“By February 10 [2003], more than 100,000 U.S. troops were in the Gulf region, including three aircraft carrier groups, with a fourth, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, on the way, and a fifth, the USS Kitty Hawk, scheduled to be deployed shortly. Three days later, the U.S. activated 39,000 more reservists.”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 289