10/12/2001

” ‘If we don’t use [the 9/11 attacks] as the moment to replace Saddam after we replace the Taliban, we are setting the stage for disaster,’ Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and a member of the group [Defense Policy Board], said in an interview.”

 – Elaine Sciolino and Patrick E. Tyler, “Some Pentagon Officials and Advisers Seek to Oust Iraq’s Leader in War’s Next Phase,” The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2001