In an interview conducted by Nicholas Lehman that was printed in The New Yorker on February 17, 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, articulating the rationale for an Iraq invasion, said: ” ‘[T]here have always been three fundamental concerns. One is weapons of mass destruction, the second is support for terrorism, the third is the criminal treatment of the Iraqi people.’ ”
– Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 608