After Saddam: Assessing the Reconstruction of Iraq
In this brief excerpt of his WACPA program, Pollack fields questions about Iran, Israel, and the truth about US Intelligence failures concerning Iraq's WMDs.
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Bio
Kenneth M. Pollack
Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies
Middle East; Military and security affairs; Persian Gulf Previous Position(s): Director for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations (2001-2002); Director for Persian Gulf Affairs, National Security Council (1999-2001); Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council (1995-1996); Senior Research Professor, National Defense University (1998-99, 2001); Iran-Iraq Military Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency (1988-1995)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996; B.A., Yale University, 1988.
Pollack points to the revelations of General Hussein Kamel, who had been in charge of Iraq's weapons program, after his 1995 defection as a possible excuse for why the US incorrectly believed Iraq to have WMDs. However, he doesn't mention that Kamal himself acknowledged that Iraq had destroyed its WMD program after the first Gulf War.