“[O]n March 19 [2003], at 10:16 p.m., President Bush announced his fateful decision [on attacking Iraq]. ‘My fellow citizens,’ the president began in an Oval Office address, ‘at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.’ ”
– Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 304