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Condoleezza Rice, Ph.D.
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U.S. Secretary of State
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to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?"
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"Saddam Hussein was a threat, yes, because he was trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. And, yes, we thought that he was -- that he had stockpiles, which he did not have...
But it wasn't just weapons of mass destruction. He was also a place -- his territory was a place where terrorists were welcomed, where he paid suicide bombers to bomb Israel, where he had used Scuds against Israel in the past, and so we knew what his intentions were in the region, where he had attacked his neighbors before and, in fact, tried to annex Kuwait, where we'd gone to war against him twice in the past.
It was the total picture, Senator, not just weapons of mass destruction, that caused us to decide that post-September 11th, it was finally time to deal with Saddam Hussein."
Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1/19/05
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Experts
PhD's, JD's (lawyers), Judges, Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Consulate Generals, heads of government, Cabinet-level positions, military generals/admirals, members of legislative bodies with significant involvement in, or related to, the U.S.- Iraq conflict.
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| Involvement: |
- 2005-present - U.S. Secretary of State
- 2001-2005 - Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor)
- 1997 - Member, Federal Advisory Committee on Gender-Integrated Training in the Military
- 1993-2000 - Provost, Chief Budget and Academic Officer, Stanford University
- 1993-2000 - Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
- 1989-1991 - Director/Senior Director, Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council
- 1989-1991 - Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
- 1987-1993 - Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
- 1986 - Special Assistant to the Director of the Joints Chiefs of Staff
- 1981-1989 - Assistant Director, Arms Control Program
- 1981-1987 - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
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| Education: |
- Ph.D., Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1981
- M.A., Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1975
- B.A., Political Science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, University of Denver, 1974
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Affiliations/
Honors:
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- Senior Fellow, Institute for International Studies
- International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow (by courtesy), Hoover Institution
- Member, Center for International Security and Arms Control
- Founding Boardmember, Center for a New Generation
- Former Boardmember, Chevron Corporation
- Former Boardmember, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Former Boardmember, University of Notre Dame
- Former Boardmember, International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan
- Other past boardmembership: Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the RAND Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED
Awards received:
- School of Humanities and Science Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 1993
- Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University, 1984
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Select Publications:
- "U.S., World Clearly Are Safer," USA Today, 7/16/04
- Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (with co-author Philip D. Zelikow), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997
- The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army 1948-1983: Uncertain Allegiance, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984
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