“In a speech at the American Enterprise Institute on April 22 [2003], former House Speaker Newt Gingrich [R-GA]… [said] The State Department had engaged in ‘a deliberate and systematic effort to undermine the President’s [Bush’s] policies’ both before and during the invasion [of Iraq]… The past seven months have involved six months of diplomatic failure and one month of military success.’ Department activities since the war ‘indicate a pattern of diplomatic failure is beginning once again and threatens to undo the effects of military victory.’ ”
– Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 466