(Washington Post) Kenneth Pollack (former National Security Council Persian Gulf Director and CIA Analyst) - I spent the better part of the last 11 years trying to make containment of Iraq work and believed it was the best policy for the United States and still believe that if we had done things differently, and certainly if our allies had, containment might have worked as a policy into the future. But I have grudgingly come to the conclusion in the last few years that we have no alternative but to remove Saddam from power before he acquires nuclear weapons, and the only way to make sure we do so and with the minimum damage and loss of life is a full scale invasion employing all of our conventional military capabilities.
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