10/15/2002

“In a classified three-page memo dated October 15, 2002, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld listed 29 things that could go wrong in an Iraq war. He reviewed it with the president [Bush] and the NSC [National Security Council]. …item Number 13 said, ‘U.S. could fail to find WMD on the ground.’ ”

 – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 99