“The results of the November 5 [2002] congressional elections further encouraged the Anabasis team [the covert CIA operation to topple Saddam’s regime]–and anyone else hoping for war [in Iraq]. The Republicans enlarged their margin in the House and regained control of the Senate. ‘It was pretty much everything [President] George W. Bush wanted,’ CNN political correspondent Candy Crowley told viewers after the results were in.”
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 157