“On January 17, 2003, two months before the war began, [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas] Feith called Jay Garner, a retired lieutenant general, and asked him to take charge of postwar Iraq. It wouldn’t be for long, Feith said, perhaps for just ninety days after the war. By then, Feith predicted, an Iraqi government would be formed and an American ambassador would be dispatched to Baghdad.”
– Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Page 29