” ‘Regime change in Iraq is the policy of the current [Bush] administration, just as it was the policy of its predecessor,’ he [former Chief of Staff James A. Baker III] wrote in the New York Times [on August 25, 2002]. ‘That being the case, the issue for policymakers to resolve is not whether to use military force to achieve this, but how to go about it. The only realistic way to effect regime change in Iraq is through the application of military force.’ But before taking unilateral action, Baker wrote, the United States should take its case to the UN Security Council for a vote on the many resolutions Saddam had violated.”
– Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 379