According to the Israeli paper Haaretz, in June 2003, President Bush “reportedly told Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, ‘God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in [sic] the Middle East.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 138