8/26/2002

During an August 26, 2002 speech in Nashville, Tennessee, to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vice President Dick Cheney said, regarding the use of U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq: ” ‘a return of inspectors would provide no assurance whatsoever of [Hussein’s] compliance with U.N. resolutions.’ ”

 – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 408