in the south (it does not have to disarm completely everywhere, under the resolution) might prove to be the most difficult issue.
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The resolution, unanimously adopted by the Security Council, says the new force will operate "in a robust, highly mobile and versatile manner... to prevent expansion of all armed groups, neutralise these groups, and to disarm them".
Mr Obama wants to show he is honouring the central bargain of the treaty: that the five nuclear-weapons states would disarm in return for a vow by other countries not to seek nuclear weapons.
We're talking, of course, about the company's line of PackBot robots, who thanklessly perform reconnaissance in hostile areas and disarm explosives so humans don't have to -- sadly, not always making it out in one piece.
President Saddam denounced the work of the teams sent to monitor Iraq's compliance with demands to disarm, saying they were exceeding their mandate.
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