Regarding the war in Iraq, National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice helped conceive it and was one of its chief advocates, and when the president [Bush] finally asked her, point-blank in the Oval office in December 2002, if he should take the country to war, she said yes.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page xxiv