11/21/2001

“A National Security Council meeting in the White House Situation Room was just finishing on Wednesday, November 21, 2001. ‘I need to see you,’ the president [Bush] said to [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld… ‘What kind of a war plan do you have for Iraq? How do feel about the war plan for Iraq?’ “

 – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 1