On February 6, 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell told Congress: ” ‘The President [Bush] is examining a full range of options of how to deal with Iraq,’… Regime change was ‘something the United States might have to do alone. How to do it? I would not like to go into any of the details of the options that are being looked at, but it is the most serious assessment of options that one might imagine.’ ”
– Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 377