“…Bill Clinton, the president-elect, spoke to Tom Friedman of the New York Times in January [15] 1993 and suggested that the United States would not work for Saddam’s ouster and that relations could improve even if he remained in power. ‘Based on the evidence that we have, the people of Iraq would be better off if they had a different leader. But my job is not to pick their rulers for them. I always tell everybody I’m a Baptist. I believe in deathbed conversions. If he wants a different relationship with the United States and with the United Nations, all he has to do is change his behavior.’ ”
– Richard N. Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice, Page 155