In an op-ed piece he wrote that appeared in The Washington Post on February 13, 2002, former Assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Ken Adelman, wrote: “Hussein constitutes the number one threat against American security and civilization. Unlike Osama bin Laden, he has billions in government funds, scores of government research labs working feverishly on weapons of mass destruction–and just as deep a hatred of America and civilized free societies.’ ”
– Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, Pages 36-37