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Peter Sluglett, DPhil, MA Biography
Title:	Professor of History at the University of Utah
Position:	Pro to the question "Should the US Have Attacked Iraq?"
Reasoning:	"I knew that, much as they might desire its [Saddam Hussein's regime] removal, the people of Iraq were not, and for the foreseeable future would not be, in a position to remove it by themselves. And for that reason, I supported an American invasion whose ostensible objective was to remove this vicious dictatorship, knowing full well, that Saddam Husayn [sic] owed his own survival throughout the 1980s to the support of an American administration which included such knights in shining armour as George Bush senior and his good friends Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Perhaps I was naive, but I could see no other way of removing Saddam Husayn." "Iraq After the US Invasion," International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World News Letter, Dec. 2003
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:	Experts Individuals with PhD's, JD's, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to the US - Iraq conflict. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to the US - Iraq conflict.
Involvement and Affiliations:	Professor of History, University of Utah, 1997-present Invited speaker, Inauguration Ceremony, Iraq Memory Foundation, Washington DC, 2005 Invited to review Middle East Program, University of Wisconsin, 2005 Reviewer, Graduate Student Fulbright Proposals, Washington DC, 2004 Reviewer, US Education Department, Research and Teaching Projects Related to the Contemporary Middle East, 2004 Visiting Fellow, All Souls' College, Oxford, 2003 Reviewer, Multi-Country Regional Research Fellowship Program, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Smithsonian Institution, 2002 Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah, 1994-2000 Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History, Durham University, 1993 Visiting Professor, History Department, University of California at Berkeley, 1992 Visiting Professor, History Department, and Gibb Memorial Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1991-1992 Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History, Durham University, 1974-1993
Education:	DPhil, Oxford University, 1973 MA, Cambridge University, 1970 MA, Oxford University, 1970 BA, Arabic and History, Cambridge University, 1966
Other:	None found
Quoted in:	1. What is the history of oil in Iraq?

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