On the campaign trail on October 29, 2004, “Calling attention to presidential elections scheduled in Iraq in January [2005], [President] Bush told voters, ‘Think how far that country has come from the days of torture chambers and mass graves. Freedom is on the march, and we’re more secure for it.’ Echoing his State of the Union address, Bush added, ‘Freedom is not America’s gift to the world. Freedom is the Almighty God’s gift to each man and woman in this world.’ ”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 320