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| Name: | William Hartung | |||||||||
| Title: | Director of The Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute | |||||||||
| Position: | Con to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?" | |||||||||
| Reasoning: | "The whole urgency of going into Iraq
does not really hold water. They still haven’t found these
elusive weapons of mass destruction. In my mind there is
no question that Saddam had chemical and biological
weapons, but the administration never established that
invasion was the best way to contain them. All they can
tell us now is that they are going to keep looking, which is
what the U.N. was doing before the invasion...In Iraq we
certainly had the opportunity before the war started to use
smart sanctions to build an internal opposition. It would
have taken a lot more time. It would have been more
challenging, but I think in the end it would have been less
damaging to our relationships in that region and to our
relations with European allies that we need if we are going to deal with
terrorism."
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| Education: | B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Philosophy, Columbia University | |||||||||
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