Appearing on ABC’s This Week on May 5, 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell said, regarding Iraq: ” ‘The United States reserves its option to do whatever it believes might be appropriate to see if there can be a regime change. …The U.S. policy is that regardless of what the [weapons] inspectors do, the people of Iraq and the people of the region would be better off with a different regime in Baghdad.’ ”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 243