4/9/2003

“At 11:27 a.m. [on April 9, 2003, President] Bush spoke with [Spanish President Jose Maria] Aznar. ‘The strategy [in Iraq] is paying off,’ the president said. …Two days earlier, they had bombed a restaurant where they believed Saddam and his sons were, though they had not yet seen proof that any survived the first night’s attacks. ‘I personally believe we’ve killed Saddam Hussein twice. I think we killed the real guy the first day and yesterday we killed the fake.’ ”

 – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 408