“The next day [September 12, 2002] President Bush addressed the UN General Assembly for twenty-six minutes, most of them devoted to a description of Iraq as ‘a grave and gathering danger.’ He explained his feeling of urgency: ‘With every step the Iraqi regime takes toward gaining and deploying the most terrible weapons, our own options to confront that regime will narrow.’ ”
– Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, Page 60