On March 17, 2003, President Bush “ordered Saddam to leave Iraq within forty-eight hours or face an attack. ‘Should Saddam Hussein choose confrontation,’ he had the audacity to add, ‘the American people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war, and every measure will be taken to win it.’ “
– Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush, Page 107