“President Bush appeared to embrace the vision of Iraq as a catalyst for wide-ranging, positive change in the [Middle East] region when he asserted in a November [6] 2003 speech that ‘Iraqi democracy will succeed–and that success will send forth the news, from Damascus [Syria] to Teheran [Iran]–that freedom can be the future of every nation. The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.’ ”
– Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page 162