“On August 26 [2002], in Nashville [Tennessee], he [Vice President Dick Cheney] addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars: ‘There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us.’ He added that a return of United Nations weapons inspectors would lead to pointless delay in the face of imminent peril. ‘Time is not on our side,’ he said.”
– Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 58