If Hussein Is Ousted What Next Bush

Juan Cole 09/19/2002

If Hussein is ousted, what next?

Bush team wants to set up democracy; critics say forced change will only create instability

By Cameron McWhirter / The Detroit News

(based in part on an interview with Juan Cole, w/ quote).

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page