His conclusion:
This review of the evidence shows that the containment was limited to conventional military efforts at best. Saddam Hussein was not only seeking a means to attack American interests around the world, his regime had already worked with al Qaeda in an effort to launch a terrorist attack using weapons of mass destruction. If this is containment that is "working well", what would containment that was failing look like?
Recall that in 1994, even with Saddam "in his box," we had to deploy significant ground, air, and naval forces to respond to his massing of troops that appeared to be preparations for another invasion of Kuwait--just four years since his last invasion! If we ever lacked the ability to react in such a matter because of commitments elsewhere no matter how brief, Saddam might eventually have hit Kuwait again.
And with France and China poking holes in the box while China held it steady, even the flimsy restraints that still held Saddam back would have broken up in short order had we not ended Saddam's regime. We would not have like what emerged.
