” ‘There’s nothing that I’m prouder of than the liberation of Iraq,’ she [Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice] said without hesitation [during a State Department meeting in May 2008]. ‘Did we screw up parts of it? Sure. It was a big, historical episode, and a lot of it wasn’t handled very well. I’d be the first to say that.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Bob Woodward, The War Within, Page 421