Containing Saddam Has Failed; Regime Change Only Path to Disarmament

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) rejected the policy of containment in Iraq and advocated regime change as the only way to disarm Iraq at a CSIS Policy Forum on February 13. As McCain said, "After one war, twelve years, seventeen Security resolutions, various bombing campaigns, the threat of a new war, and the continuing expansion of Saddam's stockpile of devastating weaponry, placing hope in containment as a means to diminish Iraq's threat to its neighbors and the world flies in the face of history and ignores the obvious consequences of abdicating to his allies now."