Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf

A UN weapons inspector in Iraq.

The Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG) was a "bipartisan group whose members are prominent in U.S. international policy circles.... The 39-member group, organized as the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf, include[d] former U.S. Rep. Stephen Solarz of New York, who was a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Richard Perle, a former assistant defense secretary for international security policy." [1] In February 1998, the CPSG asked Clinton "to go beyond a military strike on Iraq and to help overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and replace his regime with a provisional government." According to the news report, however, "U.S. law and international opposition to such a plan would make it unlikely."[2]

The group based its request for a strike against Iraq on Saddam Hussein's refusal "to grant U.N. inspectors the right to conduct unfettered inspections of those sites where he is suspected of storing his still significant arsenal of chemical and biological munitions and his apparent determination never to relinquish his weapons of mass destruction." In a letter read at a Washington news conference, Solarz called upon Clinton "to adopt and implement a plan of action designed to finally and fully resolve this utterly unacceptable threat to our most vital national interests."

Additionally, Solarz stated that "if the force used against Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the punishing U.N. economic sanctions that have been in place for seven years haven't persuaded Hussein to cooperate with U.N. inspectors, it's unlikely that a new and 'much more limited' military strike will change the Iraqi leader's mind."

See also

• Citizens for a Free Kuwait
• Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
• Committee on the Present Danger
• Institute for Religion and Democracy
• Iraq Reconstruction Task Force (APCO Worldwide)
• Project for the New American Century

External links

• Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf Open Letter to the President, 19 February 1998

• Media Transparency 1991 file: $50,000 donated by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation "To support the administration of its program, conferences, briefings, and other events."
• Jim Lobe, War party gears up for showdown: Post-election agenda in US, November 6, 2002: re launch of Committee for the Liberation of Iraq in Washington.