“In a newspaper interview [with The San Francisco Chronicle on February 23, 2002], [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz said the United States ‘could not wait for proof beyond a reasonable doubt [regarding the link between Iraq and al Qaeda]‘ because, when there was a possibility of weapons of mass destruction being used, to wait for proof was ‘fundamentally intolerable.’ ”
– Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pages 13-14