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Past Event
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Ten years after the United States and its allies forced Iraqi troops to withdraw from Kuwait, Saddam Hussein remains in power — and an international threat — despite UN inspections, military punishment, and continued economic sanctions. One of the first priorities of President George W. Bush’s administration will be to review America’s policy toward Saddam.
On the tenth anniversary of Iraq’s humiliation in the Gulf War, a panel of Brookings foreign policy experts will examine what has occurred in the past decade and what is likely to happen in the future in light of a new American president taking office, other nations increasingly ignoring the sanctions, concerns that Iraq is again seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and the changing dynamics of the Middle East.
Among the issues the Brookings experts will address are:
Elaine Kamarck
January 28, 2025
Ryan Hass, Jude Blanchette
January 7, 2025
Michael E. O’Hanlon, Constanze Stelzenmüller, David Wessel, Alejandra Rocha, Sophie Roehse, Mallika Yadwad
December 26, 2024