An article in The San Jose Mercury News on October 13, 2002, written by former U.S. ambassador Joe Wilson “argued that [President] Bush was being confrontational, wrapping his obvious smash-Saddam desires within a thin argument on WMDs, and that the United Nations was not taking a hard enough line on a dictator who had flouted many of its resolutions.”
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 152