“Nearly 52 million Americans watched the prime-time speech [State of the Union address] on Tuesday, January 29 [2002]… [President Bush] devoted one sentence to North Korea, one to Iran, and five to Iraq. ‘States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil,’ Bush said, ‘arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.’ He pledged, ‘I will not wait on events while dangers gather.’ ”
– Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 92