As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “287. President Bush wrote in his memoir that he convened ‘the entire National Security Council’ on the morning of 19 March where he ‘gave the order to launch Operation Iraqi Freedom’.”
– Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, March 19, 2003