US Presidency
1998

By ending nuclear testing, we can help to prevent the development of new and more dangerous weapons and make it more difficult for non nuclear states to build them. I am pleased to announce that four former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Generals John Shalikashvili, Colin Powell, and David Jones and Admiral William Crowe, have endorsed this treaty. And I ask the Senate to approve it this year. Together, we must confront the new hazards of chemical and biological weapons and the outlaw states, terrorists, and organized criminals seeking to acquire them. Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade and much of his nation's wealth not on providing for the Iraqi people but on developing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. The United Nations weapons inspectors have done a truly remarkable job finding and destroying more of Iraq's arsenal than was destroyed during the entire Gulf War. Now Saddam Hussein wants to stop them from completing their mission.