“On Tuesday, October 1 [2002], [President] Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney met with a dozen members of the House International Relations Committee in the White House Cabinet Room. ‘We cannot let history judge us and ask where was George W. Bush and Dick Cheney …People out there say you cannot fight in Afghanistan and win in Iraq,’ Bush continued. ‘Defeating two enemies is very difficult, but we will do it.’ ”
– Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Pages 190-191