In a National Security Council meeting on August 5, 2002, “The president [Bush] looked at CIA Director [George] Tenet and asked him point-blank what the Iraqi people’s reaction would be to an American military overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Tenet didn’t skip a beat: ‘Most Iraqis will rejoice when Saddam is gone,’ the CIA director responded.”
– Dick Cheney, In My Time, Page 386