“In January [26] 1998, I [former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] joined a group of former national security officials in signing a letter to President Clinton that called for stronger action against Saddam’s regime. ‘The only acceptable strategy,’ our letter read, ‘is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction.’ For the short term, we endorsed military strikes on suspected weapons facilities. For the long term, we called for removing Saddam and his regime.”
– Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 417