In the second presidential debate of the 2000 election on October 11, 2000, George W. “Bush dismissed the prospect of toppling Saddam because it smacked of what he called ‘nation building.’ He chided the Clinton administration for not maintaining the multilateral anti-Saddam coalition that his father had built up in the Gulf War.”
– Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Pages 211-212