Secretary of State Colin “Powell was set to go before the United Nations on February 5, 2003, to make the WMD intelligence case for war, and [Vice President Dick] Cheney wanted him to look at the argument his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, had assembled charging a link between Saddam and al Qaeda. Powell…refused to include it in his speech. …He planned to talk only about the potential for an Iraq-al Qaeda link.”
– Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Pages 120-121