President bush’s administration was divided over the purpose and objectives of the war in iraq. although he was ignored, which member of his administration believed the conquest and stabilization of iraq would require hundreds of thousands of american soldiers and should not be undertaken without the support of america’s allies?

Secretary of State Colin Powell (2001-2005).

Powell supported Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq after the failure to find diplomatic alternatives, and has been consistent in his position on U.S. involvement in the Iraq War even after President Obama's election.

However, Powell made his best efforts to convince President Bush that the U.S. needed to appeal to the United Nations first, and was skeptical whether the U.S. had enough troops to successfully carry out the operation meant to suppress violence and end the civil war in Iraq.

can you explain it better

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)