2/1/2002

“On Friday, February 1 [2002], three days after the State of the Union speech that [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld later considered ‘not particularly in my area,’ he had [Central Command leader General Tommy] Franks back at the Pentagon….Franks told him he now had a war plan for Iraq that could be executed as a unilateral US-only invasion.”

 – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 96