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The Road to War
Colin Powell before the UN
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Time: 9:00 AM — 10:30 AM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event
Notwithstanding a lukewarm report card from Chief Inspector Hans Blix and International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed al Baradei, members of the United Nations remain unpersuaded of the need for military action against Iraq. President Bush promised his secretary of state will make the case to the UN on February 5, but made no further gestures toward the international community. As Secretary Powell prepares to play Adlai Stevenson in the twenty-first century, the U.S. and Great Britain march ever closer to war.

What is the nature of the evidence and will it be good enough? Will a war on Iraq deal a deathblow to the post-World War II European-American alliance? How will a coalition of the willing be forged and how will it defeat Saddam? And what will Iraq’s neighbors do? Please join AEI for a preview of the American case and the days and weeks ahead. AEI scholars Danielle Pletka, Thomas Donnelly, and Reuel Marc Gerecht will join the presenters to moderate and answer questions.

 
Agenda
8:45 a.m. Registration
9:00 Interpreting the Evidence: The Intelligence Case against Iraq
  Presenter: Reuel Marc Gerecht, resident fellow at AEI focusing on the Middle East, terrorism, and intelligence; author of For Their Eyes Only (forthcoming); and former Middle Eastern specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency
  The European Reaction
  Presenter: Anne Applebaum, columnist and member of the editorial board for the Washington Post; expert on European politics and foreign policy
  Where Are We Now?: Military Preparations and the March to War
  Presenter: Richard Perle, AEI resident fellow; former assistant secretary of defense; and chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
  The Regional Balance of Power
  Presenter: Michael A. Ledeen, AEI resident scholar; expert on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East; and author of The War against the Terror Masters
10:30 Adjournment
 
 
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