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After Saddam: Assessing the Reconstruction of Iraq

Kenneth M. Pollack
January 12, 2004
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In his March/April 2002 Foreign Affairs article Next Stop Baghdad? (see Of Related Interest below), Kenneth Pollack laid out the case for why an invasion of Iraq was both necessary and possible. Nine months after the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, he provides an update on the situation there in this report released by The Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution.

Kenneth M. Pollack is director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is a former director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council and a former Persian Gulf military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the author of Arabs At War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991, and The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. The author would like to thank Charles Duelfer, Paul Hughes, Martin Indyk, Michael O'Hanlon, and James Steinberg for their comments on this paper. He would also like to thank the many Iraqis, American and British military personnel, and American officials whose insights were critical in developing his conclusions regarding the current state of the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq.

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