11/21/2001

“On November 21 [2001],–nine days after the fall of Kabul [Afghanistan] had sent thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters and supporters fleeing south–[President] Bush took aside [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, according to Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack, and asked him to draw up a fresh war plan for Iraq and to keep it a secret.”

 – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 81