On August 25, 2002, former Secretary of State James Baker published an article in The New York Times. “…Baker did not directly oppose war with Iraq, but he urged the president [Bush] to seek a new UN Security Council resolution requiring Iraq to submit to no-warning inspections and ‘authorizing all necessary means to enforce it,’ presumably including force. ‘Although the United States could certainly succeed, we should try our best not to have to go it alone, and the president should reject the advice of those who counsel doing so,’ Baker continued. By that, he meant [Vice President Dick] Cheney.”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 210