“[I Want] best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time. Not only UBL [Usama bin Laden]. Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.’ [quote from] Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s reaction to news of the September 11 attacks, as of 2:40 p.m. that day, according to notes taken by aides with him in the National Military Command Center (CBS News, ‘Plans for Iraq Attack Began on 9/11,’ report by David Martin, September 4, 2002)”
– Eds. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, The Iraq War Reader, Page 213