11/15/2002

“…in November 2002, Saddam Hussein succumbed to the pressure of a huge U.S. military buildup in Kuwait and the Bush administration’s increasingly strident rhetoric about the necessity of regime change in Baghdad. He permitted the UN inspectors to return and gave them more or less unfettered access to suspected weapons sites.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 74