“On April 24, 2004–less than two weeks after the decision to stop offensive operations in Fallujah, and less than a week after the decision to stop all efforts to kill or capture [Iraqi theologian and political leader] Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf, President Bush addressed the Newspaper Association of America in Washington, D.C. ‘We’re not going to cut and run if I’m in the Oval Office,’ he stated, matter-of-factly.”
– Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle, Page 371