” ‘We know that the president [Bush] wants to keep North Korea out of the way so he can concentrate on Iraq,’ a senior British official in close consultations with the White House noted in January 2003. ‘They have remitted the issue to State [Department]…so that it does not get in the way’ of the plans for Saddam Hussein.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 425