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To: American Spirit who wrote (97160)	5/1/2007 5:55:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Pollack didn't work for the Bush administration: Senior Fellow Kenneth Pollack argues that to prevent Saddam from acquiring nuclear weapons, the United States has little choice to topple the regime, eradicate its weapons of mass destruction, and rebuild the country as a prosperous and stable society. Pollack lays out five options available to the United States: bolstering containment, depending on a formal deterrence policy, mounting a covert action campaign, relying on airpower and the Iraqi opposition, and launching a full-scale invasion. Arguing the first four are no longer realistic, he concludes that only a full-scale invasion involving several hundred thousand American soldiers—what he terms the “least bad” option—can deal with the growing threat. cfr.org From: The Threatening Storm Author: Kenneth M. Pollack, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy A CFR Book. Random House September 2002 Kenneth M. Pollack is Olin senior fellow and director for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1995-96 and 1999-2001, he served as director for Gulf affairs at the National Security Council, where he was the principal working-level official responsible for implementation of the U.S. policy toward Iraq. He is also the author of Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991.