“In a [December 7] 1998 article for the New Republic, [former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul] Wolfowitz wrote, ‘Toppling Saddam is the only outcome that can satisfy the vital U.S. interest in a stable and secure Gulf region, because, to a degree unique among contemporary tyrannies, the Iraqi regime is Saddam Hussein. …The vast majority of Iraqis want him out, though only those with a death wish say so openly. We must help them.’ ”
– Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page 148