1/30/2001

“The primary focus…[of the Bush Administration]–as national security adviser Condoleezza Rice framed it in January [30] 2001 at the first NSC [National Security Council] meeting of the Bush presidency–was on ‘how Iraq is destabilizing the region,’ and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.’ ”

 – Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, Page 22